My Favorite Trail Recipe: Dehydraded Bacon and Mashed Potatoes
I'm not particularily discerning when it comes to food, be it in the wilderness or at the office. A friend of freeze dried trail foods,...
A gem on Netflix about the John Muir Trail
Check out this movie about the John Muir Trail called Mile... Mile & A Half, available at least on US Netflix. Stunning cinematography and just beautiful...
Why Micro Four Thirds is not Dead – Three m4/3 cameras...
Pundits have long predicted the imminent death of the micro four thirds camera system. Indeed, the system has languished for several years...
Choosing the right type of stove for your backpacking trips
There is a dizzying variety of stoves available for backpacking use. You may be choosing your first stove, or have one type...
Hiking the Kevo Canyon: A gear retrospective
I wrote a post about the list of gear I was going to carry hiking the Kevo canyon in Utsjoki, in the...
My ultralight gear setup
I have a confession to make: compared to the amount of trips I have made, I spend way too much on gear. Being short...
Using stoves inside tent: safe or not?
Is it safe to use cooking stoves inside the tent or not? Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are dangers that people are often warned about...
Kokopelli Nirvana Self-Bailer: A quick review
After a couple of years of mostly sitting in the storage, I finally managed to take my Kokopelli Nirvana self bailing packraft...
Getting started on Packrafting – The Ultimate Guide to Packrafting Gear
A packraft as defined by Wikipedia is a small, portable inflatable boat designed for use in all bodies of water, including technical whitewater and ocean bays and...
Taking the Klymit Litewater Dinghy for a Class I ride
During a packrafting course I took recently, I had the change to put my ultralight packraft, the Klymit Lite Water Dinghy through a test...
