So you decided to take a lovely weekend and spend it with mother nature! Awesome, I love mother nature as well. But what do you take? Maybe this is your first weekend trip or your a beginner at this backpacking game. Maybe you have been on some trips and are just looking for some supplemental information on a different perspective. No matter how you made it here, thanks for reading and I hope you find the information useful. So lets get down too it! Backpack: I recommend a li

So you have decided to get away from the craziness and hit the back country! Awesome, I love hitting it as well. But what do you take? Maybe this is your first trip or your a beginner at this backpacking game. Maybe you have been on some trips and are just looking for some supplemental information on a different perspective. No matter how you made it here, thanks for reading and I hope you find the information useful. So lets get down too it! Backpack: I recommend a lightweig

One quick look around the internet world will get you confused on what the hell you need in a SHTF situation. Do you need food, water, toilet paper (ask the wife for coupons!), fire making kit, etc.? Well there are some things that are needs, like absolute needs. While other things are wants. You need certain things to live when our turn the faucet of easy living gets turned off. They might not seem important now because life is easy as hell for the most part. When the dollar

The MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2 Person tent looks like a winner! This MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2 Person tent boasts being lightweight, packs small, made of modern materials and is easy to setup/pitch. Some of the top things this MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2 Person tent shows me is it is pretty roomy with 39" of headroom and 25" of width per person for sleeping pads. Ventilation in this MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2 Person tent is awesome. I reviewed the MSR Holler 2p tent in the past and it was lacking ve

The MSR Holler, 3 person tent, is a decent tent with some short comings. The MSR Holler Tent is the tent that could be great, but is held back by a bad design when it comes to ventilation, or the lack of it. With there only being one band of mesh around three quarters of the way to the top, it really makes this tent unlivable during the summer, and when you present it with the challenge of limiting condensation it fails time and time again. We have guy'd out this MSR Holler T