TOASTY! While at REI today, doing some early shopping for my next backpacking trip – this one being in the winter – and needing to dry my boots off at night most likely from hiking in the snow all day, I saw these and thought they’d be perfect. Man was I right. I will follow-up […]
Category Archives: Gear
While at REI today browsing around my toy store (I could browse in there for hours! Unfortunately, my 1 year old could not…sigh), I came across the Smith’s CCKS 2-Step Knife Sharpener. I have been looking for a small and decent one for a while now, as my old one is no longer functional, and […]
Finally, after a few months, I am finally ready to release it into the wild. My Excel-based backpacking checklist. I am a technology geek, so, instead of using something simple like a printed notepad or Microsoft Word document, I wanted to use a tool that can help me automatically calculate weights and whatnot on each […]
Image credit: http://freewalls.org/wallpaper/android-red-rocks-backpack/ And by android, I don’t mean R2-D2, although that would be cool. I mean the phone operating system type Androids. I am a technology consultant, and along with that, a gadget geek. I am hardly ever without my phone. Granted, I need to get a new one, that is lighter, bigger, and […]
Quick tip for you… If you are like me, and cannot ever remember any measurements outside of 8 bits in a byte, 12 inches in a foot, a football field is 100 yards, which in turn is 300 feet (3 feet in a yard)… then simple tricks to help you with measuring are always good! […]
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