“In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the son of legendary Alaskan explorer Roman Dial walked alone into the untracked rainforest of Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast. ‘I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle,’ he wrote his father before leaving, ‘it should be difficult to get lost forever.’
Then he vanished . . .”
This would be the last communication from Roman Dial’s son.
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For the 20+ years that Joyce and I have been married, most years we awaken on Christmas morning and New Year’s Day in a campground. Occasionally we stay at home. This year was a stay at home for Christmas time.
We had planned on heading out to the Lake Mead area after Christmas but a mild case of the flu, which has been lingering for a couple weeks, made us decide to stay home to completely recuperate at. We’ll be heading out in the camper soon.
Joyce loves to decorate for the holidays. Given all her efforts, I decided to put together a collage of her work.
No, this isn’t about pictures or paintings related to backpacking or the outdoors, but aesthetic industrial design. Equipment or clothing that is functional and whose form is pleasing to look at. Its form follows its function. The technology may even elicit a pleasant emotional response.
Normally clothing might be considered fashion more than industrial design, but the clothes we wear in the wilderness in extreme conditions are really technology. So I’ll include clothing.
This post will consider these elements and design in backpacking gear and see if there are any outstanding examples of these principles.
It was time to update the copyright notice in the footer of the Website when I noticed that it has been a little over 10 years since PopUpBackpacker was created.
Over the past 10 years I have covered a lot of territory backpacking, hiking, camping and writing about the things that interest me. In this post I’ll cover some highlights, where I have been and what the future might hold for me and PopUpBackpacker.
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