Kevin Renfrow

With less than two days until I take off for Shasta, tonight is going to be busy with gathering items and packing them away properly in my backpacking pack.

Yesterday I was able to run to the store to grab odds and ends that I needed to replenish my camping supplies. I made an online checklist with the free Basecamp service. It’s been very helpful being able to quickly drag items to different lists, add new items, and of course mark them off as I pack them away.

After my initial gathering of supplies, I’m afraid I may be trying to bring down too many things. I’m definitely going to finish packing everything away tomorrow and go for a short hike with the pack on.

Since I’m going to be spending a lot of time with my pack on my back, it’s really important that I balance it correctly. My short dry-run tomorrow will help me calibrate this balance and help me determine if I need to remove any weight from the pack.

That’s it for tonight. I’ll make one more post tomorrow before I leave, but after that the blog will be barron from updates until I return on July 20. I’ll probably be pretty tired, but I’ll try to get some pictures from the trip up on the website as soon as possible. If everything works out as planned, I may even post a condensed journal of the daily adventures. Yeah, we’ll see.

A little about the author: Kevin is a student at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA. He loves the outdoors and enjoys backpacking, camping, hiking, biking, kayaking, and just about everything. When he's not in the great outdoors, he spends his free time working on web development projects and tinkering with computers. Kevin is currently serving as the Web Coordinator for the Western Region, Order of the Arrow, BSA.