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I bought the Gila backpack in X-21 and think it cost around $360. The new bag (no frame, harness, or belt) cost $270. If I like it, I'll sell the existing X-21 bag that's on it. If a friend of mine were to start backpacking and only wanted one backpack, I'd probably suggest they buy the Unaweep 4,800 in Ultra 400 and call it a day. It has a 79L main bag, an 800ci pocket on the front, and gargantuan side pockets. Remove the stays and you're down to 2lbs 12oz and the pack will handle tremendous weight very comfortably. These packs were designed around packing out elk so they can carry heavy loads. This bag could accommodate a multiday adventure. If someone wanted one backpack for everything, but went on week-long hikes, the Unaweep 6,300 would do everything and serves as a day pack too. My Unaweep 6,300 setup has a main bag that is 103L, 800ci face pocket, and same side pockets. That setup would weigh 3.0lbs in Ultra 400, which is less weight than most people's day bag, and the main bag rolls down into nothing so it is compact. https://seekoutside.com/lightweight-backpacks/

Kiwakwe: Thanks for the files! The second/third files sound more like our typical yapping critters (when the crowd kicks in.) They get wound up hearing sirens. I don't think I usually hear a lone WOOooo first, our crowd usually just starts yapping all at once. I don't recall them ever sounding wolf like. The two week span of the calls had one extremely loud call first then very muted, brief yapping and then they simmered down. The AHh-OOoo was odd, though. Laughing here. Never Ahh before Ooo! Generation after generation, I do like hearing them. I also need to hear a Whippoorwill every year or I worry that they lost their habitat. : ) Foxhill: I heard foxes when I lived in Wisconsin. I had a mom and two kits hanging around my house. Will never forget those yellow eyes, they would stand outside my door or window and stare at me. They actually seemed cat-like to me. Good memories! Rarely see coyotes here.

I watched the entire presentation. Steve is a funny guy and speaks his mind. I searched the 'community page' looking for the " scientific study" and found nothing. I am bothered by several details / lack thereof. Candela is a term used in human vision. Lumens is a term used for visible light. They are not used for infrared light. IR light is expressed in terms as micro watts per square centimeter or photons per square centimeter. How and what did they measure on their 3 night study??? 'Manual flash' is listed as the light source. The flash emits ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic noise. Animals are very good at hearing what humans can't. 'Complete darkness' is a relative value. The humans were at a facility with ambient lighting / backlighting. Starlight comes in around 500---550nm which is close to our and many animals optimum sensitivity. The difference between day and night visual acuity is size of the eye and pupil dialation. Humans have evolved to be creatures of the day so we don't do well at night. A healthy human rod can react to one photon. That lab test doesn't mean that you are immune to stepping on LEGOs or kicking a table leg in the middle of the night. We suck at night. I will wait for the 'scientific study'. Edgar Jenkins is a retired nuclear physicist who has comments about Sasquatch at civilian and military nuclear facilities. Reports about visits and trespassing have been made for many decades. The details are mostly classified. It seems that they like military facilties that have nukes. I don't know. I think the Sasquatch just want to re-crystalize their tired and worn out Klingon dilithium crystals ----- loooking for nuklear wessels.

This popped up on my Facebook Feed... Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sasquatch-triangle-conference-2022-tickets-161395527367 Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3975886819176595

I was born and raised here, on the shores of Lake Nipissing. (pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable, not like you're relieving yourself)

Had an old military trainer who was Navajo dub me and another guy from Appalachia in our group "skinwalkers". Never knew why, he didn't explaine it, just hated doing night drills with us. Found out why about 4 years ago, apparantly the real Skinwalkers (bad medicine men of the Navajo tribe) will use animal calls to communicate to one another. like coyote howls, owl hoots, and other nocturnal creatures. We would designate calls to specific movements or to give all clears and alerts. It stuck with me from from those days, its been my online tag since 2004.