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I'm not clear on the terminology. The usual inexpensive electric grinder has food processor style blades. That's not what you mean by conical, is it? That kind can produce inconsistent results and heat. Most electric burr grinders are relatively large and expensive. The manual ones that...

I found Cabin Lake on the Mussio maps. It's in the uplands between Bostom Bar on the Fraser and Meritt. I assume you get there via the Petit Creek FSR out of Merrit? I've spent a night at private campground on the Fraser near Boston Bar, and also at a FS rec site off of 97C near Merrit - that...

For gear heads, here's an even better coffee maker: http://www.chow.com/stories/10853 the $11,000 Clover http://cloverequipment.com/whyclover/why_clover.aspx

I've gotten into the habit of drinking one cup a day Vietnamese style - using their inexpensive stainless steel filter, and sweetened condensed milk. A coarse grind of mixed Arabiac and Robusta from Vietnam works well in that style. It has enough of a bitter edge to stand up to the sweet milk...

I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'light forest road', but I think a 97 RAV4 should be able to handle anything that has seen a grader within the last 3 years. The only time I've gotten stuck was when I tried to cross a late season snow drift in the California mountains north of I80. In...

Have you tried roasting you own while in camp? grinding your own?

How are you joining the plywood?

Backcountry Equipment/ Moontrail in Texas has a quite informative online catalog http://www.moontrail.com/home.php?cat=288 They distinguish among 3 season, 4 season, and mountaineering. They used to have a separate family camping selection. Among backpacking tents, 3 season ones are optimized...

I think the hanging Coleman that I mentioned earlier would be great for stirring up the air in a RTT.

When camping in Idaho in June I saw a camping trailer that looked,from the outside, like a horse trailer. The couple had several dogs, but no horses in sight. I didn't approach the camp site, so can't say whether the whole thing was living quarters, or just the front part. Also I have no idea...

Good thing is wasn't the Queen of the North when she went down a couple of years ago! We took the Queen north from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert, and then out to the Charlottes in 2003. For the two night legs we had a small stateroom (2 bunks and bath), while the dog had to stay on in the car...

Was that in the High Bar, Big Bar and Gang Ranch area?

'Alemania' is just the Spanish name for Germany. May be they have, or will be, traveled south of the USA. Did you get to those glaciers and mine north of Stewart via Hyder?

Apparently they have now been restored. http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46549

Did you take the backroad from Nisga to 37? Several years ago when in Terrace I was warned that it was in poor shape. However I also read that when slides or flooding blocked the Yellowhead east of Terrace (June 2 years ago?), traffic had to take this backway to get Terrace and PR.

Forestry Trunk (940) south of Highwood Junction is decent gravel, but not near as scenic as the part north of there. I did that several years ago in the fall. Near Coleman on Hwy 3 I was surprised to see a lot of downed aspens and cottonwoods. Apparently an early web snow storm a few weeks...

I realized after the west coast trip that I needed heavier duty tires. I upped the plys and diameter shortly before selling. Besides the 2000+ miles each way, that trip included a good stretch of gravel, crossing Vancouver Island to Fair Harbor on Kyokut Inlet. It was on the return of that...

I had a Sea Pearl 21 when I lived in Chicago 20 years ago. It had tanbark colored lug sails. I towed it with a 4 cyl Trooper II, and sailed locally, a bit in Ontario (Tamagami), and once towed it out to British Columbia. On the return leg of that trip, we motored on Yellowstone Lake. It was...

Curiously I drove Durango to Buena Vista some 20 years ago using only a AAA state map, plus some local info I picked up in Silverton. I took the main road to Silverton, after deciding that the famous train did not fit our plans. Based on local trail guides I headed up to Animas Forks intending...

If you have a chance to return to that area (the NE corner of Rainier), consider camping at Corral Pass. This is a more rustic forest service campground that you get to by turning off 410 a little before the park entrance (before Crystal Mtn). It's described as rough road though I had no...