In 2006, I walked the Pacific Crest Trail. It was hot dang wonderful. Since then, I’ve found myself building a sizable collection of videos on youtube. I thought that I should revisit my PCT hike, since I had little visual documentation of it (an epic tomb of words can be found on this journal.) It [...]
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Pacific Crest Trail Video
Posted in Backpacking, Pacific Crest Trail, tagged backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, pct, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear on March 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Six Moon Designs = no longer Made in the USA
Posted in Backpacking, tagged backpacking, gear, six moon designs, smd, ultralight, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear on February 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Six Moon Designs is moving their production overseas. Hopefully their stuff won’t fall apart so easily in the future…. “Six Moon Designs has been in business for 10 years and all of our manufacturing is US based. We’ve been fortunate to secure a good US production source with reasonable rates and excellent quality. However, we’ve [...]
Planning a thruhike on the Continental Divide Trail
Posted in Backpacking, Continental Divide Trail, Gear, tagged adventure, Backpacker Magazine, backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, gear, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, ultralight backpacking, ultralight backpacking gear, wilderness on February 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What follows are my thoughts on the CDT. I wrote this for submission in Yogi’s CDT Handbook. The wording and formatting may be awkward. It was written in response to questions that I have deleted from this text. Questions? Please leave a comment! NAVIGATION Many CDTers also don’t know squat about navigation. But that doesn’t [...]
Henry Shires Tarptent Moment Review
Posted in Backpacking, Gear, tagged gear, shelters, tarp tent, ultralight backpacking gear on February 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was provided a Tarptent Moment to test on the CDT. It’s a hot little tent. It’s super simple to set up, is roomy, provides full coverage, both from rain and bugs, sets up tight and is relatively light. It’s so popular, that I thought I’d provide my notes on it here. The quotes below [...]
Ultralight Backpacking Videos
Posted in Backpacking, tagged gear, thruhike, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I lost over a hundred posts on my old blog. I don’t think that I’m ever going to get them back. Luckily, many of them were simply links to youtube videos that I’ve uploaded. Instead of posting those all again, I direct you to my youtube page. Below is my most popular video. I think [...]
Tarptent Moment Initial Review
Posted in Continental Divide Trail, tagged backpacking, cdt, continental divide trail, gear, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight backpacking on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Easton, blue, short stakes that tarptent provides are garbage. I’ve broken about half of the ones that i’ve used and won’t rely on them ever again. Personally, I suck it up and carry Y-Stakes. They’re worth their weight. I also use rocks if needed. And I LNT to a high level for sure. I [...]
GPS Enabled
Posted in Pacific Crest Trail, tagged backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, ultralight backpacking on December 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, aren’t I lucky? Just this week I got hooked up with a project for Backpacker Magazine to log my hike through GPS. At first it seemed like an overly daunting task. Too much time plugged in, worrying about quality of the finished product, dealing with battery life and the like. In short, it seemed [...]
Chatter
Posted in Pacific Crest Trail, tagged adventure, backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, pct, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, wilderness on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
People ask lots of interesting questions when I reveal that I’m hiking Mexico to Canada. Some are totally unexpected. Some get repeated a lot. Perhaps the funniest comes from people clearly struggling mentally with such a walk. More than a couple of times I’ve been faced with disbelief. They ask, “Wow, how long will that [...]
Endurance athelete I am not. Yet.
Posted in Pacific Crest Trail, tagged adventure, backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, pct, thruhike, thruhiking, triple crown, ultralight, wilderness on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Training” for me hasn’t been much. In fact, I’ve definitely slowed down in the past month! It seems that after moving back home to San Francisco I’ve lost a lot of motivation to hit the trails. When I was working and in school, I took every chance I had (at least every weekend) to get [...]
First PCT post
Posted in Pacific Crest Trail, tagged adventure, backpacking, gear, pacific crest trail, pct, thruhike, thruhiking, trekking, triple crown, ultralight, wilderness on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wow! I really need to get this journal started! I’ve been dreaming of hiking the PCT for at least a few years now and finally decided to do it. I was graduating college and was ready for a real adventure. Life spent doing weekend and summer trips wasn’t going to satisfy me fully. I knew [...]
