Last time I posted a Randomography with park photos, it was minus one human in our family:
http://www.thisisreverb.com/2009/07/randomography-park-season.html
I think I like the new addition. He’s cool and he can hang with the big dogs.
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that God might feel. – G.K. Chesterton
– This is one of those items where I think you have to pay a little bit more money if you don’t want to be in agony. Cheap backpacks just don’t allow the weight of what you’re carrying to rest properly on you. We are carrying approximately 40lb packs and you don’t want to be dead halfway up the mountain.
– Since we are packing our sleeping bags with us, they need to be small. Many people make the mistake of getting a sleeping bag that is good down to zero degrees…are you really going to be sleeping somewhere where it’s zero degrees?? This will only add extra weight and size. A 40 degree bag is typically much more compact and comfortable to sleep in.
– Oh Lord God in Heaven…thank you for the blessed sleeping mat. When you’re sleeping on a rock, it’s absolutely critical to have some sort of sleeping mat under you. It helps to keep you warm as well as able to move the next day.
– You do not want to get up and pee in the middle of the night in Honduras without a headlamp. There are many other uses for this, but I will stick with my first point.
– Nalgene bottles are pretty much unbreakable and they allow for a variety of attachments for water filtration. We carry two of these with us during the big hikes.
– With a group of 18 of us, it might be good for 2 of us to have some sort of water filters. We WILL run out of water during our hikes in and out of the mountains. We need the ability to stop at a stream and filter water for the team. These pumps attach right to the water bottles.
– I thought these were a dumb idea at first, then my knees wanted to kill me when I wasn’t using them. They are much more useful when traveling down a mountain than up one…you’re poles can take the shock that you’re knees would be taking. Must have for those of us with knee problems.
– This stuff becomes an addiction. When there is no real way to wash your hands for several days, hand sanitizer becomes your best buddy. Plus, it keeps you safe from most of the stomach bombs that are trying to infiltrate your body.
– In an area that has a high concentration of Malaria carrying mosquitos, 100% Deet is a must.
– It says “triple action” and I think the three actions are; PREVENTS CHAFFING, STOPS CHAFFING, and SOOTHES CHAFFING. Once again, thank you Lord for whoever invented Gold Bond.
