Taking off shortly, joining an expedition to the very beating heart of the North-Central Casades in search of stars, fresh caught mtn trout and high country solitude. This is the second backapck of my life not taken alone so its still new to me but the crew is a good one and we will have our times Im sure.
Two nights in the Wilderness is always just what you need, no matter what. The snow level hit 6000′ last night, the bears are out in full force getting last minute berries so I cant imagine any better possible time to go: Freezing temps and marauding bears.

Heres something for your weekend:

The “color photo craze” continues, this time with Hitler and Co. Its hard not to look at over and over again. Most of these were just released for the first time ever. Hitler up close and in color.

Its honey harvest time over at Shipwreck Honey and there is a another video in the works, keep an eye out: Shipwreck Honey.

I discovered The Awl last week when researching Juggalo’s and Juggalette’s. I hit the jackpot, this blog is one of my new favorite places. See for yourself: The Awl: Be Less Stupid.

Since Winter seems in a hurry to get here I thought its a good a time as any to unroll this years #hashtag for shred. Last year we used #stokeland to let our twitter homies know what was up and where we were; this year when in the mountains on the shred, use this: #gnarnia