PEAK® Portable Power System 450 Plus - Gear Review

Have you ever come off the trail after a long day hike or even a few days in the woods, only to find the battery in your car is dead, or worse one of your tires have gone flat? How about camping at a site that has no hookups and you don't have an extension cord or a power inverter in the car to power that air pump for the air mattress? While these haven't necessarily happened to us, but so long as we keep the PEAK® Portable Power System 450 Plus in the vehicle, we shouldn't ever have to worry about any of these problems except maybe the flat tire issue but only if the tire has been puncture in some fashion and you don't have a plug kit.

Not long ago, we were contacted by PEAK® Performance, the people who make and sell antifreeze. They wanted to know if we would like to have one of these power systems for review. Of course seeing what it was, we jumped on the opportunity. This thing is a beast, and I love using it so far. Of course, for some of it's uses I'd rather not have to use it because that means I have a flat tire and/or possibly a dead battery.

Power Outage: Supper Emergency!

Last night, we had some terrible storms roll through our area. Around 7:00, I decided it was time to cook supper. I wanted something easy to cook, but that was too much to ask for. 

Ashby cursed me by saying the second I started supper the power would go out. And she was right! At the exact moment I got to the most critical part of Kraft's new Homestyle Mac & Cheese - which by the way is just a fancy, overpriced way of making boxed Mac & Cheese (thank goodness I didn't pay full price for it!) - the power went out. 

Enter stage left:
Our trusty Coleman propane stove. 

Tim hurried and set it up out the back door for me, and I hurried and finished the fancy, gourmet, tasted-like-regular Mac & Cheese. Then I put the julienne-sliced Spam *haha* on the burner to finish frying it. 

Since it was so dark, we didn't get many photos. And Tim got in trouble anyway for being too busy with the camera and burning the Spam while I was saving my Photoshop work and shutting down my computer before my UPS crapped out on me. But the great thing: we got to eat our "gourmet-style" Mac & Cheese by candlelight.