Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
In an effort to wear my climbing shoes in, I have been wearing them around the house the past two days. My feet are ridiculously tiny anyways and putting them into my tight rock shoes is almost comical. I have left them loosely laced and I can feel comfort in the toes now where yesterday [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
So in an experiment of online customer support, I submitted RFQs for replacement tent poles at exactly the same time, online, to The North Face and Mountain Hardwear. We’ll see which company gets back to me first, or at all.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Photos of Wendy, Hil and myself (and Stan!) from our NYC weekend.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Hil and I set off for the urban jungle this weekend by driving down to Brooklyn to meet up with Wendy. Aside from the wet start when I spilt an entire large Dunkin’ in Hil’s floorboard, (Hey, at least I didn’t do something else in the floorboard… it wasn’t THAT kind of weekend) it went [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Oh no! I pulled the tents out to see if they have enough stakes, and not only do neither my Mountain Hardwear or TNF tents have stakes, they don’t have any poles either. When we packed them up last time we must have packed the poles seperately and lost them when we moved out from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009 No Comments »
And here are the winch install photos I promised. Flickr solves all woes.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
Victoria went down to NYC for a girls weekend, so I am left to be bored, change fluids on things, and geocache. I knocked five back this morning, discovered a “satanist camp” across the street from my apartment buried in the woods, and picked up a couple D shackles from Tractor Supply.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009 No Comments »
The superwinch went on easily, the job was a bit (but not a lot) easier than doing it on the Discovery with the ARB bumper. It was primarily easier because it basically just sits on a flat piece of sheet steep on the top of the existing bumper/frame combination. All this is “temporary” until my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I have no idea if this actually works, but I ran across an interesting factoid. Apparently the anti-freeze testing tools we all probably use (which really do nothing else but measure the specific gravity of the mix) aren’t the best way to test if the coolant is worn out. Worn out presumably means absorbed a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
So the neat new thing from our second trip up to the White Mountains was Arethusa Falls. Depending on who you believe this is the highest or second-highest waterfall in the northeast area (accounts run from 140 feet to 175 feet). If you want to photograph the waterfall, don’t leave your wide-angle lenses in the [...]