I received a couple of packages yesterday.\u00a0 I now have my bear canister and my micro-spikes.\u00a0 I also needed to buy a new water filter because I was stupid…<\/p>\n
My original plan was to wait to buy the gear I needed for the Sierra Mountains.\u00a0 After calculating the time that it would take to get to Kennedy Meadows, I began to realize that there really wasn’t much time to do that.\u00a0 Shipping stuff home and then to Kennedy Meadows two weeks in advance takes time.<\/p>\n
The Bear Vault BV500 is heavy and carrying that through the mountains is going to suck.\u00a0 It weighs 41 ounces.\u00a0 My backpack weighs 49!\u00a0 I’m not sure how I’m going to store up to eight days worth of food in there.\u00a0 By then I’ll have hiker legs and some real thru-hiking cooking experience, so I’m not too worried about it.<\/p>\n
My Kahtoola micro-spikes are something I can use in Wisconsin, so they are not just for the Sierras.\u00a0 It is possible that if there is a late snow in Southern California, I could end up needing them early, so they are good to have.<\/span><\/p>\n Right now, I didn’t order and ice axe.\u00a0 We’ll see how things shape up.\u00a0 Most people in 2015 didn’t need one, and 2018 is looking more-and-more like 2015 for snow in the Sierra Mountains.<\/p>\n I’ve updated my Will.\u00a0 It needed to be updated now that my kids are much older.\u00a0 The only change really has to do if both my wife and I pass away at the same time.<\/p>\n Oh yeah.\u00a0 My water filter.\u00a0 Um.\u00a0 I broke it.\u00a0 As I wrote on Sunday, I gathered everything together and reweighed it.\u00a0 I packed it up like I will hike on April 6th.\u00a0 I slid my water filter in the back pouch.\u00a0 Monday, I did my normal nine-mile hike with my pack on.\u00a0 The temperature was in the single digits and the water bottles started to freeze.\u00a0 What was in the pouch?\u00a0 My water filter.\u00a0 Freezing the filter breaks it.\u00a0 I connected it up and tried to run water through it, but it started to leak out the side.\u00a0 So…\u00a0 That was dumb.\u00a0 It was a good hike, though.\u00a0 Nine miles in 2.5 hours or about 3.5 m.p.h.<\/p>\n That is an important lesson I’m glad I learned before I was on the trail.\u00a0 I won’t do that again.\u00a0 This weekend is shaping up like a good weekend to get in a 15 mile hike.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received a couple of packages yesterday.\u00a0 I now have my bear canister and my micro-spikes.\u00a0 I also needed to buy a new water filter because I was stupid… My original plan was to wait to buy the gear I needed for the Sierra Mountains.\u00a0 After calculating the time that it would take to get … Continue reading More Tasks Checked Off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}