Hey all, I was cleaning out my gear closet and discovered that I have entirely too much stuff in there. I have a lot of dog packs for reasons I won’t get into here, but I want to get them out of my closet and into the hands of people who will use them….
WalletPop.com had two of their reporters (Adam Kaufman and his girlfriend, Katie Lorah) go to a bulk food store to stock up on supplies to fill drop boxes on their Pacific Crest Trail hike.
I got out this weekend and took Ranger for a walk on a section of the Cardinal Greenway (the Whitewater Gorge section) in Richmond, Indiana. We parked at the site of the former Gennett Record Company. Unfortunately, I didn’t take my camera, so I only got a few pictures that a friend took with my…
Technically the first day of spring is about a week away, so this was the last hike of the winter. My paying gig has kept me busy this week, and the weather really limited how much I got out on the trail, but that’s life. I finished a couple of projects around the house, made…
I stumbled upon an interesting set of instructions for something that reuses a bucket, a toilet seat, a milk crate, scrap wood, and zip ties and makes a toilet that will recycle yet again.
I got an email press release today regarding a cool site that goes live tomorrow: SierraClubTrails.org
The 2009 Catahoula Calendar is now ready for sale. A portion of the proceeds from each calendar goes to benefit Catahoula Rescue. This year’s theme is The Versatile Catahoula. The cover was recently unveiled, and you may recognize one of the faces there–Beau. He’s wearing his backpack. He has been in the Catahoula calendar every…
This morning I was putting some chicken in the slow cooker for dinner and I decided to use a little sea salt to flavor things. When I gave a quick twist to the plastic grinder I realized it was pretty similar to the hand crank grinder my friend Nora gave me for my birthday. Me…
I got a book in the mail today, Dog Park Wisdom by Lisa Wogan. Lisa contacted me last year about putting my site in the book as a place to get info on hiking with dogs. It’s plugged on pages 110-111 (via a plug for backpackgeartest.org), with a bio in the back for Beau and…
My friend Christine sent me a link for 2 Dogs 2,000 miles. This is a hike by Luke and his two Great Pyrenees are taking from Austin, TX to Boston, MA to raise awareness for canine cancer research. Much of what we learn from animal cancer directly affects the treatment of human cancer. Finding a…
