Tales from the Trail

Hey, I wrote that

December 27, 2010

A little while ago, Justin (of Wandering Justin fame) asked me if I wanted to write a guest post for his blog. I felt so honored. Here’s what I came up with: If the outdoors are so great, why did we invent the indoors? If you check it out, you should page through Justin’s blog, [...]

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Snow falling at Bagby Hot Springs

November 21, 2010

The leaves have all fallen, families will soon gather for Thanksgiving, I have put away my Halloween zombie makeup, and Erin and I have now done our first camping trip with snow. It is that time of the year again. The time when you want so badly to be outside, that you will put up [...]

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Cartoon: Gear for women

November 7, 2010

Why make backpacking gear that is specialized for a woman’s body, when you can just make smaller, pink versions of men’s gear? Shrink it and pink it.

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Cartoon: The importance of Snickers

October 30, 2010

ps. I am now drawing cartoons. Please think they are funny.

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Etiquette for tent sharing

October 19, 2010

I returned from Hell’s Canyon Wilderness yesterday, and while I was there I shared my Tarptent with my friend Shannon. This has prompted me to make a list of rules of good form when sharing a tent with someone. 1. Allow your backpacking partner to pick their preferred side of the tent. Occasionally. Alternately, the [...]

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Headed to Hell’s Canyon (for real this time!)

October 4, 2010

I’m headed off to Hell’s Canyon (for real this time) on October 11th thru the 18th. I requested the time off a couple of months ago, but didn’t want to announce the trip until I was certain things would work out. And now it’s happening! I’m going with my friend Shannon, who works with me [...]

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In defense of heavy weight backpacking

September 25, 2010

I realized this weekend that I have become so focused/obsessed with lightening my load that I have forgotten the joys of traditional weight backpacking. So I’ve decided to list a few of the reasons it’s nice to carry a full load. To start out with, you don’t have to plan as much. My Arc’teryx Bora [...]

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A few more photos from Erin’s trip on the PCT

September 21, 2010

Here are a few more photos from Erin’s trip on the PCT. A quick note, Erin doesn’t touch up her photos and I mostly just resize them, so that beautiful blue sky is really there.

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