Personal Growth The Regret of Finishing 8 Days on LSHT I completed the LSHT over Thankgiving week in November of 2021 with one of my dearest friends. Our week was full of long days on trail, silly anecdotes, new experiences, and varying degrees of exhaustion. Recovery aside, ending 8 days on a trail had some unexpected side effects, but I&
Gear Reviews Lone Star Hiking Trail Breakdown Stream! Just four LSHT hikers talking about the trail and also talking shop! Join Chris, Rob, Brian, and Brekken for way too much chatter about backpacking stuff!
Educational Brian's LSHT Lighterpack Breakdown! LSHT Mar 2022 - UL Lone Star Hiking Trail March 4-6 2022. Weather: * Friday 3/4: High 75, Low 61, Wind 6-10 mph, Dew Point 46-50 * Saturday 3/5: High 80, Low 67, Wind 9-15 mph, Dew Point 55-57 * Sunday 3/6: Hight 83, Low 66, Wind 8-16 mph, Dew
F' it! We'll do it LIVE! We'll be doing an in person wrap up plus Q&A of our Lone Star Hiking Trail through hike on March 9th, 2022 at 5PM CT! This will be our first attempt at streaming as a group. While I'm an experienced streamer with hundreds of
Trifles Old School Can you identify this stove just from the picture above? No? How about if you heard it's distinctive sound?https://youtu.be/qLwsqcdLbKI This is the grandfather of all modern backpacking stoves. It's a brick by today's standard, but has served generations of backpackers.
Trifles Brian's First Ever BSA Camporee That's me on the right on my knees. This would have been in the fall of 1983. I was a Tenderfoot Scout at the time, after having attended Mount Norris Scout Reservation the summer before. I remember the names of most of the Scouts and adults in the
Personal Growth A 10 hour shower.... When I posted I was hiking 70 miles in 3 days solo in a facebook group a while back, one of the first posts was something to the effect of "You shouldn't hike alone, it is dangerous" Uh... thanks? So yeah, hiking alone can be somewhat
Personal Growth It began on the trail... I have long toyed with the idea of putting together a page just for posting hiking and backpacking related content. In fact, I managed to pull together a small effort recently in the form of austinhiker.com but I just haven't quite had the time or the motivation