Posts Tagged Backpacking

No Time to Waste

It is now just over 4 months until my departure from Seattle Washington up to Inuvik, Northwest Territories and I can’t help but look at the last couple months and how fast they really have gone.

It seems only a couple weeks ago I had finalized my route, spoke with Gus about it, and he agreed to come along.  So with that date coming closer, I have also realized I still do not really have the bike I would like to do this trip.

Before I purchase a new bike, I really need to get rid of one of my other bikes. Regardless if it is the Track bike, or my R6 Street bike, I need to get rid of them. I don’t have the room, nor the resources to just go out and purchase a new bike (oddly enough, I cringed when doing tax returns and realized my pay cut I took last year would have bought me a new BMW R1200GSA in full. Youch).

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Research Overload: Multi-Fuel Stoves

So here I am, finally getting around to getting a new Research Overload up!

Let me first start off by saying, that researching Stoves had to be one of the most arduous tasks I’ve done in a long time. I thought that researching a tent was hard, but it seemed like everyone loved their brand-x stove more than any other stove for xyz reasons over and over.

I stumbled across many articles such as this one that you see before you, of first time buyers who wrote up comparisons of their findings and continued on with information they found here, or there, and before long I realized after reading a million of them (ok, maybe like 20), that a lot of it was just terrible information. Information, that even myself, not knowing a thing about these stoves, knew wasn’t right.

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