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Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Mar 8th, 2010
Yesterday we stopped into a local Costco and came across a pallet of Chariot Cheetah 1’s that came packaged with the jogger wheel conversion kit.
The Chariot chassis retails for $400, the wheel kit for $90. The deal at Costco is $349.99, a $140 savings!
Yes, the Chariot is a pricey setup – it is Ala carte [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Feb 24th, 2010
There was a point in my life when more than half my outdoor gear had LLBean splattered on it. It was well made gear, it lasted and worked well. Then they kind of took a turn where they were not producing much – to my sadness. Then I went UL and that cut out a [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear on Feb 1st, 2010
Had time to do a test run on our new Snow Peak Giga Stove this afternoon.
The standards for the test:
37° water (pretty close to the temperature of creek water up high in the Cascade Mountains in summer).
49° outside with a very low breeze.
No windscreen.
Half filled Giga Power fuel canister (we do this because on trips [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear on Jan 27th, 2010
Earlier this month I had mentioned how I was searching for a new canister stove and today I had a chance to hit REI while out.
Yes, I did go for the Snow Peak Giga after all. Hoping to get in some trial runs with it tomorrow!
~Sarah
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Jan 25th, 2010
Not coming till this spring sadly but soon Mountain Mama will be on the market.
As a Mom who has raised one outdoorsy kid (yeah, you all know him as Ford) and one on the way this winter……well I can say that there is nothing on the market currently for ladies with a bump out front. [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear on Jan 2nd, 2010
After a long and great run my long suffering ugly as can be Primus canister stove died (Kirk gave it to me back in early 2003 if I remember right). That little hot box went on so many trips and cooked 100’s of meals. But oh well, let us not shed tears….cause it just means [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Dec 31st, 2009
Over our monthly coffee meetings, Cat and I were talking shop (Cat runs our booth when we do trade and trail shows!). My idea of a new version of the FBC Cozy came up and I threw my ideas out to her. She was “you need to get that idea down and see if it [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Other, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking, Uncategorized, hiking on Dec 15th, 2009
Various links to things to check out…some of these have been posted on our Twitter page and as well on our Facebook page.
New section in The Bargain Bin, 2 colors of FBC Cozies on clearance (one not seen before, it is a short run).
A look at sports drinks – on what works best with a [...]
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