Tips, tricks and discussion on various Backpacking, Hiking & Camping topics.

Topics Discussed / Gear Seen

• My recent backpacking trip on Pennsylvania’s Black Forest Trail.
• Trail Blaze marking protocols?
• Deciding when to bring, or not bring, raingear on backpacking trips.
• Backpacking Coffee on the trail.
• Jiva Coffee Cubes
• Ever heard of a bird called a Killdeer?
• Grouse attack.
• A fresh new hat from Trranscend Fighters
• Yes, the Dutchware Half-Wit Hammock really does work 🙂
• Military Surplus Esbit Stove Option
• My current Esbit stove system

• Hiking Pants
• Stinging Nettles on the Black Forest Trail
• Packit Gourmet’s 10 year anniversary.
• Keith from Connecticut sent a really cool book about Mt McKinnley / Denali
• My goal of one feature length backpacking trip video per month.
• Viewer Raymond suggested a future trip to do the Standing Indian Loop in the North Carolina’s Nantahala National Forest.
• GORUCK GR1 Backpack
• Aiming for a 8 lb backpacking load-out with my new Gregory Optic 48 backpack.
• Any suggestions for a 3 day, 2 night backpacking trip down south?
• Has it really been 4 years since my first, and only, trip to the Smokie Mountains?
• Sawyer 1 gallon gravity filter system for group camping trips.
• 2 gallon gravity water filter setups for backpacking?