by katie.d | Jun 3, 2016 | camping, field journal, Naked & Afraid, survival, Travel
I gasp for breath and jolt awake. It’s midnight in the bushveld, a thorny desert woodland typical of Southern Africa. !Tuka the old grey Bushman hunter was squatting by the fire. He paid me no mind sitting up in the soft sand. The air was sharp cold but still my...
by katie.d | Sep 27, 2014 | blog, field journal
Elk Hunting: Merkel K3 Stutzen Jagd .308 Over the last few years, it has been on the back burner to get myself into a backcountry hunt in my backpacking style, which involves light and fast foot travel over great distances each day, a long distance from roads or other...
by katie.d | Sep 10, 2014 | blog, field journal
5 summits, 1 stove. Or how I came to love my Svea. Part 1. Primus 71 and Svea123r Well the biggest question from critics along the way, and what you are probably asking right now, is what is a SVEA 123r and why the hell would you use it, especially for alpine...
by katie.d | Jul 23, 2014 | blog, field journal
Alpine Skills Course, Mt Baker. June 2014 Mt Baker, visible from the sea. It is 10,780 feet tall and 30 miles inland form my boat. I came into the 6 day course with a good background of climbing on my own and with the school. I hoped to learn some basic...
by katie.d | Jul 21, 2014 | blog, field journal
Colorado Mountain College Snow-O 2nd Weekend The next week the weather changed dramatically. It was much warmer in the high 20s at night and probably in the high 40’s during the day. To make things worse there was alternatively hot sun than wet snow falling on...
by katie.d | Jul 21, 2014 | blog, field journal
Colorado Mountain College Snow Orientation Part 2 Sorry for the late post, its damned past summer now and this post is about skiing. How I miss the snow. Our Instructor is an experienced ski mountaineer, Her name is Vic Kerr she is small statured Scot. Serious...
