I'm a strong believer in personal growth through discomfort. If the strange path that I've taken in my life has taught me anything,

After a slow start to winter, it started snowing sometime in early January and didn't really let up until sometime last week.

In my last post I went over food and hydration in the mountains. Now I’ll go into the gear end of things: stoves and water purification meth

On a gray, damp morning a few days before Thanksgiving in 2007, I set out on a three day hike to some obscure sub-alpine lakes near the Moun