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Backpacking Food

by Avery August 10, 2020 in Backpacking, Cooking Comments are Disabled

Favorites (in no particular order) Beef crumbles – mix in Process: 90/10 ground beef cooked, mixed with sourdough bread crumbles, and dehydrated at 165 until dry. Notes: Throw in water immediately while bringing it up to boil. Shallots – mix in Process: Slice and roast shallots until translucent and there […]

Click’s Creek Trip Report

by Avery August 3, 2020 in Backpacking, Fishing, Sequoia National Forest 1 comment

Aaron, Morgan, Nathan, and I left for the Golden Trout Wilderness at 5 am from the Bay Area. Following the advice from Tim Huckaby, we got to Click’s Creek Trailhead (1) around 10:30 and immediately set off to catch goldens in Click’s Creek. Unfortunately, it seems we were a little […]

Hetch Hetchy Backpacking Trip Report

by Avery July 10, 2020 in Backpacking, Fishing, Yosemite Comments are Disabled

Trip report from Beehive Meadows -> Rancheria Falls at Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite.

Sourdough Discard Orange Cranberry Muffins

by Avery April 30, 2020 in Baking, Sourdough Comments are Disabled

Makes 12

Drag-N-Fly Half Marathon Race Report

by Avery September 14, 2019 in Running Comments are Disabled

The day started at 5am when our alarms went off. Morgan (who had been “carbo-loading” for the week prior) had oatmeal. Avery had tomato bread, and egg, and some cheese. They had laid out all their half marathon stuff out ahead of time. Morgan had a new running backpack. This […]

Sourdough with Zoey5

by Avery September 9, 2019 in Baking, Bread Comments are Disabled

Zoey5 came to me from some friends (Andrew and Karissa who we run, climb, and backpack with) who had taken a sourdough bread class and had extra starter. Theirs was named Zoey3, but they said Zoey4 was already taken by someone else. So my portion of the starter became Zoey5. […]

Emigrant Wilderness Backpacking

by Avery September 5, 2019 in Backpacking, Emigrant Wilderness, Fishing Comments are Disabled

Day 1 Aaron met Avery and Morgan at their house at 5:40. It was an easy and uneventful drive to the Pinecrest ranger station. After getting their backpacking permit, they headed to Crabtree Trailhead and were on the trail by ~10am. On the way to their first lake they decided […]

Backyard Chickens

by Avery October 26, 2016 in Home Comments are Disabled

Backyard chickens We live in a small house with just a patio backyard, so it never felt like an option to keep chickens until we move to a larger house. But after months of pining, Morgan finally said, “lets get the chickens”. I did a lot of research on which […]

Norwegian Style Mittens

by Avery August 4, 2016 in Crafts, Knitting Comments are Disabled

Ever since I went to Norway in 2015, I’ve regretted not getting a knitted sweater as a souvenir. While browsing free mitten patterns on Ravelry, I came across this Norwegian style pattern. So I decided to give it a go! This is 4mm needles and DK weight wool yarn from […]

Salt point and goat rock

by Avery January 13, 2016 in Climbing Comments are Disabled

Building a jive-ass anchor… Jk! We used a few cams and slung a really big rock. The rock wasn’t wet on the top. Morgan the guinea pig. Anchor seems solid! You can’t see in the picture, but underneath us is a 20ft fall onto jagged rocks and water. There are […]