Section Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Rather unusual video by "lint" who has hiked the Appalachian Trail twice and is a triple crown (AT, CDT, PCT) hiker. Lint hikes a ...

Have you been invited to join Pinterest ? If not, you may not know about this rapidly growing new social media site. We received a Pi...

We've noted quite a bit of interest in Esbit's new Spirit alcohol stove and cook set in our blog analytics. While we don't own ...

After downsizing our trail kitchen to the new Esbit cup , we need a smaller spork that would fit inside the 3.5 inch space. We found a nice ...

Working Saturday at a Rural Tourism Marketing workshop and we just discovered a unique ultralight beer can stove kit . Turns out our speaker...

Are you looking for a lightweight stove for your next backpacking trip? Have you ever considered a homemade alcohol stove from a Coke can? R...

Recently, we were the winner of an alcohol backpacking stove giveaway . The prize was a well made Bud Light alcohol stove. We grabbed some a...

We have acquired many backpacking stoves over our long life, but one of our favorites is our homemade Supercat alcohol stove. We like the Su...

One of the minor problems that most backpackers need to resolve is how many extra luxury items to pack and how not to forget and lose said l...

While visiting a nearby military base, I discovered Esbit has a new stove and backpacking cook set. The new Esbit stove is round and one pie...

Our newest piece of backpacking gear is a digital scale. Harbor Freight has their digital scales on sale, so we bought a battery powered dig...

One of the most important skills for a section hiker to master before setting off on a section hike of the Appalachian Trail is bear bagging...

Knives are a big concern among many hikers planning to hike the Appalachian Trail. Concerns range from what kind of knife to carry to the le...

Several past visitors arrived looking for information on backpack covers for flying. While I haven't flown with my backpack, I have ridd...

During our recent backpacking trip to Cane Creek State Park , one of the new toys we tested was a Timber Creek mini LED headlight. The Timbe...

One of the items that comes up on most through hiker gear lists are backpack covers. As most of our backpacking trips have been under fair s...

If you read our earlier post on Disney Freeze Dried Real Sliced Apples , you know that we tested "cooking" our trail food breakfas...

Making an ultralight backpack alcohol stove was one of the most fun things we've done this year. After researching alcohol stoves, we kn...

As part of our new hammock camping system, we purchased ENO SlapStrapMICRO 's for our hammock suspension. We like the idea of wrapping a...

So, a pair of Grand Trunk Lightweight Hammocks arrived from Amazon.com, about a week earlier than expected. Eager to try out the new campin...