Thursday, August 12, 2021

Review: Lithium

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 Lithium is the story of the medical uses of lithium salts, its discovery of the application of it to bipolar disorder by John Cade in Aus...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Glacier National Park 2021: June 26th Mt Aeneas

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 The morning came, and we drove up again on another dirt road to get to the trail head, this time it was even steeper and more washboarded,...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Glacier National Park 2021: Prologue

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 When considering our summer vacation this year, we had several constraints. The big one was that we didn't expect to be able to have th...
Monday, August 09, 2021

Review: Day Hiking Glacier National Park and Western Montana

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 I thought about buying a map for my visit to Glacier National Park, but the problem with modern trail hiking maps is that they don't ac...
Thursday, August 05, 2021

Review: Deadliest Enemy

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 There's been a plethora of books about the pandemic, but I wanted one that wasn't written to cash-in on the COVID19 pandemic, so pi...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Long Term Review: Matador Beast Backpack

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 I've been using the Matador Beast 28 for a year, and I've been surprised at how much I use it. I use it as a hydration pack when m...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Review: Journey to the Edge of Reason

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 Journey to the Edge of Reason is Stephen Budiansky's biography of Kurt Godel. If you're a computer scientist or mathematician, you...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Review: Light & Motion Vis 500

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 There was a Prime Day sale on the highly rated Light & Motion Vis 500 , low enough for me to replace the much used (and now worn out) B...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Review: SQR Saddlebag Quick Release System

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 I've always used saddlebags by tying them to the saddlebag loops on my bike. I recently decided to try visiting the office, now that I...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Review: Camelbak Hot Cap Vacuum Mug

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 REI had a sale for the Hot Cap Vacuum Mug for $5.73. The normal price on Amazon was around $15, so this was too good to pass up.  The most...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Review: The Gardener and the Carpenter

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 The Gardener and the Carpenter begins with an audacious declaration: parenting is a terrible invention. It hasn’t improved th...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Review: Nemo Tensor Sleeping Pad

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 I sleep warm, so much so that I use a 30 year old North Face Blue Kazoo sleeping bag and think it's perfectly fine, despite it having l...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Review: Camelbak Mag Chute Waterbottles

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 There's an REI sale right now on the Camelbak Chute Mag Water Bottle . At the price they're being offered, it was worth getting the...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Review: Garmin InReach Mini

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 I will admit that in all the times I've been backcountry camping, I've never actually needed an SOS device. That's a good thing...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Review: Beginners

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 Beginners 's subtitle makes zero reference to the most important part of the book, which is that it's actually a book about parenti...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Review: Ghost of Tsushima (PS5)

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 I'm learning the professional game reviewers play games very differently from those of us with day jobs that don't involve games, s...
Thursday, July 08, 2021

Review: The Sum of Us

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 The Sum of Us  has a pretty non-controversial thesis - that the world we live in is not a zero-sum world, that when we introduce benefits l...
Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Review: Camping Solar Shower Bag 5gallons

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 I'm old enough to remember the Sunshower, which I never learned to setup properly. But with my wife balking at a 2 night camping trip, ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Chiluana Falls Backpack

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 Arturo suggested Chilnualna Falls as a place in Yosemite that nobody ever considers for a backcountry camping trip, and indeed when I look...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Review: Radium Girls

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 Radium Girls is the story of the dial painters for the Radium Corporation,  how it recruited women to pain watch dials and other instrument...