Calipidder

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. [...]

I thought this was important enough to get its own entry.
When you spend hundreds of dollars on a garment, you want to treat it as carefully as possible. I’ve always associated hand washing and hang drying with the best of care, so that’s how I’ve approached washing my outerwear in the past.
Well, I should have [...]