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Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Jul 6th, 2010
Hopefully the 4th of July weekend was good for everyone – though that means most of us are back to work today! With Western Washington still in the throes of freaking winter our options for hiking have been well noted as being minimal. On Saturday Kirk and I took the boys out for an easy [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Other, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Jun 8th, 2010
A couple weeks ago when REI was having its last sale I noticed the MSR® Quick™ 2 System was on sale for around $70. While I really didn’t need the two plates and mugs it was the same price as just the MSR® Quick™ 2 Pot Set (minus the goodies). Last year I picked up [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on May 21st, 2010
Kirk and I were out running errands last night and ended up in the local Fred Meyers (a NW chain that is always fun to shop). We were going down the sporting goods aisles and came across a display of tiny sleeping bags – they were minis of the big ones they sell, so that [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Apr 28th, 2010
Kirk came across the Shockles® PetKeeper™ at REI when we bought our BOB Jogging stroller recently. So you might be wondering why I might mention a pet item in relation to that? Well, with jogging strollers you need a tether to make sure that if you ever fall you don’t let go of it. While [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, hiking on Apr 11th, 2010
When Ford was little my favorite piece of gear was an InStep jogger stroller I scraped the money together to buy. He was in by 4 months and we had so many adventures – and thousands of miles walked over the years. It gave me freedom most simply. With Walker now over 2 weeks old [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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