Category: Gear

• Arizona Trail Retry

  Way back in 2020, I headed to Arizona with the goal of hiking the Arizona Trail, even though Covid-19 was busy shutting everything down. As you might guess, that plan didn’t exactly work out—when the Grand Canyon closed, so did my chances of completing the trail. Now it’s 2025, and I’ve decided it’s finally time […]

• New gear for Continental Divide Trail 2022

  For my CDT 2022 thruhike, I “needed” some new items, or at least that’s what I tell myself 🙂This is a quick overview of my new gear for Continental Divide Trail 2022 (CDT) My gear is pretty much dialed in at this point from previous hikes, so these items are really just minor changes, except […]

• My favourite hiking items

  “I am going to do a post about my favourite hiking items” I thought and started my process of thinking about what items to put on it. This turned out to be way harder than I thought! Every item in my backpack is carefully researched and chosen and a lot of the items I used […]

• Copper Spur Vs Duplex tent comparison

  Battle of the Big Agnes Copper Spur Vs Duplex from Zpacks. This is my attempt to explain why I don’t think one is better than the other - boring right? 🙂 Let’s start at the begnning. When I back in 2017 decided that I wanted to thru-hike The Pacific Crest Trail, I had never done…

• Huge decision on camera setup for my 2020 hikes

  Being a photographer and loving to thruhike is a pain in the butt! it’s a constant compromise to find a camera that will provide good enough quality but still not weigh too much as my base weight is an important factor (or at least I still try to convince myself that).Which let me to a […]

• The UGQ XL-Bandit Quilt

  Like I wrote in an earlier blog post I decided once again to upgrade my quilt to a warmer one, just to make sure that I wouldn’t get cold on my hike across Scotland (which I never actually did because of COVID-19). So I ordered The UGQ XL-Bandit Quilt. These are just my first impressions […]

• This is my hiking gear for 2020

  This year I will be hiking the Arizona Trail and doing The Great Outdoor Challenge (TGO Challenge).This is my hiking gear for 2020 New acquisitions Once again I got a little Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) and swapped out some og the items in my hiking setup. Vargo Titanium Flint Lighter Totally accidental I stumbled upon […]

• The gear I used on my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail

  The Pacific Crest Trail was my first long-distance hike, actually, it was my first real hike ever, so when I started planning, I had no gear what so ever, which meant I had to buy everything. I spent months researching and reading about gear 🙂 During my researching, I realized that most of the gear […]

• Thrupack Summit Bum Vs. Cotopaxi Bataan Fannypack

  As you might have noticed (if you didn’t I will be totally disappointed! what kind of hiker trash are you then?!) I am not going to use my Thrupack Summit Bum for the Kungsleden trail. In 2018 when I thru-hiked the PCT, I rocked the Thrupack Summit Bum all the way, and absolutely loved it!At […]

• A boy and his quilt

  When I started my thru-hike of the PCT back in 2018, I used a quilt for 11 days until I changed it back to a mummy bag. I simply could not stand the draft every fracking time I moved around during the night. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over […]

• Atom Packs “The Atom 40”

  After my thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018, I started to look at other backpacks to find something lighter than my Osprey Exos 55 – which I was very happy with on the trail! But trying to see if I can lower my base weight, I need to look at my tent, backpack […]

• Storage for videos and pictures

  Planning a long distance hike is in itself a large undertaking, but being a photographer and knowing that I will be taking a TON of pictures, and at the same time planing on Vlogging on a daily basis, presents some challenges, specifically how to handle Storage for videos and pictures. Choosing the right camera I an […]

• My setup for the PCT – almost

  Now I got my gear dialed down to what I will bring on the PCT. So this is my setup for the PCT – almost 🙂 I still need to buy water storage (I bought the Cnoc Vecto water bladder, but the first 2 I got leaked water) and water purifier – which will be […]

• Sony Nordic is sponsoring memory cards for the trip

  Sony Nordic are donating a stack of memory cards. Last post in Danish! Promise. Tuesday morning, 8:43, and I am on my way out the door to work when my phone rings. Unknown number. Great, the cold callers are on the hunt again. But curious as I am...

• The Perfect Travel Camera? Yeah, Right! 😆

  Picking a camera is tough enough under normal circumstances. Once you figure out what you need it for, you’ve got a world of options—just pick a price range you’re comfortable with, and from there, it’s all about personal preference. Most cameras in the same category perform pretty similarly anyway. But now, imagine you’re traveling. Suddenly, […]