Thanks to everyone who came out for the Meet & Greet. I was glad to see everyone again and meet new group members. I hope everyone made it home safely. ...
... to see everyone again and meet new group members. I hope everyone made it home safely. It was a beautiful weekend for us :-) and the fall foilage...
Nice try Professor Tim, but I do remember someone (insert "ah hem"here) that slipped off to HIS tent early in the evening without bidding good night to all...
Austin and I are totally bummed we couldn't come out yesterday to meet everyone. We were really looking forward to it, but I found myself in the middle of...
Nice seeing y'all again since I was tied up this Summer. I'm thinking that Cathy is just laying down a smoke screen about the chocolate bars because she ate...
Well I don't have much of a trip report to write for my trip to Chichen Itza. We took a 3 hour bus ride through the dense Mexican jungle to get there. It was a...
Hi Everyone! Thanks for including me in your group. My name is Matt and I just moved to Ohio with my wife. We moved here from Arizona for work. We were...
3 day loop in the Smokies cataloochie to the laurel gap shelter on friday. the shelter is a 12 person three sided stone shelter which I've always had good luck...
I started with a white gas stove and went straight to a couple of different alcohol stoves from there. Lots of people out there, like Cathy, have tried alcohol...
Anyone interested or planning a weekend hike in Eastern Ohio / Western PA? Lots to choose from out this way! Any of the State parks or WV or Western PA...
I think many of us would be interested in exploring western PA. If you want to do a trip there, plan it! Post the location, description of the trip (trails,...
I realize this is last minute. But, my plan is to do a long day hike on the Raccoon Creek State Park trails. The park boarders Ohio and is in PA and...
Sorry I missed the M&G. We had two of our group basically chased back into their campers by a wild dog! The situation needed taken care of before we did...
Tim, I have a pocket rocket stove. With a small MSR canister I get around 9 to 12 boils per canister. I have not tried the Snow Peaks or Jet Boil canisters...
Hi Scott, usually I'd be up for an outing like this..however, I have the creepy-crud-congestion-thing that I caught from my daughter. She was under the...
Tim, it's interesting to me that you noted the complexity of your set up. You know me, the simpler, the better. If I could break my system down more - I would....
Yeah, I've told several people starting out asking about stoves that if I were starting over I would just go with a canister stove. Instead, I started at one...
Those really are some great pictures. I was there about two years ago and for some reason it seems like there are many things I just missed out on. Thanks for...
Shira, When you went were you able to climb the pyramid? I hear that a lady from Germany fell down the steps about a year ago and died, so they no longer let...
Tyson, We were really looking forward to being able to do that but we were not able to climb up the main pyramid because of someone falling down. We had missed...
Nice. I didn't even know it existed - 'course, I'm not looking either... I probably wouldn't consider that one for myself because of the handle configuration...
I just got back from a non backpacking trip to Mammoth Caves. I picked up some maps of the backpacking trails and talked to the park rangers. They said very...
I have used the Optimus Crux but without the fry pan lid just use a regular lid.I am very satisfied with its performance. I have been considering switching to...
I've actually been to Mammoth Caves backpacking a couple of times. Um, I don't have my map in front of me, so I don't recall what trail we took. I didn't...