Posts Tagged ‘Adirondacks’

Kelty K I D S FC 3 0 Frame Child Carrier

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Kelty K I D S FC 3 0 Frame Child Carrier




This top-of-the-line trail-based carrier has a unique five-point, adjustable childs harness for your youngster. This pack is easy to use and comfortable for parents and children and comes with patented technology.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Fantastic!
the Kelty 3.0 is just fantastic! I purchased it for an upcoming vacation in the Adirondacks where my husband and I want to take our baby hiking with us. He is 8months old and sometimes we take him for walks in it, instead of using the stroller. It’s a new view for him, he’s high up like we are, and in this, he isn’t in the ’sitting’ position, so it’s a nice change for him in that way too. It’s totally cmfortable for him and for us too. My husband is 6.2′ and I’m 5′2, and it’s completely and easily adjustable.

5 Stars great for my 8 month old!
arrived 3 days Less then the estimated delivery date stated! My baby fits perfectly and loves riding with the sun/rain shade on! He is one to kick his socks off so an enclosed bottom collects anything he drops. great padding. feels weightless. a lot of adjustment straps will Ensure a good fit. i started with everything large/loose and figured out my fit perfectly one notch at a time. Since there are going to be 2 of us using the backpack, I took a whiteout marker and marked my preferred Holes to make the switching easier! wonderfully padded for baby and even has a drool guard!

4 Stars Great Unit, but takes some getting used to.
I love this pack, but the first two/three times I used this to carry my 20lbs son, it felt a bit wobbly. The pictures in the ownern’s manual are a bit 1-dimensional so it took some looking at the picture, then back at the pack, and so forth. All in all, it is a great pack and worth every penny we spent. I wouldn’t recommend carrying more than just your child, unless you are used to carrying heavy packs around.

3 Stars buyeconomical has horrible return policy
Please be sure to review the return policy for buy.economical if you are purchasing this product from them. I will never use Amazon again

4 Stars Great Product, Bad Service
So I love this backpack and would tell other parents to purchase it. However, I did have trouble with Amazon over my purchase. They sent me the pack “new” but it was missing the hood cover; I bought it on sale and they wanted me to return the item and purchase a new one at the additional cost or they wanted me to keep it and they would give me back 24.00 of my purchase. To make a long story short I had to contact Kelty and they finally helped me out with it by sending me a new cover free of charge. I recommend if you buy this item to purchase it from a company other than Amazon since they were not helpful to me.

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MSR Dragonfly Fuel Pump

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

MSR Dragonfly Fuel Pump




For use with MSR DragonFly Stove, the MSR 11796 DragonFly Fuel Pump is a lightweight, reliable pump. It’s been redesigned to be easier than ever to use. It boasts full field-maintainability and offers noteworthy durability, as well as an auto-shutoff valve for increased safety.

About MSR
Mountain Safety Research (MSR) designs, manufactures, and markets innovative adventure gear for outdoor enthusiasts. The ever-growing MSR product line is most popular with mountaineers, backpackers, and campers. MSR is the industry leader in reliability and quality with every product it focuses on–tents, stoves, water filters, snowshoes, cookware, climbing gear, fuel, and related accessories. All of MSR’s products set the benchmark in performance throughout the specialty outdoor industry. MSR is also one of the most widely distributed brands in the outdoor industry and provides products to more than 1,200 specialty retailers in North America and export to more than 30 countries.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Much better than the original
May 2008 Adirondacks NY. Plan to hike 5 peaks in 3 days. Redfield, Gray, Marcy, Skylight and Cliff. 4′ Snow drifts still on trails. 6hr hike took 9hrs. Exhausted. No Redfield first day. MSR Dragonfly Stove works great. Original version w/ original pump. Dinner, Scotch, bed. Next morning evaluate trail to Gray & Mt. Marcy. NO GO. Crossing stream out of question. Too wide with still melting snow. Still 4′ drifts up main trail. Decide to hike Redfield and perhaps Cliff. Ready to eat breakfast. STOVE BROKEN!!!!!!!!! The old pump had cracked around the plunger coupling. Would not keep preasure. No stove, no eat, no hike. TRIP OVER.

I swore I would never take this stove into the wilderness ever again. Someone bought me an Amazon gift card and I decided to buy the new pump just to see if it was superior to the last. It was inexpensive enough to try it. Glad I did. Serious improvement from last version. The MSR Dragonfly is an excellent stove but the pump is the biggest concern because it is made of plastic. I bought another one as an on the trail back up. I wouldn’t go into the woods without the repair kit for the stove and the extra pump. Worked fine with the original Dragonfly stove and fuel canisters (which was a concern I had when buying it). LET ME REPEAT THAT SINCE I HAD A SERIOUS TIME FINDING ANY FEEDBACK OR INFORMATION THAT SPELLED THAT OUT CLEARLY ENOUGH:

THE NEW PUMP WORKS WITH THE OLD/ORIGINAL DRAGONFLY STOVE AND FUEL CANISTERS.

Hope that is a good enough review for those of you who are considering buying this pump.

5 Stars Huge improvement!
After many years of use, the original pump finally failed on a winter trip. It was very cold, and the stove’s fuel tube froze to the pump fitting, and completely cracked when I tried to remove it - basically rendering the pump useless.

This newly designed pump is fantasitc. It’s first trip was also in the winter, but even colder. Morning temps were zero degrees, in the sun! This pump (& stove) worked flawlessly. The material is better. The engineering is better. The overall performance is better. It’s even more ‘field’ serviceable than the previous unit.

5 stars indeed.

JG

5 Stars Better than origianl
I got this as a replacement part. This is much sturdier than the original — clearly an improvement since the original broke so easily.

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