Uploaded September 2013 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Spent a hammock overnight lakeside at Mirror Lake, in Section I along the Pacific Crest Trail, with 20 pounds of backpacking gear, carried-in to test a fully loaded Zpacks Blast Slim Cuben Hybrid Backpack. More Zpacks gear will be tested during our next backpacking overnight so stayed tuned. Other gear used for this backpacking overnight - Therm-a-Rest Alpine Blanket, Four Dog Stove Titanium Windscreen and Four Dog Stove Titanium Lid for the Snow Peak Trek 700 cook pot. The I Am Cat alcohol cat food can cook stove compliments of Grubkat - YouTube channel friend - watch Grubkat's channel and the I AM Cat stove at...
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Spent a hammock overnight lakeside at Mirror Lake, in Section I along the Pacific Crest Trail, with 20 pounds of backpacking gear, carried-in to test a fully loaded Zpacks Blast Slim Cuben Hybrid Backpack. More Zpacks gear will be tested during our next backpacking overnight so stayed tuned. Other gear used for this backpacking overnight - Therm-a-Rest Alpine Blanket, Four Dog Stove Titanium Windscreen and Four Dog Stove Titanium Lid for the Snow Peak Trek 700 cook pot. The I Am Cat alcohol cat food can cook stove compliments of Grubkat - YouTube channel friend - watch Grubkat's channel and the I AM Cat stove at...
youtube.com/watch?v=cKsOMi6xm3c&feature=share&list=UU5xGrCt-qMGdvm5oHPh8New
More details for this Wawhiker video are available at Wawhiker.blogspot.com






![Backpacking Bokeh and Trail Switchbacks
Matched the Sony NEX 5T camera (great for backpacking BTW) with a Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS lens, and did more testing with the Sony Action Cam. Again, both cameras are a complimentary new addition to my existing Sony HandiCam - all make for a nice combination to share our backpacking adventures with you. The 53 switchbacks on the Mt. Dickerman trail is a conditioner Cooper and I will do many more times before the Big One in August - more details to come...
In photography, Bokeh (Originally BOH-kay — also sometimes pronounced as Japanese: [boke]) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh Backpacking Bokeh and Trail Switchbacks](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zEPUYS4Oyvo/mqdefault.jpg)



