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Sleeping In A Hammock: Your Complete Guide to Going From Hammock Fear to Hammock Love

March 8, 2010

People ask me on an almost daily basis whether it’s comfortable to sleep in a hammock.  Some are asking about using a hammock every night on a long term backpacking trip while other people simply want to know whether you’ll wake up with neck and back pain if you spend too long in one or [...]

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Sleeping In A Hammock Is Good For You

March 3, 2010

A few weeks back Janet Kinosian wrote an interesting article for the Huffington Post titled “What Your Sleep Position Says About You”.  Much of the article focused on exactly that, examining the link between personality traits and various sleep positions. For example, workaholic businessmen and entrepreneurs are apparently more likely to sleep on their backs [...]

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Designing For Adventure: The Kodak PlaySport HD

January 18, 2010

If you like taking videos and spend more time capturing your latest outdoor adventures than your nephew’s birthday party, there’s a new video camera coming out in April and you just may want to pre-order it now so you’ll get to take it out as soon as it’s available.  Courtesy of Kodak, the PlaySport HD [...]

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Trek Light Adventures: Floating above the Mopan River in Belize

January 6, 2010

Trek Light, We acquired an inflatable kayak from friends and decided to take a self guided tour down the Mopan River in Belize. So we figured we would be on the water all day but something told us we needed to bring our hammocks none the less. When we saw this tree poking up out [...]

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A Video Introduction from Joe and Andy

January 4, 2010

The traveling duo of Joe and Andy also go by the name of “Team Free Base” in honor of their quest to always have a free base to explore from while staying mobile and traveling light.  If you haven’t been following their blog series, it all started with an email they sent in letting us [...]

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Trek Light Gear’s Favorite Albums of 2009

December 15, 2009

Music plays a large role in the Trek Light lifestyle.   Since we live in the age of the iPod, your music has become as portable as our hammocks and any good road trip or journey abroad isn’t complete without the right soundtrack. There’s really nothing quite like relaxing in a hammock and listening to good [...]

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Trek Light Adventures: More From Guatemala and Belize

December 15, 2009

Free Base checking in… Picture 1 and 7 come from Lake Itza in San Jose, Peten Guatemala. Both are over exposed as the extra light allowed into the lens brightens up this night scene and blurs the swinging hammocks. Chillin’ 10 to 15 feet above the the ground on an elevated platform Andy and Denny, [...]

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Trek Light Adventures: Joe and Andy (Pt. 2)

November 23, 2009

(Another great email from Joe and Andy, this time from Belize. Enjoy…) I believe in Belize, Because I believe, I can find some trees, That my hammock, Will fit in between. The first pic gets a little artsy as we are always trying to push the boundaries of how our pictures turn out. Under the [...]

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Hack Your Pack: The 8 Things You Need On Every Backpacking Trip

November 19, 2009

I’m thrilled to introduce another great post by a guest blogger here on Trek Life.  Some know Tara Anderson as the Marketing Manager for Lijit (an awesome Boulder start-up and the brains behind the handy search wijit to the right of this post). Others know her as a practiced masseuse, a hilarious speaker and stand-up [...]

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Trek Light Adventures: Joe and Andy (Pt. 1)

November 11, 2009

One of the biggest joys of running a business like Trek Light Gear is hearing about our products traveling around the world. As it is with a lot of entrepreneurs, most of the long-distance traveling I’ve been lucky to do in my life came before I started the business.  I know that those days will [...]

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