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Posted by ministercreek on March 24, 2008 at 3:42:06 pm EDT
In reply to Re: Looking for a new sleepng bag posted by kutenay on March 23, 2008 at 7:54:56 am EDT

Kutenay, I'm glad you can see my point about certain "attitudes" in various gear shops. That is my point exactly! That is why I do most of my shopping online-to avoid these types of "attitudes" I described in my previous post.

Don't worry-you will find these same "attitudes" with many of the posters on backpacker.com, on their forums that is. I had my share of "run-ins" with these type of people, one person in particular.

At any rate, in response to Bill's post, perhaps REI is becoming a "BIG name brand" (I'm starting to see that myself). However I only own an two-person (in reality though it's an one person tent) Quarter Dome. Other than that I don't own any other REI brand gear, save it be for some hiking socks. To be frank, most of their brand gear doth not appeal to me.

You really think Diamond Brand is BIG name brand? They don't even manufacture tents for the general public anymore, sad :( to say. They have gone to Government contract work, under the new owner Will Gay. It is true when the company was under the Kemps they did manufacture backpacking tents. I owned several. In fact, my very first "real" tent was an standard 2 person Free Spirit model. My first true 4 season tent was their Mountain Home model. http://www.trailspace.com/gear/diamond-brand/mountain-home-2/review/4868/ Excellent tents, though a little "old school" when compared to todays high-tech models. All of my Diamond Brand tents were made in South Korea, though they did continue to manufacture the Free Spirit Heavy Duty models in their North Carolina factory. Plus I would hardly consider ALPS Mountaineering to be BIG name.

No, I am not an minister. My user name came from the Minister Creek Trail I hiked in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest. That's the inside scoop regarding that Bill.

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