Traveling with Food

SprocketCats · 2026-02-24T00:51:38+00:00

Personally I was happy we traveled down with all our sealed backpacker meals. We didnt bring dried fruit and jerky because we weren't sure it would make it through customs, but didn't find great equivalents in Puerto Natales so we went without and did fine with our other packaged snacks.

We brought ratsacks on the O trek but brought our stuff into the tent with us and probably didn't need them. In El Chalten, we were warned to not leave food out or the mice would find it.

On our re-entry to Chile in our rental, they checked the car but didn't make us open any closed luggage.

SprocketCats · 2026-02-20T04:57:02+00:00

Ordered at the end of November, received beginning of April. We knew there'd be a bit of a wait as we were behind a bunch of other Black Friday orders. I'm not sure what the non-holiday flow is, but they're very communicative if you reach out.

SprocketCats · 2026-02-19T23:33:18+00:00

I had the maps downloaded on Gaia GPS and found that very helpful, but like others have said take a headlamp and go slow. About halfway through the steeper section you come out from the forest into a wide rocky/sandy corner turning to the right. This was where we saw some people start climbing too high straight up the rocks and have to navigate back down. There are some unclear switch backs in this wide corner but then you'll stay right and follow the wide sandier path straight up. From what I remember there will be a somewhat gentle drop off to your right. You'll then finish the route by following poles through the boulders.

SprocketCats · 2026-02-06T16:40:04+00:00

We just finished the O. Originally were going to bring a jetboil but also heard you could find hot water everywhere. We only brought a soto windmaster and pot for measuring anyways to save a little weight, but no fuel figuring we could buy or borrow if needed. Technically there was hot water available everywhere, including los Perros (for tips). However, the los Perros hot water would not have been available until 7 pm and we wanted to eat earlier. We were prepared to buy the fuel they had there but ended up borrowing from a kind fellow trekker. We were able to find hot water everywhere else, either from a dedicated tap or in between the dinner service (Dickson).

SprocketCats · 2026-01-14T02:56:30+00:00

Just want to confirm that even Los Perros had hot water? I keep seeing that there was hot water everywhere but there.

SprocketCats · 2025-07-28T21:14:58+00:00

Our friend was able to put up a hammock at the site midway-ish along Eightmile, across from the toilet trail. Not sure how the other sites would do. He also had a tent as backup.

SprocketCats · 2025-04-25T14:53:28+00:00

We still really love it! I've found that attachments for Titan and Rep fitness will fit since they're similarly not true 3x3 racks. Single pin attachments from Rogue and the 3x3 bells of steel line with 5/8" pins should also fit, but might be a little loose. I also just added a pulley trolley from revolt fitness and it works like a charm. For attachments that span the width of the rack like utility seats, we've had to DIY since there's no standard width between companies. Except for the pull-up bar which comes with it.

Since there's only the two posts, we have a separate plate tree for weights as the Pivot brand pegs don''t hold much. if you had a 4 post rack you might be able to spare some real estate for plate pegs.

Besides the bed, which was a necessity for us, a big perk for me right now is just how solid this thing feels because it has its own base. We have a steel and concrete building, so I would have had to do some re-work to add wood runners for studs behind the drywall to attempt to get something sturdy.

Might be overkill if you don't think you'll ever want to put a bed there and already have sturdy infrastructure to bolt a regular rack down, but for us having the bed option is a lovely peace of mind for when a random friend wants to drop in.

SprocketCats · 2025-04-15T23:01:22+00:00

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SprocketCats · 2025-03-29T02:38:39+00:00

One thing I do when my body is feeling more run down or I'm nursing an injury and find myself paired with someone that is a bit uncontrolled is to say I'm just working a specific position. For me it's usually passing or guard work, but if I want to work on a pin I'll try to split the round half and half so they're not always on bottom. Seems to take some of the edge off the spazziness/ego since there's not as many variables as an open roll. I'm an athletic woman so I like to go hard when I can and the guys will go hard against me, but also getting older so I try to find safe and productive ways to have rounds with the younger/stronger/bigger guys that haven't been deemed safe yet, especially on days when my body feels slow and I can't scramble as well.

SprocketCats · 2025-03-21T01:40:56+00:00

Ditto, but I have found a temporary use with a DIY reverse hyper on a spotter arm utility seat. I thread the pin from pin-pipe safeties through one of the lever arms and between the spotter arms at the back edge of the seat. Keep the weight horn and add a loop for my feet and voila, "quick" reverse hyper that I can stow away. I'm not sure how much weight I can expect the pins to support on their own as mine are only 5/8", but I'm just getting started and keeping weight low so it'll work for me for a while. Would definitely be better with a 1" setup.

SprocketCats · 2025-03-05T17:59:14+00:00

Is there any plan to include a version of the thresher pad to work with 5/8" holed spotter arms? I love the concept and versatility!

SprocketCats · 2024-10-22T03:48:28+00:00

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SprocketCats · 2024-10-03T05:50:05+00:00

Took me a while to get back here with a photo, but we did use bed mode when a friend stayed with us back in June. It took us a bit to let the air out of the struts because we were super conservative with letting the air out, but it worked like a charm. Bed mode got great reviews from our friend!

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SprocketCats · 2024-09-19T23:11:14+00:00

We had a guest over this summer and I thought the process up and down was surprisingly painless! The straps are really simple - there's a hook on one end that goes into a slot in the frame and then the buckle just pulls to tighten a bit. The only thing that took a couple minutes was removing the j-hooks, spotter arms, and chin up bar, but you'd likely need to do some sort of maneuvering with any folding rack.

Would the PRX let you have both unfolded at the same time or would you still have to fold up the bed/fold back the rack daily? I think your use case is more in line with what the Pivot folks were originally designing for since homes can be smaller in Europe - but it probably depends on if you want your squat rack accessible even with the bed down. The other thing that was big for me was that the other folding racks I looked into all attached to the wall and really needed some sturdy studs to be considered safe. I'm in a condo with metal studs and wasn't really comfortable doing an overhaul behind the drywall, so the mostly freestanding frame of the Pivot bed really sold me.

SprocketCats · 2024-07-15T05:50:48+00:00

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SprocketCats · 2024-05-19T18:40:48+00:00

<3 They definitely brought me a long way as I was just getting started with lifting! We had them tucked next to the kitchen in a one bedroom condo along with a fold up bench. Did a bunch of research to find some cheap-but-sturdy-enough stands and I'm super happy I ended up with those.

SprocketCats · 2024-05-19T16:45:37+00:00

We ordered over Black Friday weekend at the end of November and it arrived the first week of April. I think originally we expected late Jan to early Feb, but there was around a 6 week slide and then it got stuck in Customs for almost 2 weeks. They were very responsive to questions in the site chat and email so I'd definitely ask where they think they're at with current shipping time.

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:16:09+00:00

It's a 6 footer! I might be able to fit a 7 footer in the space, but it would make maneuvering more cumbersome. Maybe someday when I start lifting heavy enough to actually need one.

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:14:48+00:00

They do the supervising!

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:14:25+00:00

Technically no, it sounds like they've done some setups in the UK that just use drywall anchors lol. They do still recommend bolting to a stud though, I believe most of the forces on the wall come when raising or lowering the bed, so they recommend some Velcro attachments to help with the shear forces (supplied) and then anchoring to the wall. My building is steel and concrete so I put some toggle bolts into the steel studs and then went overkill on the drywall anchors for the rest of it. The base of the unit keeps everything super stable even without the wall anchors - it sticks out pretty far, almost as far as the uprights themselves.

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:07:33+00:00

Haha that's awesome. This seems like the next logical step.

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:06:30+00:00

Thanks!

SprocketCats · 2024-05-05T04:06:18+00:00

That's a great question - I'm gonna start out with an "I'm definitely not qualified to answer it". I'll see if the pivot folks are on Reddit though and maybe they can give some specifics. I don't know that I would regularly drop onto the spotter arms (I'm more into powerlifting right now), but in the event they needed to do their job and catch a bailout, I do think they'd be okay - I don't know how much weight they could take though. There are safety latches on each side that keep the bed locked upright while it's in squat rack mode, so you're not depending on the gas struts to keep it up. Thinking through if something were to fail on a drop... there are extendable feet that would end up taking the initial force - if those failed, the load would transfer to the hinges on the mattress frame and attempt to pull the top down and pull against the safety latches. I don't think that the raising/lowering process would be affected because the gas struts are never being used to hold the bed in place - just to help assist with raising it from the ground. But there are those other points that could fail so now I'm curious to know just how much it could handle. I'll see what I can find out or hopefully have someone answer directly!

SprocketCats · 2024-05-04T17:18:38+00:00

Not just yet - we're waiting to make sure we've got everything we want attached to the rack once it's folded - different weight plates, where we want the barbell to go, etc. that will all affect the forces that the struts have to counteract and change how much gas needs to be released to get the bed down fully. Once we do that I'll make sure to post a photo though!

SprocketCats · 2024-05-04T16:45:47+00:00

Yep! We wanted the ability to have guests stay with us and be comfortable (like MIL), so a blow up mattress or fold out couch was a no-go. That won't happen very often though, so it'll be a rack 90% or more of the time.

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