CDT Trail Register – Cuba, NM : May 1990 – May 2013
A scan of a historic Continental Divide Trail Register from May 1990 to May 2013. Read More …
My views on life, the universe, and everything.
A scan of a historic Continental Divide Trail Register from May 1990 to May 2013. Read More …
Website of the week: The Hiking Life. A website about Cam “Swami” Honan’s many, many, many miles of backpacking!
Website of the week: Semi-Rad.com. More than just gear or trip planning, it is a website about the outdoors as a lifestyle.
Website of the week: SummitPost.org. A great site for any initial trip planning.
Looking for good day hike ideas esp in Colorado? Check out ProTrails.com
Thoughts on “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry. Read More …
My domain name and nick name share a name with an ammo magazine. Lucky me! 🙂
Some thoughts on my favorite time of the year to be outside: Autumn
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Wilderness First Aid is a basic certification for the assessing, treating and stabilizing of a person’s injuries in the backcountry. But how does the (sometimes) gear and equipment focused backcountry medicine co-exist with a more minimalist view? Here is my Read More …
Hike My Hike, Damn it! The one true, correct and absolute way to hike. My way. Read More …
The views were astounding. The powder was sweet. That secret camping spot off-trail near a brook was savored. The top of the pass was scrambled to and nothing is seen but an endless vista of mountains. The trailhead is then Read More …
An article on The Colorado Trail I wrote for the Boulder Weekly. A quick overview with some options to explore The Colorado Trail for a day, a weekend or the whole enchlada!
An article I wrote for Backpacking Light. A photo essay and a briefy synopsis of the lightweight backpacking gear I used from the trail. Check it out!
For your reading pleasure (?!?!), I imported and tweaked the bulk of my trip reports from late 2006 to the present. The ones that tend to be missing are local 'shoulder' season hikes that, while nice, don't have many photos Read More …
An account of my first backpacking trip in 1996. I did not know what I was doing to say the least! But, everyone has to start somewhere. It was not a lightweight bapcking trip to say the least! 🙂 With Read More …
This essay is my rant about gear and the outdoors. Or rather people who care more about spend time outdoors to use gear rather than the other way around. 🙂
We are becoming and increasingly connected culture. And it is expected. Read More …
Home is sometimes that long brown path leading wherever we choose… Read More …