New rain coat arrives

We ordered these fancy, high tech rain coat thingys. Ours are matching, but we got difference colors. Here are some pics of us messing around in the new coats and trying on our packs. Enjoy! =)

Pictures from Summer 2009

Here are some images for your reference, from camping trips last summer. Hopefully, we'll later post images of the various items we are currently acquiring.

Stephanie @ the campsite.

Jessica playing with a fire poker.

Us, being silly. =)

Our tiny tent, which has already been replaced (as evidenced by the profile pic - yes we set it up in the apartment upon receipt!)

Longing for the summer

We get these silly ideas, me & Stephanie. And, you see, we're both pretty silly; so, when one of us has a silly idea, we both jump on board... full steam ahead! Which, leads us to this blog you're reading right now. But I'm getting ahead of myself... it all starts last summer actually:

We went camping, only twice. But we thoroughly enjoyed it. So we decided we would go more next summer. So as the winter began to set in, we dreamed of next summer and all the camping we could do. In attempt to keep our appetite satisfied, we would accumulate camping stuff over the long, cold winter. (This also being the season when camping stuff would be on sale, would also maybe help out our pocketbook, or so we thought at the time). I'm actually not sure how she got the idea, but eventually Stephanie asked me if I wanted to try hiking. I'd never been, but I'd do anything with Stephanie, so I said sure. Not too, silly. But it gets there. As we start researching hiking, Stephanie later introduces to me this thing she called "THE 46R's". I didn't know what it was, but it sounded outdoorsy, and lesbionic, so I was all for it. The 46Rs is a group of people who have hiked the 46 designated high peeks of the Adirondack Mountains.

Now, I've never hiked a day in my life. I'm not in particularly good shape & the things I liked about camping were mostly the lazy stuff - sitting around a camp fire, drinking beer, getting away from the hussle & bussle of life. So it was stretch for me to simply agree to attempt to hike a damn mountain & now I've agreed to do 46! and the highest peaks!!

So we're still acquiring all sorts of items the research says we need. We're trying to learn all we can. We're planning camping trips around which mountains we want to hike first. We're planning days off from work & scheduling around grad school classes. We're working through the long cold winter, with dreams of a summer full of the unknown. Hang on, gentle readers... we don't really know we're this will lead.