2004/06/25– Backpacker Magazine and New Gear
A Reader Tip in the August ’04 Backpacker magazine is from Yours Truly. Beau has a new backpack from RuffWear. I’m pretty happy with it so far, so I will add a review as I get time.
2004/06/04– Lucy’s New Title and an Article in a Magazine
Today, Lucy earned her Canine Good Citizen. A trip report of mine was published in this quarter’s Bushwhacker’s Wilderness Journal.
Potowatomi Trail 2004
Potowatomi Trail Pinckney Recreation Area, Michigan Memorial Day Hike May 30-31, 2004 Day 1: 12.6 miles The fun started today before we even got on the trail. We left the house in Indiana at about 7am. I’d stopped at a sporting goods store on the way to the trailhead (3 hours from home) for an…
Manistee River Trail: North Country Trail loop
Manistee National Forest August 20-21, 2002. We did about 6 miles on the first day, having not got on the trails until about 2 pm. Some of this was spent backtracking after a dropped waterbottle and figuring out how to get Beau to not drag me over in a rush to get going. Added to…
On the Subject of Towels
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of…