Weekend hiker

The day after Thanksgiving Chris and I set out to explore the Allegheny Front Trail .  This trail is relatively close to where I live in St...

Backpacking provides many uplifting sights, sounds, and experiences.  However it also brings its share of irritations and adversity which ca...

As you know I usually am the Weekend Hiker , in that I tend to go on overnight hiking trips.  But back in January I made a New Year's re...

In my previous post I mentioned that we encountered a lot of rain, both during the day and at night.  I've only encountered heavy rains...

The day after Easter I went with a buddy from Hammockforums named Chris and a friend of his on a hike on the West Rim Trail of Pennsylvania...

When people make fun of ultralight backpackers they always give a particular example of radical, ridiculous, over-the-top weight-saving beha...

A friend of mine and I are planning a long backpacking trip this summer, 70 or 80 miles in 6 days.  In thinking about the logistics of takin...