The hare-like year of 2011 continues full bore into Spring as the days grow pleasantly longer and warmer. Big adventures have sadly been kept to a minimum lately as things like structured training, dissertation writing, sewing projects, and job interviews have temporarily taken precedence. A few relatively unexciting photos are all I have to share for now.
Yet another blaze spooked Boulder County residents last week. It burned up the terrain surrounding on of my favorite trails in the area, which will sadly now be closed to public access by the USFS for an undetermined length of time for "rehabilitation." The fire wasn't hot enough to crown, so most of the pines are still green. 
My Spearfish can now easily carry 70L of water and assorted other goodies in it's snazzy new framebag. The rear shock and frame design made attachment a bit challenging, but I think this approach should work. I actually took some photos at various steps in the creation process, so if anyone is interested in the do-it-yourself approach, I could post some step-by-step instructions for what I did. Keep in mind that I have never sewn anything besides fleece mittens and two frame bags, so I don't necessarily know what I'm doing.
A second chapter of my dissertation almost completed...
...and a third chapter follows right on its heels. Apparently my version MS Word doesn't approve of French.
Both these chapters are on what these exceptionally unique carbonate features on Baffin Island tell us about conditions beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet when it was at its greatest extent 20,000 years ago. Very few other geological archives contain such information, and the validation of numerical ice sheet models require this kind of data.
Yet another blaze spooked Boulder County residents last week. It burned up the terrain surrounding on of my favorite trails in the area, which will sadly now be closed to public access by the USFS for an undetermined length of time for "rehabilitation." The fire wasn't hot enough to crown, so most of the pines are still green. 
My Spearfish can now easily carry 70L of water and assorted other goodies in it's snazzy new framebag. The rear shock and frame design made attachment a bit challenging, but I think this approach should work. I actually took some photos at various steps in the creation process, so if anyone is interested in the do-it-yourself approach, I could post some step-by-step instructions for what I did. Keep in mind that I have never sewn anything besides fleece mittens and two frame bags, so I don't necessarily know what I'm doing.
A second chapter of my dissertation almost completed...
...and a third chapter follows right on its heels. Apparently my version MS Word doesn't approve of French.
Both these chapters are on what these exceptionally unique carbonate features on Baffin Island tell us about conditions beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet when it was at its greatest extent 20,000 years ago. Very few other geological archives contain such information, and the validation of numerical ice sheet models require this kind of data.
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Do you remember what the name of the material is that you used? Also, what store was it purchased? None of the stores here in Waterloo Ia seems to have the stuff I need. Thanks! My Spearfish is a large so I'm hoping for room to get in a 100oz!
Rob, check out Rockywoods Outdoor Fabrics. The side panels on the two bags I've made are Dimension-Polyant VX21. It's not the most durable of their sailcloth materials, but it's relatively light, highly waterproof, and I've been very impressed with similar materials on the awesome Epic/Revelate bags Eric has made for me in the past. I used a moderately heavy cordura for the narrow panels that contact the frame, some light ripstop material for internal pockets, and light cordura for internal dividers. As far as velcro, the strongest stuff (oddly, it's generic rather than actual Velcro) came from Quest Outfitters.
Awesome! Thanks Kurt. Any idea how much material? 1 yard, 2 yard. Thanks again.
1 yard is enough to make 2-3 frame bags unless you have an enormous frame!
step by step or more pictures of your frame bags would be super helpful.
Thanks,
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