I found a store-wide discount at an outdoor brand’s shop that made really high tech stuff. I told my spouse and she said “the kids really want to get into backpacking but all we have is heavy, thick car camping stuff, or old REI backpacking stuff from the 1990s. We should use that code to …
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The Milky Way
When I was 19, my uncle Joe—who lived in Arizona—asked if I wanted to join his twice-yearly backpacking trip down into the Grand Canyon. I’d never hiked more than a couple miles in my life, and he was asking if I wanted to sign on to pretty serious trip: five days of hiking about 40 …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 