SlowBro's Blog Posts

New Sleeping Pad – NEMO Tensor

Sleeping in a camping hammock provides an always level, no rock or root under you, soft supportive bed. If you sit in the middle with your legs over the side of the hammock, it’s a...

New Tent – Tarptent Dipole Li1

As I mentioned last time, one of the challenges of the OCT is finding a place to camp since large swaths of the path run through no-dispersed-camping zones. In addition some camping will be...

History and Challenges of the OCT

The north end of the Oregon Coast Trail (OCT) originates on the South Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River just behind the bathroom at the “C” parking lot. A somewhat inauspicious place...

A New Year and a New Trail

After injury and monotony ended my Appalachian Trail attempt last summer I spent some time recuperating from my knee and a lot of time thinking about how to proceed. I decided to change it...