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ZPacks Zero Backpack in Black Cuben/Nylon Hybrid Material 22 Aug 2013 | 08:25 am
A few days ago my new ZPacks Zero backpack showed up in my mailbox! (You read it right, inside my mailbox…) Since getting my first small size Zero backpack about a year and a half ago, it has become m...
Getting Ready for the Olympics! 18 Aug 2013 | 08:48 am
Over the last few months, I have been dropping pretty subtle hints that I am heading to the Olympics National Park later this year for a hike. While that time is not quite yet, it is getting closer… I...
Make Your Own Gear List…by copying mine! 11 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Occasionally, people contact me looking for information on starting their own gear list. There are actually a few sites that folks use to do this, however, I have always been a fan of my DIY Google Do...
Bumbling around at Big Hill Pond State Park 10 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
So, another hike was planned for this weekend, but things didn’t pan out, so we decided to postpone it. So, I decided to take my pack, which happened to be all packed up already, and head out to Big H...
MSR Carbon Reflex 2 & the Big Agnes Copper Spur UL2 6 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
A few months back, I picked up the Big Agnes Copper Spur UL2 tent (see video of it next to my ZPacks Hexamid Tent HERE). I actually replaced my Six Moon Designs Lunar Duo with the Copper Spur to use a...
Tarptent Contrail & Yama Mountain Gear 1P Cirriform SW Tent 5 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
My buddy Hiking Shoes came by my house this past weekend, and he just so happened to have his Henry Shires Tarptent Contrail with him. Now, the Contrail was a tent that I had wanted for quite a while,...
Velbon V-Pod Camera Tripod 4 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
As some of you may remember, a while back I (finally) upgraded my older camera with a Panasonic Lumix GF2. Since then, I have enjoyed playing around with a camera that offers a few more buttons and op...
The Starlyte & The 12-10 2 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
This morning I was asked to make a comparison video between the Starlyte stove & the 12-10 stove when used with the 1.3L Trail Designs Sidewinder Caldera Cone. I had been talking with Rocco about thes...
Tagged: My 3 Favorite Bushcraft Items 28 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
A few months ago, Brian Green tagged me in his write-up, “My Three Favorite Bushcraft Items.” I’ll admit, the reason it has taken me a bit of time to respond was because it was a difficult tag (at lea...
Nescafe 3-in-1 Instant Coffee 21 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
Let me begin by saying, I am not an avid coffee drinker. I do enjoy carrying coffee while hiking so that I can have a cup-of-Joe each morning; and while I do drink coffee at home, it is only on occasi...