Website of The Week – The Hiking Life
Website of the week: The Hiking Life. A website about Cam “Swami” Honan’s many, many, many miles of backpacking!
Category: Musings
My views on life, the universe, and everything.
Website of The Week – Semi-rad.com
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
Website of the week: SummitPost.org. A great site for any initial trip planning.
Web Site of The Week – ProTrails.com
Looking for good day hike ideas esp in Colorado? Check out ProTrails.com
The Peace of Wild Things
Thoughts on “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry. Read More …
PMags is not an ammo dealer! :)
My domain name and nick name share a name with an ammo magazine. Lucky me! 🙂
The Joys of Autumn
Some thoughts on my favorite time of the year to be outside: Autumn
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Wilderness First Aid : A Minimalist View
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! (HMHDI)
Hike My Hike, Damn it! The one true, correct and absolute way to hike. My way. Read More …
A Beer, A Burger and an Adventure: Post Trip Noshing
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 …
Our Public Path – Boulder Weekly
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!
Walking The Backbone – A Backpacking Light article
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!
Four years of trip reports…
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 …
Big knife. Too much food. Out of shape. No map. My first backpacking trip
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 …
Ga-Ga Over Gear: The New Gear Fetish
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. 🙂
The Growing Culture of Connectivity
We are becoming and increasingly connected culture. And it is expected. Read More …
Returning Home
Home is sometimes that long brown path leading wherever we choose… Read More …
After The Trail – Post Trail Re-adjustment
Before a thru-hike, many people discuss the plans before the trail and what being on the trail will be like. Few people ask what it is like when you FINISH the trail. Adjusting to life after the trail can be Read More …