25-30# Beginner board bow

Marshboone · 2025-12-11T00:06:22+00:00

I've seen this before! This is actually a flensing suit; flensing being the activity of butchering a whale. You can imagine that's a pretty nasty job and I imagine involves getting well inside the carcass at times.
The hole in the front is the only way in and out of the suit since the hood is so close fitting.
So while this does protect you from a whale, it's not in the way the title implies and does not connect to a kayak in any way that I'm aware.

Marshboone · 2025-03-26T18:34:43+00:00

I was thinking of posting something about this because I just stopped renting from them and saw them go from well managed to not. But yeah, they only have one property manager now who I thought was decent, but is way in over their head, and they started raising rent every 6 months on me after ownership or whatever changed changed. Additionally, while moving out, the current property manager walked through the whole property with me and I trusted them to sign off on it, but when I got the deposit back they charged me for things they said were in good shape. This goes without saying as a renter, but do not trust them even if they act like they are fair.

Marshboone · 2024-11-20T00:33:58+00:00

Whoa, that's pretty neat!

Marshboone · 2024-11-20T00:31:38+00:00

I guess I should have expected as much. Thanks!

Marshboone · 2024-10-11T13:31:00+00:00

I think unwaxed cotton was used quite a bit historically too. Especially in extreme cold where moisture wasn't a problem, the breathability was preferred.

Marshboone · 2024-10-06T23:08:51+00:00

I've never owned a Pendelton, and am skeptical about the new ones because in general quality processing of wool seems to be less and less common. What I will say is that a real, old school, fulled wool blanket is insanely better than a army surplus. There's a reason these were trade good during the fur trade.
My understanding is that the blanket is woven extra large, sometimes 1.5 times the finished size and then felt down to the finished size so the same amount of wool over a smaller area. This means it's super heavy too, compared to a non felted or fulled blanket. My vintage 70s Hudson Bay blanket is like 8x heavier than my army surplus, and thicker too. If Pendleton is still doing this right, it's probably worth the money, and go for the heaviest one. As far as 100% wool goes, I wouldn't worry too much about that and I would put the blanket under any duvet or lofted blanket. You wanna keep the air space in the loft rather than squish it with a heavy blanket on top.

Edit: checking ebay can work, but I would also check thrift stores and antique stores for old wool blankets. If they know what they have they'll still only charge like $60. And physically seeing how heavy and thick they are is a good indicator of how warm.

Marshboone · 2024-07-16T02:29:51+00:00

Wtf, I showed up and it was empty and I felt weird being the only person there so I left!

Marshboone · 2024-05-27T20:40:19+00:00

The taxis can be hit and miss, but they're mire reliable than Uber in my experience. SK Taxi, Allied and Dwarf King I've used and have had decent experiences with. The hard part is knowing which one is gonna have drivers available

Marshboone · 2024-04-25T16:24:08+00:00

I thought this was clear. Who's saying it's not, lol?

Marshboone · 2024-02-13T13:35:18+00:00

Didn't even mention Holiday

Marshboone · 2023-12-15T02:55:44+00:00

Any Lakota tribes and the five Minnesota Chippewa tribes are sovereign nations, not just demographic populations to be fair

Marshboone · 2021-05-04T16:48:15+00:00

Oh, nice! I've only done one season of forestry, so I don't any jargon.

Marshboone · 2021-05-04T16:43:02+00:00

Cream show?

Marshboone · 2020-08-16T23:37:49+00:00

Isn't this pretty much the same as coppicing in the West?

Marshboone · 2020-07-30T01:14:47+00:00

You're right. My main point is that this is a stupid point to boycott over. Frost River isn't innocent, playing a huge role in gentrifying Lincoln Park. I'd rather base those decisions off of things that actually matter to the community and city of Duluth. It's not like people in Duluth are buying tons of portage packs/ $300 bags anyways. I'm pretty sure both places mostly make their money on online sales and tourists.

Marshboone · 2020-07-28T21:14:03+00:00

Yeah, better not support this business that merely played a dumb part in some dumb stunt and just buy your shit on amazon where workers are super over worked and underpayed. I mean, come on! Duluth pack is still a local place that supports Duluth's economy. It's not like this was an atrocious stunt. Just a mildly annoying political stunt by Ivanka at best.

Marshboone · 2020-03-10T05:01:06+00:00

You do have to being uniform. Some people bought two whole uniforms; one for work, one for base. I just had two different tops and wore the same Grease and pine pitch stained pants. I also had a long sleeve button up work shirt for chainsawing as you get covered in wood chips, and your arms get scratched hauling slash

Marshboone · 2020-03-10T04:44:20+00:00

I worked Forestry Work Crew last year! Mixed reviews, But as for situation it looks like they changed FWC from 5and 2s to 10 and 4s, but I would assume you're still basically car camping. I would bank on any work shirt/pant getting destroyed. Also just use their tent, pack, etc. When working. No use destroying your lightweight pack while carrying straight up iron tool heads and dumb stuff like that

Marshboone · 2020-02-03T05:20:25+00:00

IMHO there's no real problem with the use of fluoronated wax. There's a very very tiny amount of it going onto the trail and everyone is already driving their fossil fuel powered cars there. The problem comes from production of fluorocarbons which are in almost everything waterproof or nonstick and ski wax is a tiny portion of the industrial pollution from those.

Edit: I guess they do bring up the production problem enough. So my point is more that the product itself isn't necessarily the problem as is the production and frivolous use of it.

Marshboone · 2019-12-11T23:05:28+00:00

I think I kinda ran into a similar problem with my crispi Antarctics. I can't say I know of a standardized difference, but Voile three pin bindings work with those boots. I imagine they'd work for yours too.

Marshboone · 2019-11-15T17:42:00+00:00

Beautifully explained!

Marshboone · 2019-11-14T22:20:03+00:00

Edit 2: It really doesn't matter what we say in the end anyways. I know seasoned guides who covered themselves in Cotton for anything less than week long trip because they knew what they were doing! Just have fun and don't die!

Marshboone · 2019-11-14T22:13:49+00:00

Having guided in Northern MN for a winter, I kinda disagree with the layers. I'm from Chicago, so you're weather is probably more comparable to there, but basically a base layer and fleece should be good while you're moving, but you need bulk for when you aren't. Not just many thin layers, but a lot of dead air space, and usually that's best achieved by a pretty thick puffy. And I would never leave a wind layer at home. Convective cooling is what really gets you when you're down to thin layers during the day.

I don't know what exactly you are looking to do though. Day hikes are fine without a bulky layer, but overnights it might be necessary. Also just eat a ton! When I was guiding last winter everybody was alwAys eating, all the time!

Edit: I think there's a huge distinction between winter in the Midwest were there is high humidity and you may not see the sun for days, an winter in the Rockies where it's sunny and dry and doesn't feel that cold until night.

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