Sunday, March 30, 2014

Dehydrated

What does anyone really know about dehydrated foods?

I've been jumping around Pinterest and I've found many a website dedicated to dehydrated camping food. But is any of it really good?

I'm excited to find out for myself! I was thinking for my upcoming birthday I'd like to buy myself a food dehydrator. Any ideas on good ones? There's other options too, like sun-drying and oven-drying. I think my roomie would freak a little if I said I needed to dry something in the oven for 12 hours -- huge waste of electricity!

I'm glad I have so long between now and 2017. I like food. A lot. And I don't want to have the same thing over and over and over and over again if I don't like it, if I'm just eating it for the calories and not for pleasure.

Hm. Makes me sound snobby.

But really! With all the advances we have, there shouldn't be a reason your dehydrated camping food isn't super nummy.

Off for more investigations!

Cheers!
LC

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Another Site . . .

Thanks, Liz, from Young Adventuress! I've just been introduced to the wonder that is Trover. It's like Pinterest for travelers. But better. With amazing pictures and maps and other colorful things, oh my!

OK... so I'm just figuring it out. You'll have to bear with me.

But really! Go take a look (at both Trover and YA)!

Cheers!
LC

PNT

I was bored at work and decided I'd like to go on a hike for my weekend. I was looking around at the different hikes I usually go on in the Mountain Loop Highway and they're all pretty much closed or inaccessible or they're covered in snow (ew). So I thought I'd switch my direction and see about hiking out on Chuckanut Drive. I've never hiked there and wanted to check out the Oyster Dome. While perusing the Washington Trail Association website, I stumbled across a name: Pacific Northwest Trail.

Huh.

I've heard of the Pacific Crest Trail (obviously, since this blog is dedicated to it) but this is a new one. Further research reveals the PNT is a 1,200 mile system which runs from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Dived. Sweet! Maybe I'll hike a bit of it as preparations for the PCT get nearer? A bit more of an investigation is surely a must!

(courtesy of the PNT website)

Cheers!
LC

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

More info about the PCT



For those of you who don't know, the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a hiking trail which runs from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. It's approximately 2,663 miles long. In 2013, about 750 people attempted the entire thru-hike.

I've known about this hike for a few years now. I've been telling myself "I'm gonna do it!" for the last year or so. I hadn't really thought about it since January of this year. While I was bored at work one night recently, I stumbled upon a lovely blog of an Australian who's hiking name is Muk Muk. Check out her amazing adventures on the PCT! And after you're finished there, head over to her new blog, Serial Nomad. She's currently on the Camino de Santiago in Spain! She'll spend 30-ish days traveling that and then go back to the real world. She's a huge role-model for me right now. She's lived a dream few can comprehend and she's not letting it slow her down now that she's lived it.

What great motivation! I even got my uncle excited about it. He says he'll go with me. 

We'll see. 

;-)

(courtesy of Google Image Search)

MukMuk has gotten me excited again about planning the trail. Her notes are super amazing and her advice is super amazing and she's just super amazing. Seriously, go read her. 

If nothing else, check out her videos about her encounter with a mountain lion... 

Cheers!
LC

Monday, March 24, 2014

Pants on Fire

(courtesy of Google Image search)

My, my, my . . . aren't I the liar?!

I told myself I was going to update this website every week, at least once . . . and then I went 6-ish weeks without a single peep.

I do declare, my liar-pants are indeed on fire.

Please send in the firemen. ;-)

I've come to this conclusion: I'm allowed to have more than one blog. I think I was feeling too overwhelmed with this one -- I wanted to talk about my 30th birthday and juicing and fitness and Pinterest and traveling . . . way too much! CountDownfor30 will be dedicated to my endeavors towards my 30th birthday in 2017 (hiking the PCT and getting more tattoos, to name a few things). I've created a new blog called See Ya On The Fit Side! because I love a good pun. (Get it? See ya on the flip side? Teehee!) That blog will be dedicated to my health and progress towards running my first 10K (May) and half marathon (June). Both are quite exciting and both are approaching swiftly!

Between the two blogs, I'm hoping to update weekly. ;-)

Cheers!
LC