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	<description>Outdoor Gear, Patents, and Outdoor Trips by Bob Shaver, Patent Attorney</description>
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		<title>Need to Resubscribe to continue getting email notices of blog posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 17:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the help of my daughter Ciera I am updating the blog to a format using the Squarespace platform.  This will require me wiping out all the present subscriptions. Turns out there are 55,000 of them, and I&#8217;m sure most of them are spam or outdated email addresses. I hope those who read the posts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>2016 John Muir Trail Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 02:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim and I hiked the JMT in 2016, with Luke and Ian Willnerd. This is a video of some of our pictures and videos, a sort of highlight video.  Jim put this together.]]></description>
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		<title>The Enchantments of the Stuart Range, Washington State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 23:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Marc Dilley sent me photos of a fall hike to the Enchantments, an alpine plateau surrounded by peaks in the Stuart Range of the Cascades, near Wenatchee Washington.   He and some friends hiked in to the Enchantments as a day hike, which most sane people do as a 4 or 5 day trip. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Micarta Knife</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Loveless is the guru of knife making, and he says that if you want a quality knife you don&#8217;t put wood handles on it. I finally tried his go-to handle, micarta. Micarta is resin with different kinds of material embedded in it, such as denim, canvas, linen or others. This is green linen, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Bribe your kids when Backpacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my oldest kids got old enough we started going backpacking.  I started a myth with them that I had put 2 pops in the outlet of various, or all, of the lakes in Washington.  As we hiked up the trail I would say to them that &#8220;those pops sure will be good!&#8221;  When we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>MountainSmith Mountain Shelter 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were able to spend 6 nights in the Sierra Nevada with the MountainSmith Mountain Shelter 2.   It was summer, windy at night, temps in the low 30s, and some cloudiness.  The elevation of our trip was 8000-11,000&#8242;. This shelter is a tarp held up by two hiking poles and 13 stakes.  I set it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Backpacking with Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get your whole family into backpacking, you can do what we did with our kids, Jim and Ciera. When Jim was 6 and Ciera 11 we took them on their first overnight backpack, a 2 mile hike to Baker Lake near Ketchum.  They carried their own packs, and we didn&#8217;t carry [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sawtooth Slowpoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a great backpack in the Sawtooghts of Idaho, one we called the Sawtooth Slowpoke.  We hiked 42 miles, with sufficient elevation gain and loss to count as a 50 mile hike for Boy Scout purposes.  The backpack was from Petit Lake at the south of the range, to Sawtooth lake at the north [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On-site trip report from Palisade Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 02:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got over Mather Pass when the rain hit.  We didn&#8217;t feel like hiking in the rain, so we set up our tents in the first trees we found. It rained for about an hour, then the sun came out. Jim and Ian left camp for a hike, and I sat in my chair and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking in the Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 15:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cooking when winter camping is different from cooking when backpacking.  My favorite setup is to make a bench seat, and sit on a foam pad, with another foam pad under the feet for insulation. Then cut a bench conveniently right in front of the chef on which to put the stove. Lay a thin plywood [&#8230;]]]></description>
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