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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 Trip Reports, photos on Feb 26th, 2010
Teresa “Dicentra” (One Pan Wonders) my long time friend and hiking partner was digging through stuff and came across a couple forgotten CD’s of photos from past trips we had done. A number of these photos I hadn’t seen before! From 2004 and 2005 mostly
A very young Ford on the way up Dog [...]
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 Trip Reports, photos on Jan 9th, 2010
The weather report for today was apparently quite wrong. The prediction had been 90% rain or something like that and instead it was sunny, balmy and just too nice to not get outside. Kirk humored his slow wife by agreeing to do an easy loop out at Nolte State Park around Deep Lake. We left [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Oct 6th, 2009
Weather wise there isn’t much better than right after the first snow storms of early October blow through – and the sun comes back. I woke up this morning before dawn and knew it was the day to do the ‘loop’ around Tahoma. Stevens Canyon Road had been fixed so why not? Who knows what [...]
Posted in Trip Reports, hiking, photos on Oct 2nd, 2009
I was flipping through photos in iPhoto when I came across a set I took around this time of year, last year, up at Paradise. Right now the snow is swirling good this week. Snow levels have dropped to 4K and have been holding. Yet come end of the weekend it is supposed to dry [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports, photos on Sep 19th, 2009
There were a set of subalpine lakes I had long wanted to visit. I had tried a couple years ago and was turned back due to snow on the back side. Jared and I got talking on Thursday and when he heard the lakes had fish he said ‘lets go’. So off we went early [...]
Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking, hiking on Sep 15th, 2009
Is it a rarity – the day hiker who carries the means to have a hot meal and a nice break during the day? Out here in the Pacific Northwest I would say no – I often see people stopping for a mug of hot tea, a cup of soup and a hot lunch. Maybe [...]
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