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Gear Review: Microspikes
It’s snow season here in the Okanagon Highlands which means breaking out my Microspikes. I don’t know how people out here function without them as I find it hard to bring in an armful of firewood...
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Cabin lighting
I haven’t been connected to the grid now since 2002. For the last 9 years, though, I have had a small solar system. I liked laying on my couch watching the world get light in the morning and darkening...
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Checking out library books while you are on the trail.
I discovered this cool app, Overdrive, for my smart phone this year. You enter your library card and then where ever you are, when ever you have wi-fi you can download audio books and e-books for...
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Waterproof your Iphone
I now have a Samsung Galaxy 6s Active, which is supposed to be waterproof, but for three years I carried an Iphone on the trail. When it was raining I would put it in a sandwich baggie. It weighs 2...
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Travel, live cheaply, and be productive
I met a couple of women working in a hostel that were traveling around the world cheaply by using the workaway site to find places that would let them stay for free where ever they wanted to travel...
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Me and my internet.
As you might have predicted, I’m not using the vast opportunities of the having high-speed internet to take any interesting life changing courses but instead I’m mostly consuming a steady diet of...
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Backwoods wrapping paper
Time is what I have lots of and though I’m mostly not very productive, I did create some wrapping paper, I like, with supplies I had in my cabin. I made wrapping paper by painting newspaper with...
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The Pacific Northwest Trail
Besides hiking the Oregon Coast Trail, I didn’t hike this year. I don’t know why, just content, I guess. That is until I picked up some hikers hitchhiking into the town by me. One of them was...
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No calorie snow treat
I love lemon sorbet but its full of sugar plus you can’t buy it out here. I bought some stevia and true lemon packets from amazon and combine with a big bowl of snow to make a delicious no calorie...
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Keeping your phone charged on the trail.
I love having a smart phone. It’s a GPS, compass, emergency flashlight, holds maps and trail data. I can listen to podcast, music, audio books. On my Iphone, I had Wikipedia offline. You can store...
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Time and snow
I had almost eaten all the snow off of my porch when I new supply was delivered overnight. I love snow. Mostly for the same reason I like being sick– I don’t feel like I should be doing anything...
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Current Gear List
ZPacks Arc Blast 52 liter size with 2 belt pouches, ice axe loops, trekking pole holder, shock cord lashing. Plenty big enough but next time I think I get the 60liter size cause it only weighs a...
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It’s time for Lynda Barry school!
Today’s assignment: Color with crayons, watch a movie (Iain McGilchrist ‘The Divided Brain’ Interview), and eat candy. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry.
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Resupply on the go
I’ve resupplied out of little stores on the trail now for years. I look at it like foraging. I don’t go in with an expectation of what I want but more a “lets see what’s available today” kind of...
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Gear review: Western Mountaineering Flight Jacket
I’m in a motel room in Idyllwild. Even though it’s late May in Southern California, winter is never far away when playing in the mountains and its freezing in the San Jacinto’s and I don’t want to...
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Trail food: Roasted seaweed
I discovered roasted seaweed at the little hiker store in the hostel in Lone Pine. After doing the math, I calculated it had a whopping 165 calories per ounce (6 per gram)–pretty good for...
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Hiking shirts
I only have one outfit—I’ve worn the same thing, on trail and off, summer and winter, everyday for years—a macabi hiking skirt and a nylon shirt. Since I only have the one outfit, I carefully select my...
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Gear Review: Gatewood Cape and Serenity Net-Tent.
Picture from: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-ultralight-poncho-tarp Because I don’t want to go set up my tent in the snow this morning. I’ve been using this set up for years. I think it’s the...
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Soylent cookie dough
Did you buy a bunch of Soylent so you never have to leave your cabin but you are tired of drinking all your meals? Try making it into some Soylent cookie dough. Delicious nutrition. 92 grams of...
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Gear Review: Altra Lone Peak shoes
Now, I’m not totally blaming the marshmallow like Hoka One One shoes for me ending up with a knee brace, cane, and a dent in my leg muscle but I believe the high unstable shoe was at least partly to...
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Hike in a skirt, toss your drawers, and pee standing up.
So why did people start wearing underwear? Probably to keep their pants clean. And why did they start wearing pants? Probably to cut down on chafing when they rode horses.* And why did women start...
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Loading Gaia GPS with Halfmile’s tracks and waypoints for the PCT from a...
With Gaia GPS loaded on your phone, Links from https://www.pctmap.net/gps-url-loading/ Click on which section you want: California Section A — Campo to Warner Springs GPS Track (the PCT) | GPS...
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Hermit Chow
This is my Hermit Chow laboratory. I create optimal nutrition here for around 2 dollars a day. I don’t ever have to go to town now; I just order my supplies online. I took inventory yesterday; I...
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Backwoods hot glue gun
Since getting Internet, I’ve been getting crafty at the cabin. I think I have enough food and art supplies to last me all winter. I’m working on a project that needed a hot glue gun. I found this...
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