It's backpacking heaven along the crest trail. Someday I'd like to take the opposite approach and spend 3 or 4 days up there. Maybe bring some climbing stuff for day trips to the peaks. Or a good...
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It's backpacking heaven along the crest trail. Someday I'd like to take the opposite approach and spend 3 or 4 days up there. Maybe bring some climbing stuff for day trips to the peaks. Or a good...
I think so. I have a small first aid kit, which has mostly been useful for tape and moleskin. I only bring it if I'm going up with someone less experienced, or if going somewhere more remote. It has...
Just a quick trip report ... awesome, amazing walk. I almost didn't go at all because of lousy forecast (the National Weather Service described a complex pattern which included the word "monsoon,"...
Happily the trails are really well marked up there. I mostly like the phone because it creates a track and gives me all kinds of nerdy trip stats. And (gasp) it'll be my camera.
There may be some...
This instant coffee is drinkable ... if iced, it's actually really good. More than enough caffeine. My gf and I buy stumptown beans for weekends ($$$) and drink the mt. hagen on weekday mornings, at...
I'm getting up early tomorrow to do a 24 mile loop through the tetons. If you're familiar with the area, I'm going up the start of Death Canyon, up over the static peak and buck mtn. divides, into...
I've been trying in vain to find my copy of John Krakauer's essay on the 1st ascent of Mont Blanc. The provision list included cases of wine and brandy. I divided the number of bottles by the number...
I try to be an adventurous eater, but cultural biases / heebie-jeebies are sometimes too strong. There's no rational reason why crustaceans and shrimp and roe and raw oysters are food to me, but...
Ha! I'd rather keep my questionable judgment and a clif bar.
For me a goal of outdoor activities is to avoid the "survival" situation. If I'm ever forced to cut down a tree, trap a marmot, or eat grubs, I would consider it abject failure.
Ok, your feet are messed up. And my climbing partners ankles are messed up. Lke Nancy and I were saying, it's a completely indivdual choice. No reason to impose your special needs on everyone else.
"Fad of trail runners in their sneakers ..."
What else would you wear when running a trail? And I don't think you can call something a fad after 30 years.
I'm indebted to trail running. I only...
Absolutely. When I backpacked into the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River range a few years ago, for ten days of alpine climbing, my partner and I chose completely different shoes. I wore very...
Back in 1978, in his alpinism book Climbing Ice, Yvon Chouinard advised, "leave the 10 essentials and other impedimenta behind. If you bring overnight gear, you will use it."
He was being...