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I've got to say my att LTE data speed over the last year or two has been screaming fast.

I need a pillow to sleep well, although I can get by with some rolled up fleece in a pinch. I use one of these: Cacoon Air Pillow. It weighs 3.8 oz and packs down pretty compact. It is fairly comfortable if I toy with the inflation. I picked mine up for a few bucks at the REI garage sale...

I picked up a pair of UV-3R+ radios off eBay the other day. Should be here any day now.

I use wide-mouth Nalgene bottles in cold weather and keep them in my pack at night. The wide mouth usually won't freeze over even when ice forms.

I had intended to do a bunch of snowshoeing over the Christmas break, but with the nice early cold weather and my 18 yr old having lots of free time, we have been ice climbing 4 times instead. Haven't needed snowshoes for any of the approaches we've done, but outdoors nonetheless. This morning...

Davy, Why no pad straps? Don't you seal your quilt down to your pad in cold weather? My quilt works great the way it is, but the way I thrash, I don't see the system working for me without them.

I'd be in on this on a 2m repeater, given a convenient evening. It's not that my license is recent or that I've never used it. I just don't do it enough to stay familiar with the equipment

For what it is worth, my foot box on the quilt never gets twisted up the way a sleeping bag did. I think it is because the foot box only comes up to the knees and it was the hips and shoulders twisting it up where that area is now attached to the pad, which is pretty firm.

Beautiful!

I guess I never realized REI's prices on food were ever good. I buy on sale online as well. I just view it as another form a food storage. Just bought 16 MH meals from some guy on BackpackingLight for $60 shipped. We will easily go through those this year.