Archive for the 'Backpacking gear' Category

Gear review

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I have been subscribed to do some backpack gear testing for http://www.backpackgeartest.org/ for sometime now and finally have completed the first draft of my owner review of the SteriPen adventurer.  I will include a link to the review on here once I have had the chance to edit it with the help of my mentor [...] Read more »

Refocus

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

We have decided to refocus the blog to our outdoor adventures.  These adventures will include mostly backpacking, but also biking, geocaching, hiking, and some other travel adventures that may occur.  We will be talking about hikes we are planning as well as some other things.
Gear reviews will also be included here, but more about that [...] Read more »

Violet’s new pack

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Solar promised a picture of Vi a.k.a. Eclipse (thanks Julie and Ms. Lamarr’s 3rd grade class) with her new pack on. She seems to be liking it good enough, it does have the main advantage over the other in that it disburses the weight more evenly over the length of the pack and doesn’t [...] Read more »

Water storage

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I said I was going to start giving some gear reviews and this one is at the top of the list right now. We each carry a nalgene water bottle and a bladder to carry our water in. This is usually sufficient, but right now we are in an area deficient on water, [...] Read more »