About Dave
David Loome (Dave) is an accomplished 23 year old backpacker originally from Stillwater, Minnesota and currently living in beautiful Flagstaff, Arizona. He has over 11,000 miles of personal backpacking experience including multiple, multi-thousand miles hikes such as the Pacific Crest and Appalachian Trails, and many more long distance hikes to his credit including the Colorado Trail, Sierra High Route, Maah Daah Hey Trail, Long Trail, John Muir Trail, Superior Hiking Trail, Border Route Trail, as well as many long distance hikes of his own design.
Dave has settled on lightweight backpacking as the best and most meaningful way by which he may explore, experience, learn from, and absorb the nature of our remaining wild places. His experiences in our backcountry areas have come to instill in him a deep and abiding respect for our land, our environment, our fellow creatures, and has often made him painfully aware of human being’s often incredibly negative and terribly destructive influence in the world.
He believes that this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of, and disconnection from, our natural surroundings, and that this disconnection is an overwhelmingly negative influence in our lives. He strongly feels we can be woken up from the dull, artificial and increasingly synthetic experience of our modern technological culture and by doing so, may regain a connection and sense of unity with our natural origins, our natural world, and our sense of place in it.
Dave is working to share his experiences and enable others to experience these things for themselves through written works, photography, and tutorials on lightweight backpacking and living a lifestyle that is lightweight on our planet.
Despite being a grumpy old man at heart, Dave also enjoys writing about himself in the third person, reading, traveling, cycling, fixing things, sewing, impressions, people-watching, thrift stores, long winded tirades, trees, hats, popsicles, unusual cheeses, Thai food, Tetris, and will smell and eat questionable left-overs. Dave doesn't own a television, an iPod, or a microwave, yet is somehow an unusually happy guy.
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