This fall I’m going to experiment with doing a weekend post. The intention is to give you an update on what we’re doing at WildSnow HQ as well as provide a summary of the previous week’s posts in case you missed anything. It will be light and brief — something you can breeze through if you happen to be web surfing before the busy work week begins. Let us know what you think.
Lou goes water dowsing.
Like marching ants, we joined other highway travelers and headed back home from Summer Outdoor Retailer 2014. At the show we saw lots of innovative items for backcountry ski touring. I’ll post my take of cool mountaineering stuff soon. Then we’ll field test products over the next few months and post in-depth reviews as is our style — beautiful form is seductive but function has to follow in order to pass muster here at WildSnow.
This summer we’ve been spending our weekends working on WildSnow HQ, knowing, hoping, praying that our preparations will result in a long, deep winter of snowy bliss. One of Lou’s projects is upgrading our water delivery system.
Lou will continue to try to find water with a willow. In the meantime he hooked up a hose from the water tank. WildSnow HQ has running water! According to His Blogness, ‘PEX plumbing is amazing, so easy to create compared to soldering or threading pipe.’ It looked to me like an excuse to buy more tools, that is until the faucet appeared. (System is a 400 gallon tank up the hill a ways. In winter we access with a freeze-proof hose bib near the tank. In summer we have it run to the cabin.)
WildSnow Girl, Rachel Bellamy, helping the boys pack up for South America.
As a preview to my post next week, here’s one of the cool things I found at the OR Show — a cutting board for the cabin. The Epicurean booth caught my eye because the material they use looks like toxic Masonite press board. Come to find the boards are made of food grade, recycled materials. I liked their made-in-the-USA story:
Epicurean cutting boards and cooking utensils come in many shapes and forms. They also produce custom-shaped boards with engraved logos or images. I like this one which features a food strainer.
Back in 2004, Epicurean’s owners were riding success in the skate park industry. They had founded TrueRide, a designer and manufacturer of municipal skate parks and ramps in the late 1990s. They launched Epicurean to make cutting boards
For a picnic at the cabin, I whipped up a quinoa salad. When summer veggies are fresh and ripe sometimes we like to eat them without dressing, just mixed together to enjoy the garden fresh flavor. I chopped up these veggies on our new board and they tasted goood.
Here’s a recap of last week’s posts:
Mysteries of Pomoca and Dynafit Climbing Skins — Review Pomoca ski climbing skins, different models can be confusing. Lou sorts it out.
Wear an Orange — Petzl Sirocco Helmet Review Louie’s review of Petzl Sirocco climbing helmet.
WildSnow South America 2014 — Soon Traveling in South America, visiting Chile for backcountry skiing in area of Chillan and Las Trancas.
Outdoor Retailer — Short Walk to the Mylar Lou’s view of Summer Outdoor Retailer 2014.
Boys Go Shopping — Summer Outdoor Retailer Joe Risi and Randy Young cruise through the show.
WildSnow Girl, Lisa Dawson, is the luckiest girl in the world. Also known as Mrs. WildSnow.com, she tests whatever gear she wants. She gives the WildSnow family of websites the feminine voice.
