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Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum. – Lucretius. On par with or even greater than the importance of gear selection is nutrition and especially hydration. Anytime you get people talking nutrition… watch out! It’s probably worse than talking politics or religion. There are a lot of zealots, […]

This country will kill you in a heartbeat, and people still love it.– Cormac McCarthy I left off last time with a bit of a teaser. If you recall I mentioned that there is nothing like training on the real thing; that’s exactly what we did. A group of us […]

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. – Archilochus In any enterprise such as the one we are currently embarking on there are bound to be bumps in the road. Some unexpected… some… not so much. The ones that are […]

A lot of the initial planning and strategizing had been done by January’s end. The time had come for more action. My training at least was starting to phase change significantly. If you look back to parts 1 and 2 you will no doubt recall I talked a fair bit […]

Leave the ten essentials and all other impedimenta behind – Yvon Chouinard Being a bit of a gear head it should come as no surprise that we were going to have an installment all about the kit we were going to be using. Part of the boots on the ground […]

Why don’t you tell me, lovin’ mama, how you want your rollin’ done?Why don’t you tell me, lovin’ mama, how you want your rollin’ done?Lord, I give you satisfaction, now, if it’s all night long Lord, I got up this morning just about the break of dayLord, I got up […]