(part 2 of my ongoing coffee series)
The French press is probably the way I make coffee at camp most frequently. And surveying my friends’ campsites it seems to be the most popular with them as well.
Continue reading “Camp Coffee (French Style)”Simple but labor intensive, I told my wife she only gets one of these per year. We decided on dry stacked concrete blocks for the beds the winter after we bought the new house.
Slept in the Poler for two separate nights now. Both cold nights, one in heavy winds, one still.
I’ve been on a lifelong journey to find the best way to make coffee at camp. And like all things in life, it’s the art of balancing comprises to find the thing that’s best for you.
This is the first backpacking stove I ever bought (Spring 2001, probably). And my first liquid fuel Coleman appliance. I had a fuel leak below the valve, so it’s time for a rebuild.
The ridge line is a critical, but fairly simple part of the tarp setup. I started with a 50’ length of reflective paracord. Some people use a 30′ long line, this one may become shorter in the future.
Some people don’t like paracord, but it’s a known quantity for me and I’m not convinced that the alternatives are significantly better.
My ridge line starts with a bowline. The bowline never gets untied.
I was gifted a 3D printer by a buddy who upgraded his. This weekend I finally got around to trying it out.
Or, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I’m an over planner. There’s no arguing it.
My very first boss drilled into my head “We never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it again.”
Continue reading “The Power of Iterative Engineering”We bought the house from a flipper who “redid” the 45 year old kitchen. And by redid, I mean he replaced the old solid wood cabinets with the cheapest builder grade particleboard cabinets he could source. (My neighbors are still rocking the original cabinets, and while dated, theirs are holding up better than mine.)
After three years of use by my kids, hinge screws are starting to pull out of the cabinet frames.
Continue reading “Screw hole repair / upgrade”The basic stakes included with most tents are terrible. One that came with the tarp bent the first time I put it in the ground.
The MSR mini groundhogs are a joy to use, though they are quite painful if you try to push them in by hand. No worries on that though, they are short enough that they are easy to push in with your boots.
Continue reading “MSR Mini Groundhogs”
Modern Anachronist 