This is pretty straight forward but under the planning category you will find all the posts that show the behind the scenes work that goes into a variety of different adventures. You will find posts about how to plan a cross-country road trip, pack for a mountaineering trip, train for a marathon, and most importantly, plan for a thru hike. This is also where you can find trip reports on climbs and hikes we have done that can help you plan your own adventures.
So you want to do a thruhike, eh? Have you been bringing thruhiking up for years, telling anyone who will listen that someday you want to do a thruhike? Or have you been hiding the desire deep down in the folds of your soul, barely letting yourself believe that you want to thruhike? Either way […]
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Look, winter is a rough time of the year for many of us adventurers. Even with the new addition of resort skiing to our repertoire we still find ourselves languishing without frequent bouts of tent time. But I am here to tell you that a winter backpacking trip is NOT outside of your world of […]
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The food reviews continue. Now we move on to the really exciting stuff: dinner. Dinner was often the best part of the day for us, by far. It was the only time we were assured a filling meal. Trail food is it’s own unique class of food. We learned that quickly on the AT and we […]
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No, Pico de Orizaba isn’t a dip for tortilla chips. That is pico de gallo. Get your picos right people. So what is Pico de Orizaba, you ask? Well you see the thing is I haven’t been completely honest with you. Not that I have been actively lying to you, but I haven’t been as […]
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Alright, installment number two in our review of the food we ate on the PCT. Today we will be talking about snacks. A lot of people have actually asked us what we ate during the day while we were hiking because apparently figuring out what to pack for a jaunt in the woods is trickier […]
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Eventually these posts will comprise a comprehensive list of everything that we ate on the Pacific Crest Trail. They will include how each meal was made/assembled, how we prepared it on trail, and our verdict with regards to tastiness. I’m doing it! I am getting around to actually reflecting on our time on the PCT […]
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Ever since I was a small child I have dreamed of owning my own gear closet. Okay, that is a bit of an exaggeration but it certainly feels that way. My desire for a gear closet (a magical room or space where our outdoor gear gets to live, unfettered by bins and stuff sacks, stored […]
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And the food updates continue. Breakfast Chillequiles: I did a couple of elaborate breakfasts, chillequiles being by far the most involved. For me, trail breakfasts can be the most repetitive and boring meal of the day. Oh, oatmeal or poptarts again? No thank you. I branched out and tried some new things, including breakfast quinoa, […]
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So, as you may or may not know, I dehydrated pretty much all our dinners for this hike. Which was a lot of dinners. Almost twenty food drops or so. One hundred and nineteen dinners. Some of the dinners were my own creation, a lot of them were sauces, veggies, and grains that we […]
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