Friday, September 21, 2012

Escaping the L.A. heat!

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These past few weeks, we've been dealing with really warm weather.  This heat wave has caused me to stay home or limit my outings to the mall or anywhere I can get free AC.  Well...I'm not much of a mall guy and my craving to spend the night in the woods were beginning to get the best of me. The goal of this trip was to find a place to hike in and setup camp where the temps would be a lot milder than Los Angeles.  It also...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

One person shelter testing and my 13 pound backpack load.

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A few weeks ago, on a whim, I decided to go for a quick overnight trip to test out my backpacking gear.  I specifically wanted to test out my one person shelter system due to the fact that I have only used it once prior on my trip to Middle Fork in Lytle Creek.  In addition to the gear testing, I also wanted to see how it would be like to backpack alone...I've never done this in the past. This trip took place at 3PM on a Saturday...
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