Here’s what we use to sanitize our water out on the trail. It uses UV to kill potential nasty junk in the water. I’ve been tempted to switch over to a Sawyer mini-squeeze filter, but this guy has done the trick in the past, so we’re going to start with it at least.
Doing this thru-hike is a largely self-indulgent adventure (but hopefully inspiring!). In the spirit of giving something back, we decided to use our adventure and this blog as an opportunity to try to raise a little money to help fight cancer. We’ve lost close friends and family (notably Rose, Georgia, and Tim) to this disease. We set $2185 as the goal to match up with the amount of miles on the AT this year. Here’s the gofundme website:
http://www.gofundme.com/7g9mqc
Note: gofundme does take a small cut but other than that 100% of anything you can give is going to the American Cancer Society.
Here’s our luxurious cooking stove, the Brasslite Turbo II-D
The battery is only there to provide perspective on how tiny this sucka is.
Here are the packs we are taking.
Gossamear Gear G4.
It’s a frameless pack that gets some shape from the sleeping pad jammed in the back. It tops out at around 30-35lbs of packweight, which is perfect for lightweight backpacking.
It’s my last day at Lutron, so some much deserved razzing is occurring…
This good stuff is courtesy of Ben Bard (from some Holler in West Virginia)
Trying to figure out what to eat 5 months ahead of time is tricky, so we’re going to try to keep a fair amount of variety in the plans. Here’s a typical recipe that I think we’re going to rock a lot of…
http://www.backpacker.com/recipe-american-chop-suey-/skills/16038
We tried this one when we went on our “test” ~90 mile hike last year and it was pretty awesome after a long day of backpacking.
Vacu sealing up some breakfast. This thing goes from suck to blow! (Spaceballs reference for Brax if you didn’t get that)
This is close to the spelling of a town in Georgia on the trail. Random…?