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A 3 Season Bikepacking Clothing System

by Andy Amick

My fashion sense is a little whacked.  Ok, a lot of whacked.  I have no problem wearing cuben fiber knickers or a short sleeve down jacket.  For bikepacking, my mantra is definitely function over form.  If there was a great wool baselayer that only came in purple with red polka dots, I’d have no problem […]

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Bikepacking Clothing For Extreme Conditions

by Andy Amick

Spring has sprung which means summer bikepacking trips are on the mind.  But before winter disappeared, I decided to give my bikepacking clothing an extreme shakedown on a recent snowy, windy, and cold afternoon.  Even if your bikepacking trips are in the summer, you never know what kind of weather you might encounter on the […]

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Don’t Let Emergencies Stress Your Finances

by Andy Amick

This is the final post in a three part series on reducing the stress of personal finance. Each post details a simple technique to reduce financial headaches.  Previous posts discussed using a personal escrow account to help smooth out yearly or irregular payments and using the envelope method to smooth out monthly spending.  This post focuses […]

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Toothpaste Dots Are Not My Friend

by Andy Amick

Or as my kids would say – Epic fail!!  Making the dots was easy, but actually using them for toothpaste was the hard part. Some experiments in lightening your camping setup result in failures and that’s ok.  They either become too lightweight and don’t hold up, or they are too uncomfortable.  For this attempt, the […]

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Less Financial Stress With The Envelope Method

by Andy Amick

This is the second post in a three part series on reducing the stress of personal finance. Each of the posts will detail a simple technique to reduce financial headaches.  The first post discussed using a personal escrow account to help smooth out yearly or irregular payments.  This post focuses on smoothing out monthly spending. […]

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J.Paks SnakCan Review

by Andy Amick

Last summer while riding my local trails, I ran into another singlespeeder.  We rode together and started talking about bikepacking and his friend that makes bikepacking bags. Ain’t mountain biking great? The friend he mentioned was Joe Tonsager who makes J.Paks bikepacking bags.  After looking over Joe’s website, I could tell that the bags are […]

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Less Financial Stress By Using A Personal Escrow Account

by Andy Amick

This is the first in a three part series on reducing the stress of personal finance.  Each of the posts will detail a simple technique to reduce financial headaches. The Personal Escrow Account Creating a separate savings account for irregular expenses has been the single biggest stress reliever related to my personal finances.  The idea […]

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Hiking Stick With Paracord Spiral Hitched Handle

by Andy Amick

My sons and I have each made hiking sticks from limbs that I trimmed in the yard.  My kids used aspen and mine was made from a maple branch.  Each stick used a different paracord wrap and somehow my kids were able to choose different ones without arguing about which design was better.  Amazing. My […]

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Tanya Koob Explores The Canadian Rockies

by Andy Amick

In early 2012, I came across Tanya’s blog Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies as I was looking at stories of other parents taking their kids on outdoor trips.  My kids and I get out on a regular basis, but nothing like Tanya and her family.  Almost every weekend, they are out hiking, camping, SUPing, […]

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Path to Less…Sodium

by Andy Amick

Did you know that a Chipotle tortilla has 50% more sodium than those Clif Bloks that taste like an excellent salted margarita?  We all know the benefits of eating healthy – more veggies, no trans fat, more organic, less sweets, etc – but an often overlooked ingredient in our attempt to eat healthy is sodium. […]

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