A Holiday Special: A Dirtbagger's Guide to Gliking

Do you like hiking and happen to be a glamorous person or maybe you know someone who is? This holiday season don’t spend millions of dollars on gifts. Keep those funds in an offshore bank account where they belong. No no you want to show your loved ones you are smart because you are a glamorous hiker aka gliker.

Oh La La Lights

Expensive purchase: A $200 generator with a chandelier made for the backcountry

Gliker’s purchase: Take your headlamp and bottle and stack them to set the mood. As bonus you can use the bottle for transporting drinking water too.

Supreme Drinks

Expensive purchase: Vintage wine paired with only the lightest steel wine glass stored in a $200+  titanium bottle.

Gliker’s purchase: Nothing. Take your old drinking pouch and fill it with wine. It’s smarter to keep on the move while drinking.

Fancy Dinnah

Expensive Purchase: How'd you like to make a pizza pie in your fancy back country pizza oven?

Gliker's Purchase: Bread, pepperoni and some yellow cheese always hits the spot. That's not all. No no. Cook some ramen flavored ramen with your beer can stove and you will be fuller than a man eating horse.

Space Age Utensils

Expensive purchase: NASA designed titanium spoons, knives and forks.

Gliker’s purchase: Plastic utensils taken from the cafeteria or the local grocery store.

Final Thoughts

That’s right, you might not need all that fancy gear for the out of doors. While good boots and proper clothing are essential, many bourgeois items have popped up in gear stores that you can pass on. Get your dirt bag some basic wool or goretex gear. Even better, go on adventure dirt bag style and figure it out as you go.

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