Field notes, gear breakdowns, and the story of building Kairn.
A full pack doesn't mean a ready one. The three questions a gear list can't answer — is each item trip-ready, does the plan's math hold, is it staged right — and how to run the check before the trailhead.
Read →A middle-of-the-pack ultrarunner and backcountry hunter got tired of keeping the same "did I forget something?" list twice — so he built one place to hold it all.
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