My girlfriend and I like to backpack, but my gear wasn’t really up to snuff. Especially my Craigslist acquired sleeping bag. I paid less than 20$ for it, but it had to weigh 10lbs, and took up 2/3rds of my backpack. All that extra weight resulted in one of the nastiest heel blisters you have [...]

In an earlier post I raved about the Gerber Back Paxe which is made by Fiskars. So when time came for a new pair of hedge shears I jumped on these. They have a 3x toothed gear on them to make cutting branches much easier. They were even awarded the Arthritis Foundation® Ease-of-Use Commendation. The [...]