I kept this in my right pants pocket for most of the hike and undoubtedly because of that it began to have problems retracting the lens due to dust in the gear mechanism. Being the techie I am, I tried to disassemble and clean it but the lens and gear mechanism are sealed. The cost to have Nikon fix it is more than I paid for it.

The tri-pod wasn't used as much as I thought I would, mainly because I had someone to take the photos. I really only needed to replace the batteries once and that is after a lot of reviewing of the days photos once I got to camp. The USB Card reader worked great, except a couple of times the computer either didn't have USB or I couldn't plug both the reader and the USB cable to the iPod in at the same time, due to the reader being too fat.

This Nikon L14 camera is coming along on the Great Divide with the addition of 12Gb of SD card memory. I don't want to be in the same situation, when I got to Mt Katahdin and not have any memory left. I'm also taking the extra memory, as I would like to do more videos. The Canon S70, with 3Gb is also coming along as backup should the L14 completely die.