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Mountain UltraLight: The Kitchen
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Make Your Own Gear! Nutrition in the backcountry is important.after all you're asking a lot from your body! Here are some of my favorite comfort food recipes, food planning tips, and cooking strategies. Trail Cooking with Minimal Fuel. 2 Hikers, 14 days, 70,764 calories. Make Your Own Backpacking Meals! One Container - Multiple Uses! Moroccan Delight - Dehydrated Super Food. How Not To Dehydrate Yams. Confessions of an UltraLight Backpacker - Addicted to Caldera. John's Meat Sauce Recipe. Fresh, August 21.
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Mountain UltraLight: June 2011
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Make Your Own Gear! Monday, June 20, 2011. Training for the JMT. After a long 3 week break from hiking, I'm back in full training mode. It wasn't very good timing, but we moved right at the time when I should have been training hard for my upcoming JMT thru-hike. Although moving is good exercise, it's definitely not hiking. A quick stop to take a glance across the valley, this is a beautiful camp site on a cliff just off the trail. Hmmm.maybe I'll camp here next weekend. Less than a mile from the peak, H...
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Mountain UltraLight: Hiker Slang
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Make Your Own Gear! Hikers like to make up their own terms, especially thru-hikers. Here's a quick reference guide for you. I'm sure there are many more, so please leave yours in the comments section below. Bypass part of the trail by boat (i.e. shenandoah national park section of AT). All You Can Eat type of restaurant. Backpackers "bag" peaks on trips. Weight of all gear in backpack minus consumables (food, fuel and water). Next to skin clothing layer, preferably wicking and quick drying. The natural c...
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Teach, Travel and Trek: September 2010
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Teach, Travel and Trek. ESL and Hiking Blog from South Korea. Thursday, September 30, 2010. Gangwondo Chuseok Part Two: Odaesan National Park. Waking up after the wash-out in Wonju, we decided to take a rest day to let our kit dry, and use it to travel to within easier striking distance of Odaesan National Park. Hiking fifteen or so miles in the pouring rain meant we deserved it, we reasoned. Not having enough time to do a whole day's hiking we chose a course a little shorter than this one. Still, I find...
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A little bit about not a lot
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A Little Bit About Not A Lot: Synthetic Insulated Jacket: Jack Wolfskin Thermosphere. Friday, 7 November 2014. Synthetic Insulated Jacket: Jack Wolfskin Thermosphere. At a time where I thought I had my gear pretty much sorted and I’d come to terms with my view on down versus synthetic, I was contacted by OutdoorWorldDirect. To see if I wanted to test the Thermosphere Jacket by Jack Wolfskin. At the time I had my doubts as to how and where this would have relevance to my kit. Without even looking for the ...
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Mountain UltraLight: May 2011
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Make Your Own Gear! Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Singing the Accolades of a Dirty Girl. Gaiters that is. In all the time I've been hiking with trail junk filling my shoes, I've never tried out a pair of gaiters. Then I found Dirty Girl! Dirty Girl Gaiters are about as simple as you can get, which makes them perfect for UltraLight Backpacking. The website, www.dirtygirlgaiters.com. They attach in the back with a small piece of velcro that you cut and stick to the back of your shoe. These simple spandex gaiters ...
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Jared's Adventure Blog: Elkhorn Backpacking Trip 5/3-4/2014
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A blog of my past, future, and present adventures. I dabble with a lot of activities, Whitewater Kayaking, Scuba Diving, Lightweight/Ultralight Backpacking, Snowboarding, Dirt biking/ATV Riding, 4wheeling, and all the goodies in between. Thursday, May 8, 2014. Elkhorn Backpacking Trip 5/3-4/2014. Every year the first backpacking trip of the season is a, "did I remember everything and was that gear list I used from 5 years ago that I found on my blog complete? Heading out we were blessed with only light i...
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Mountain UltraLight: Lacing Tips
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Make Your Own Gear! Tuesday, September 13, 2011. If your shoes aren't fitting quite right, don't throw them out just yet. The solution may be as simple as changing the way you lace your shoes. Here are a couple of techniques that have worked for me. Happy feet are essential to a good hike. If there's a spot on your foot that doesn't feel right, stop immediately and address it or it will just get worse. Preventing foot problems is much easier than dealing with painful blisters or injuries! Thanks so much ...
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Mountain UltraLight: August 2011
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Make Your Own Gear! Sunday, August 14, 2011. John Muir Trail (Trip Report). This hike has been a work in progress for the past year. In 2010 we did a 112 mile hike in California on the PCT section-A. In the spring, then another beautiful 55 miles in Oregon from MT. Hood to Cascade Locks. In late summer. The "Big One" for 2011 would be the entire 212 mile John Muir Trail. Day one was planned to be a very easy one starting around noon with just 10 total miles and very little elevation gain. Beautiful m...
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