Southeastern backpacking, camping, climbing, hiking and snowboarding.
Posted in Backpacking, Events in the Southeast, Uncategorized on May 1st, 2008
Beginning August 5th, 2008, Karl Meltzer will be taking on the insane feat of running, thats right running the length of the Appalachian Trail. Starting at the northern terminus at Mt. Kathadin in Maine all the way to Springer Mountain in Georgia in less than 47 days.
Check in often for progress reports and show your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2008
Well, we are still waiting for all of it to move out but so far it looks like we made it through the storm without any tornadic activity at least in our immediate area. We did however get some hail and heavy, heavy thunderstorms. We saw marble sized hail but just 6 miles down [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2008
We are currently in the basement waiting out a potential tornado in the area.Will let you know how it goes!The news was reporting a potential for 1-1/4 inch hail. Our house has already been through a brutal hail storm so this should be old hat.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2008
The kids really wanted to take a break from hiking the trail today and wanted to ride their bikes up at the playground so we pretty much took it easy the whole day around the house with the neighbors. I even got some skating in which was nice. I plan to head up [...]
Posted in Outdoor Gear, Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2008
Kellwood Co. signs off on a buyout of three of their outdoor gear companies based in Boulder, Colorado. At $21 per share and a sale price of $544 million Kellwood sells Kelty, Sierra Designs, and Slumberjack.
After twice rebuking offers from Sun Capital earlier this year, Kellwood’s board called the most recent $21 per share purchase [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2008
Wilderness Survival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j_LkdCt2P8
I know this debate is played but it still gets to me somehow. I wanted to get your take on it so please let me know what you think. Up until recently I have been a fan of Bear Grylls’ style while realizing that some of the stuff he does is not [...]
Posted in Camping, Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2008
To follow up on last nights saga, my dog Kaiser seems to be doing ok other than some drool most of the day today and the bufo toad is also okay as far as I could tell. My first instincts were to boil that thing up for hurting my dog but I am proud to [...]
Posted in Camping, Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2008
I realize others have experienced this before but I really had no idea what to think when we ran into a little issue with the dog this evening! My wife and I went on our nightly walk through the neighborhood with Kaiser our dog. We had a great little walk and when we got back [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2008
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8597075890740552776
This is a little clip to see how the video showed up using this camera. I currently use a Canon PowerShot A520 - 4.0 megapixal for all the pictures on this site, including the header, except for a handful that I grabbed online when needed. It usually works pretty good for still photos but as [...]
Posted in Camping, Paddling, Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2008
We had so much fun tubing with the kids that we decided to buy some little 2 person Coleman rafts and started bringing them with us camping on one of our 4-1/2 day trips up to Joyce Kilmer. Our favorite site was open so we took that. It’s perfect because you are in total privacy [...]
