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Posted in hiking, Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2009
If you are on the Left Coast, there are a couple Trail Festivals to consider attending in the coming months. We will be at both of them. March 28, 2009 (A Saturday): We will be a vendor at the PCTA Trails Fest in Portland, Oregon coming up on March 28, 2009. As well we will [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 25th, 2009
Dicentra and I were talking recently about our first hike together. We had met online a couple years before but didn’t have a chance to hike together until spring of 2003 (yikes..time has flown!). On Monday’s hike I could see across the valley to the trail we hiked – Rattlesnake Ledge. Back then the newer [...]
Posted in Food Finds, hiking, Other, Trail Cooking on Feb 24th, 2009
I’ll admit to it – I am a mooch. What can I say? I see food in hiking partners packs and “Ooh! I haven’t had that before” “So, hey, yeah….got any extras?” I even bring my own mooching spoon – after all, a mooch has to be respectful. So yesterday while hiking, Trailhead mentioned that [...]
Posted in hiking on Feb 23rd, 2009
I was reading WTA’s blog when I saw this recent post about the thievery of tools from a work site in the Issaquah Alps. The saddest part is how little the tools are worth used but how very important they are to the volunteers of Washington Trails Association for trail work. If you peruse Craigslist, [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Feb 23rd, 2009
Trailhead had the day off so she asked if I would like to join her. After waiting for what seemed forever for the oil to get changed in the Benz I was finally free so off we left town. It had poured all last night but this morning the skies were blue – though the [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Feb 23rd, 2009
We were at Costco yesterday looking at jackets when Kirk noted that that they had Mountain Hardwear Verglas soft shell jackets for ladies. They were priced at $69.99 while on Mountain Hardwear’s website the suggested retail price is $160. They had a couple colors and I liked the Espresso color the best. Nice smooth fabric, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2009
Dicentra joined Ford and I for a morning hike to Dirty Harry’s Balcony, which is named after an infamous logger back in the day who would log lands that no one else would. We parked outside the main gate on the road there and road walked to the “trailhead”, crossing the South Fork of the [...]
Posted in Gear, hiking, Hiking Gear, Other, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Feb 20th, 2009
I had mentioned this week that on Monday I bought a new stove. So what did I get? An MSR Windpro canister stove. I had been looking for a remote canister style stove for the past 6 months or so – one of the issues I have had with our cooking videos has been balancing [...]
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