Monthly Archives: October 2008

Backpacking: AT – Swatara Gap to PA 501

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Bone

Girtong has never been backpacking before, but he’s been reading trailournals all summer, and so he wanted to try it out. We scraped together enough borrowed equipment to outfit him for adventure and headed for the Appalachian Trail. Yesterday morning, … Continue reading →

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Journey of a Thousand Miles

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Bone

Did you know that if you hike all 798 miles of State Forest Hiking Trails in Pennsylvania, they give you an award? Well, they do. You get a certificate, a patch, and a “ceremonial walking stick.” I would really like … Continue reading →

Posted in Camping, Hiking, Trail Award Quest | 4 Comments

Ich will ein Titan Trockenbrennstoff-Kocher

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Bone

So, I’m looking through the German version of the Esbit catalog (pdf), and look what I find. That’s right, bitches. It’s a Trockenbrenstoff-Kocher. For those of you who don’t sprechen the Deutsch, that means super-bad-ass esbit stove. It weighs .4 … Continue reading →

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Backpacking: West Canada Lake Wilderness

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Bone

This past weekend, I went with my Evil Sister and Klinutus to backpack around the West Canada Lake Wilderness in the Adirondacks. We left immediately after work on Thursday night, as it’s a 9 hour drive from Harrisburg. We finally … Continue reading →

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LVRT Extension Map

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Bone

So, I did a little digging in the TIGER data and the Yahoo Satellite images, and I was able to figure out where the proposed extension to the LVRT will be. You can see it as a dashed blue line … Continue reading →

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