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Comics: Backpacking with Kids
When my daughter was younger I wrote, illustrated and shared an online web comic about fatherhood. It documented some of the quirky things we did and used some of the funny things she said as the heartbeat of the jokes. The comics are mostly still (mostly) online at www.piday.ca but to save readers from trotting
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Backpacking: Stumped for Entertain-ment
We usually pack light for any long backpacking adventure, but bringing along a book or a pack of cards is worth the small additional weight, even if it turns out there is no table to play on at the top. For whatever one photo is worth: In 2018 we did a multi-day backpacking trip up
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Gear: CRKT Tactical Folding Blade
I’ve had a couple trusty knives in my possession for nearly as long as I can remember. And this week in my Thursday Tuck & Tech post (where I’m making an inventory of the gear I use or would like to add to my collection) I’m digging into a blade I was given by my
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Cracking Woods
(serialized fiction) My watch had just chirped marking thirty minutes into my run, so it must have been about half past six in the morning. A gust of wind shoved its way through the wooded ravine. The trees responded in a wave. A roar of a hundred million rustling leaves built in crescendo puncutated by
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Backpacking: Lakeside Cookout
Thirty seconds after I took this photo, I took a second version using the panorama picture mode on my iPhone. That second photo is the desktop wallpaper on my computer monitor as I started writing this post. For whatever one photo is worth: In the summer of 2017 we trekked up the skirt of Mount