In constructing and ordering supplies for my latest pack, I stumbled across a fabric I hadn’t seen before. It’s not groundbreaking, but I thought it warranted a spotlight nonetheless. After buying and handling samples, it looks good and feels easy to work with, and should be plenty burly for everything outside of the most demandingContinue reading “slap your eyeballs on a new 500D Cordura variant”
Category Archives: gear design
this pack’s better
And it packs better. I’ve been “reading” through Dave Chenault’s blog recently. Actually, I discovered how to get google to read me articles and have been audiobooking my way through his back catalog over the past month or so. I’m still only to about 2011 and have many many posts to go, but most ofContinue reading “this pack’s better”
shirt happened
It had been a couple years since I started sewing, and I hadn’t tackled any clothing projects. Last summer, I intended to make a button–down, relaxed–fit bike jersey, but the pattern intimidated me a bit and I couldn’t find a material I really wanted to work with. A year or so ago, I also beganContinue reading “shirt happened”
Cross-body update: one for a friend
Highlight photo is a shot of Matt and I in the headwaters of Little Elk Lake Creek in the Marble Mountains. (photo by our friend Julia) Are you sensing a theme? There are a few things that help me get projects done. Either I need it for an upcoming adventure, or I’ve promised a friendContinue reading “Cross-body update: one for a friend”
Krysta’s bar bag
aka a stretch and some new skills A friend recently posted that she had started making themed bracelets as an outlet for creative energy. I’d recently been in a bit of a creative slump (read: unmotivated), so I messaged her to ask if she’d like to do a swap. Bar bag for bracelet. She saidContinue reading “Krysta’s bar bag”
An APEX quilt
As much as I hate to admit it, a lot of my projects live in a barely started or half-finished state until they are desperately needed for a trip. My shoulder season Apex quilt was no different. I’d love to save weight and use down in my insulation pieces, but for as long as IContinue reading “An APEX quilt”
The Duffel
There was a gap in my travel arsenal between the 90L Patagonia black hole duffel my parents had bought me as a high school graduation present and a 30L gym duffel I’d bought with my own hard-earned ice cream scooping money. I really don’t like checking bags when I travel, mostly because I hate standingContinue reading “The Duffel”
The Backpack? Not quite
It started as it always does: with an idea. I wanted to lighten my pack for the 2022 iteration of the Bob Marshall Wilderness open. I didn’t want to spend $400+ on a very nice backpack from any number of excellent small, cottage pack-makers. I did want it to be lighter and smaller than myContinue reading “The Backpack? Not quite”
A bar bag for Korbi
A good friend of mine has the coolest full name I’ve ever come across. I won’t type it all out here, because I’m not sure that he wants his info all over the internet, but I feel like “Korbi” is a good teaser. And it’s what he goes by anyway. Some exposition: Korbi was theContinue reading “A bar bag for Korbi”
Dirt bike frame bag update
You may have seen my first ever post, detailing ideas I had for a frame bag to put on my bicycle. It’s been over a year and a half since that post, and I have not kept up the frequency of posting I had planned initially. Who would’ve guessed. I now find myself looking atContinue reading “Dirt bike frame bag update”
Elliot DH 