www.PeteWilk.comEric Parsons started an idea of going to Scandinavia a while ago. His idea was to travel sometime in 2010. Parsons being how he is, he needed a little prodding to pick a time to go. With a rough date picked Jon Crim, Chrystal, and I all committed to going, with Chrystal showing up a […]
I took a self rescue class over the weekend and learned a bunch of great techniques to help me whenclimbing and something goes wrong. Self rescue techniques are pretty straight forward, when looking at them on paper, but trying to recreate them without assistance gets a little tougher. I took these photos so I would […]
After missing a fall 2009 backpacking trip I was itching to organize another for the spring. The trip I took a couple weekends ago with Chrystal, Ben, and Eric was great and I really wanted to get out again. After scouring my AT book and maps I was able to find a good section of […]
This weekend, April 17-18, Dave Forsberg and I finally got around to replacing our timing belts. His 1997 Subaru Outback has over 200k miles on it and he doesn’t know when the belt was changed. My 2004 WRX has 108k miles and Subaru recommends replacing it at 105k. Rather than tackling this maintenance individually we […]
I wanted to take Chrystal out for her first backpacking trip. I had thought about doing something really simple like just a couple miles, but she said she wanted to do something a little more challenging. I found a great hike in my AMC’s Best Backpacking in New England book. The book had a great […]