Calipidder

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. [...]

Tom Mangan of Two-Heel Drive has written a nice profile of Henry Shires and his Tarptent business over on Trailspace.com. I’m very fond of my tarptents and was even quoted in the article, along with a cheesy picture of me in my Rainbow last summer. From the article:
Shires’s business is based in the foothills of [...]

Last summer I got word of two new hand held GPS receivers that would be entering the market in late 2007/early 2008: the Magellan Triton and the Garmin Colorado. 
The Triton hit the market first, and the release was a disaster.  The units suffered hardware and software issues, and they have been pulled from the shelves [...]

On Sunday I will be heading our for a week on the JMT with some fellow Northern CA hikers. We’ll be going in at Kearsarge Pass on Sunday, and I’ll be exiting at Muir Trail Ranch the next Sunday while Paige and crew exit the next day at Piute Pass. As I finalize [...]