Calipidder

Sorry to be so late on this, but I want to congratulate Kirsten Liske who was the winner of the giveaway. Thanks to everyone for participating - I look forward to doing more of this kind of thing in the future!

Unfortunately I was unable to make it to the OR show this year, so I’m enviously following along with the conversation on Twitter and various blogs. At least I have an excuse to go to the Summer show now (I usually miss it because I’m on the trail in August). I thought I’d throw up [...]

Back in October I had the exciting opportunity to attend the Gore-Tex Blogger Summit on the east coast. One of the reasons for this summit was to launch their Experience More Community. I have registered and poked around the site a bit, enjoying reading the posts and experiences of other community members. Admittedly, I haven’t [...]

No matter how much gear we collect, no matter how experienced we are, there always seems to be a reason to accumulate more. Some people call it an addiction, an obsession, and others call it wasting money. I call it part necessity, part keeping up, and part, well, yeah it’s an addiction.
2009 was a year [...]

Recently I acquired a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 digital camera (birthday present to myself). This camera is a high quality device disguised as a compact point-and-shoot.
When I’m backpacking, I’m often in the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever experienced and strongly wish I had my DSLR along, but I’m not going to haul it for long trips. [...]