Published on
April 30, 2007 in
General.
Our Gear:
Laine and I have two complete sets of camping gear, one for comfort/car camping and one for backpacking/cycling camping. The only thing we really don’t have is a big stove for comfort camping…
Sleeping bags:
Woods Thinsulate Liteloft 5º/0º Celcius for backpacking (Laine and Andy)
Escort Queen Size Sleeping Bag for comfort camping
Mattresses:
Eureka! Air Rest Packer Lite 48x20x1.5″ for backpacking (Andy)
Thermarest ProLite 3 S for backpacking (Laine)
Escort Queen Size Mattress for comfort camping
Pack:
Eureka! Archimedes 70MT (Andy),
MEC Cragalot 48L Backpack (Laine)
Tent:
Eureka! Spitfire Duo for backpacking
Ozark Trail 4 person tent for comfort camping.
Cooking set:
Northern Escape 7-pc Stainless Steel Cookset for backpacking,
Woods 13-Pc Enamel Campware Set for comfort camping
Stove:
Coghlan Folding Stove
Ecoflame Gel Fuel
Our Bikes:
2006 Rocky Mountain Vapour (Laine)
Laine bought her bike in the spring of 2006 and chose the Rocky Mountain mostly because she liked the way my bike felt and cause I may have pressured her a little! She opted to go for the slightly cheaper Vapour model as it had received a few upgrades and was really closer to 2005′s Soul model.
I bought my Rocky Mountain from Smooth Cycle the spring of 2005 after one season of commuting with an undersized, decrepit CCM rigid mountain bike and deciding that if I was going to commute on a regular basis it would be worth it to do it in comfort and on a bike that would last. I also had been watching Dropin TV a lot by this point and the bug of actual offroad mountain biking had grabbed me! I did some research and decided, that while a little more costly, the Rocky Mountain’s bikes appealed to me for their build quality and made in Canada status.
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Will be updated further soon!
As some of you may have heard, our house plans have changed a little. We are going from a 1800+ sqft timberframed strawbale monstrousity to <1100sqft hybrid stick frame strawbale cottage.
We decided we were designing beyond our needs and our means. We are now hoping to spend well under 100k and have a tiny mortgage and then add on if we need to, or rebuild in the future if we are in a position to do so.
The plans are done and the details should be shortly and we’ll post them for everyone to see. What this also means is that we can start building this spring and have everything ready for the fall when the bales arrive. It also means a more relaxed building schedule that won’t be so reliant on me getting a month off my new job.
In other news, I am on week 2 of a crappy cold and hoping it goes away soon so I can start running again! One of the last times I ran I did 4.5K and I can’t wait to get out and put a 5k under my belt!
