Blog Status, Iii Feb 2013

Well, I ain't dead yet,   ;)   but 2012 was a tumultuous twelvemonth for me. I got allow instruct from a chore I had held for 21 years together with was left to flail close inwards the "new economy." I spent a full of vi months unemployed. My repeated searches for exercise together with getting my skills a flake to a greater extent than polished led me to all but abandon , much to my chagrin. I did exercise a flake of blogging on my personal hiking spider web log (Hikin' Jim's Blog), but I merely didn't bring the fourth dimension or disclose energy to exercise whatever organized stove testing or blogging.

Henry Coe State Park

I merely got dorsum from the annual GGG terminal calendar week at Henry Coe State Park (The GGG is a grouping backpacking effect organized through Backpacking Light), together with I got pretty fired upward (if you'll pardon the pun) close exploring the technology scientific discipline together with diversity of backpacking stoves ane time more.  My "jobs" these days are all contracts -- amongst destination dates, non traditional jobs, so I bring to "make hay piece the Sun shines" together with set inwards a lot of hours when the chance to run arises.  I never know how much fourth dimension I'll pass betwixt periods of employment.  Despite my really existent constraints, I promise to bring something to offering to the full general together with ultralight backpacking community inwards 2013. 

The Kovea Spider (KB-1109), the outstanding (in my opinion) remote canister stove of 2012

Stick around; I've got lots to a greater extent than to demo you,

HJ

Notes on Advertising on My Blog.
I exercise allow advertising on my blog.  My spider web log is mainly a hobby, but I exercise derive or together with then express fiscal remuneration from the blog, an average of $1.70 per solar daytime inwards 2012.  I visit the spider web log equally "self supporting" inwards that it pays for itself inwards price of fuel for my stoves together with maybe allowing me to occasionally buy a stove that I bring a item involvement in.  Basically, your presence hither helps to pay for the content that y'all visit (and helps me to maintain my hobby), together with then I give cheers y'all for joining me on my Adventures inwards Stoving.

Ancient limber pine, merely off the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)