and it begins...

...well, the planning and training, but not the actual hiking. I am spending a month in Seattle with Tom, and we are doing a lot of planning and gear shopping. We keep working and re-working our packing lists, visiting used gear shops in the city, and the other day we spent a few hours perusing the gigantic REI Flagship Shop. I now have an appropriately small and light and warm sleeping bag, and Tom and I found a good deal on trekking poles. Tom also got me a new pair of light-mid weight hiking boots (La Sportiva) for a Christmas present (what a great guy). The one big concern that we are still researching is stoves. We (mainly Tom) have been reading a lot about different alcohol stoves and efficiency. And we have been contemplating delicious camp meals that accommodate his vegan and my gluten free restrictions- so, mostly corn pasta.

But we are excited to use this blog to review some of our gear, talk about camp cooking (specifically vegan and gluten free), and discuss our hiking plans and training schedules. Once we really get the blog rolling, we hope to integrate videos, and then once we are on the trail we are trying to find a third party to enter in our journal entries from afar.

Happy New Year!