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Just put it on your next order. There will be a next order. There is always a next order...

Just out at the local BSA campsite helping to teach a climbing instructors course. It's good to be back out, it's been too long.
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Everyone is different, and my light blanket might be better than yours. Assuming your quilt is good below 50 then with the right blanket you'll be fine.

Btw, Orange please!

The economics on yellow is tough enough. I know Dutch had to make significant investment and orders miles of it in order to make the math work. Stocking several colors would be a tougher...

The new site will be so fast that our orders will complete 2 weeks before we login..

The wear is almost certainly from the buckle. I haven't seen any wear from Dutch clips alone.

Kevlar is extremely resistant to chemicals, the PDF above is the definitive authority on the subject....

You guys are going to love this stuff - I don't want to say never, but I can't see any significant progress beyond this webbing. At 1500 lbs it's about as low as we'd want to go with kevlar. The...

My diy winter UQ is that length and is effectively full length for me when it's dialled in and I hang on the diagonal. I'm 5'10".

To be fair, I didn't say more affordable than Tyvek, just affordable...



Dutch Xenon Sil, RipstopByTheRoll Membrane Sil or Sil Poly. 1.1-1.3 oz/yd^2 (finished weight) for $6-9 a linear yd....

I'd be most worried about my dog nicking them. :)

I don't trim selvage. The pin wheels are so close to the edge that they are always on the seam or hem.

You'd better believe it! The elves are hard at it this year. I placed an order at midday today, it was shipped 2 hours later...inconceivable.

Yeah, it was its first trip out of the house too. I checked Dutch's store for a backpacking metal detector for a few weeks before just buying another.

Hanging in the chill of the night
Gazing at the stars so bright
The woods are serenely still
Whilst we hangers seek our thrill
The thoughts of bears passing by
Might make us all wonder why
We...

Nice find, but I was hoping that it was my Spyderco Manix2 LW S110v...

Down quilts pack well. My old Kelty pack has a zipped compartment so I don't need to unpack everything else to get to it. I've managed to get my winter quilts in there, so summer backpacking gear...

A couple of minutes typically, once I've found the spot. All my suspension stays attached, and I use lazy slug tubes. Dutch clips on my webbing. I clip around the tree at the foot end first,...

I just plugged the numbers into the the usual UQ calculator and for a quilt of that size with 1" baffles and 3.5 max baffle height, 30% overstuffed with 800FP down, it returns 13oz of down, total...

Tyvek is a water resistant vapor retarder, one primary use being to help keep bulk water out of a building whilst allowing moisture in the framing to escape thus preventing mould. Its water...

That's a great looking quilt in my favorite color scheme! What's your design temperature and average loft?

I wouldn't use silnylon as a ground tarp - it tends to be treacherously slippery and can be easily punctured by sharp objects on the ground. I'd suggest tyvek for that use, also available from Dutch

Holy smokes. 10s to do what takes me 5 minutes manually. That is seriously 😎

Use your pads to start, saving the cost of the UQs. Watch Woot for tarp deals, you can sometimes get two diamond tarps for about $45 shipped. Start with external netting to save money. A tarp and...

Kevlar 1 Tree 0.

Aside from the financial side of EN13537 testing there is another very practical consideration that makes it all but useless for hammock quilts - it assumes a mummy design with integrated hood. ...

The R-value of the mat itself doesn't change, but the thermal properties of what is underneath it is now highly variable and probably worse than the ground would be.

I reviewed the Deuce Scoop in another thread here: "That-moment-when"

Why throw it away? Home Depot and Lowes sell empty coated paint cans that are quite capable of storing thinned Silnet.

Dyneema has a strength to weight ratio about 1.5 times that of Kevlar, so based on their published strength that Sailrite webbing is unlikely to be lighter than the Kevlar that we are using.

This is what Dutch's camo looks like in the wild. The camo in your first post looks like it might be that pattern. It's very similar anyway.
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I'd try to find ways to expand pack capacity before using compression sacks on down quilts. Time to loft is a significant factor for quilt performance and the more compressed quilts are, the longer...

Hey, thanks for the shout-out. I noticed a keen resemblance in the baffle design. :) I have learned so much from quilts built by other forum members here, it really is inspirational. Chances are...

But only by about 18". :)

If you were serious then fiberglass would be a better option. although must less conductive than aluminum, carbon fiber is still a conductor. The extremely thin layer of epoxy or polyester resin...

I'm going to order me one of those new fangled lightweight copper faraday hammocks from Dutch. Rumors are that the magnesium ultralight version didn't hold up well in testing...

I usually find my hammock extremely comfortable, but on one trip this summer I tweaked my lower back (a 3 peak day with 35 lbs of pack) and the hammock didn't help. Placing my pillow under my lower...

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I wouldn't sweat that too much - as someone else observed earlier, in an UQ the lowest point where the down wants to settle to is exactly where you lie. My main reason for preferring predominantly...

All non silicon-/urethane- coated nylons and polyesters breathe. With synthetic insulation you have the luxury of choice because you don't need calendared fabric. Calendared fabric will give you...

My favorite "Dutch" suspension is Kevlar webbing larks-headed to whoopie slings at one end, with a Dutch Clip on the other. It is both lightweight and user-friendly - the straps, whoopies and clips...

I spent some time this year pondering over that question, and decided on a hybrid design when I designed my TQ. I'm considering something similar for my next UQ too.

New Argon summer quilt

If that's the stuff I think it is, its not very resistant to tearing. Protecting the edges would help, and with care it might be usable for a while.

CCF just means that it is Closed Cell Foam. ...

You're not going to get there with mule tape. Mule tape is specifically designed for pulling wire through conduit so the design criteria include as low a cross-sectional area as possible. They...

I don't think you'd get double the performance though. It's an interesting question to ponder. Your inner and outer fabrics would (being so light) easily conform to the shape of the bats if gravity...

Well, if I were to buy down from downlinens, the choice is obvious. There is no choice, just buy the WR down.

But suppose I already had a stash of 800FP down, including some already in quilts.

First off, Welcome!

Nice color choice and nice quilt. Before you panic about that down, have you tried conditioning it? Put the quilt in a front-load tumble drier on a cool setting for 30...

Time to revisit this. The differential between non-WR and WR down from downlinens is only $5 a lb. Yes, you read that correctly, 800FP is $120, WR 800FP is $125. That, and the massive proliferation...

As a material Kevlar degrades about twice as fast as polyester when exposed to UV light, for a given thickness of thread. That final clause is important because the thicker the thread, the longer it...

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