I was thankful to see a 12 of 12 fall on a weekend for a change. Better yet, it was on a day when I planned to get out for a long hike. By the time the 12th had arrived though, the long hike plan had been replaced with a shorter version due to time […]

The list below was a personal project that I did in my spare time. I weighed a lot of my backpacking gear, mainly out of curiosity, but also with the idea of identifying where “the most bang for the buck” was to be had. Once I’d scrawled down the weights on paper, it sat around […]

I figured I needed to write this catch-all post to get caught up on a few things that have been going on lately. I was tempted to put each item in its own post, just for the purpose of making more posts, but I don’t want to start down that dark path. There are some […]

This marks my first year of doing the 12 of 12 thing, which I started in September of last year, although to be fair I did miss a couple of months along the way. The prior day had been a busy one, after a busy week and a busy weekend before that. As such, the […]