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Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports, Videos on Nov 30th, 2008
If I hadn’t known otherwise I would have wondered if it was September 30th today, not November 30th. As we drove from near sea level to the meadows of Paradise at Mt. Rainier my eyes searched for snow. And little snow was there to be had, even at the end of the road. Just patches [...]
Posted in Gear, hiking, One Pot Meals, Outdoor Cooking Gear, photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports, Videos on Nov 29th, 2008
Kirk and I shot this video in late summer up at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. If you haven’t been to Olympic National Park it is definitely a ‘life list’ park to see – you can go from the Pacific Ocean to deep rain forest to sub alpine to alpine tundra in one day [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Nov 29th, 2008
This looks like it could be a really cool and helpful product: The GatrGard, designed to replace those stupid and inneficient shoelaces used on most low cut gaiters. I rarely use low gaiters simply due to hating the manufacturers instep strap – this could change my opinion of using low gaiters with my trail runners. [...]
Posted in Food Finds, hiking, Trail Cooking on Nov 29th, 2008
I really like Organic Valley’s milk when I am using dairy milk at home (say in my morning lattes). It has a good clean taste, which I appreciate. So coming across dry milk by them was a bonus. It comes in bags that are 12 ounces, with a zip top for keeping fresh. The company [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, hiking, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Videos on Nov 28th, 2008
How can one pass up the chance to make the trashiest of all trail meals? Well I know I can’t pass up those chances…… Ford and I went hiking with Trailhead and TwoFourtyJeff today up in the Issaquah Alps, on Cougar Mountain, here in Washington State. It was a wet day – rain spitting every [...]
Posted in hiking, Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2008
Question wise in emails to us, the two subjects that come up most often for health are Diabetes and following a low sodium diet. I have plenty of experience in the low sodium area and cover that on our website but for Diabetes that is a ball game I hope I don’t ever play in. [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, hiking, One Pot Meals, Trail Cooking, Videos on Nov 24th, 2008
On a trip to the Olympic Mountains in November 2004 I sat alongside a raging river – on a very cold afternoon to have lunch. I had dreamed up the idea and made this recipe for the first time: Cranberry Chicken Rice In a quart freezer bag: 1 cup instant rice 2 Tbsp dried veggie [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, hiking, Hiking Gear on Nov 23rd, 2008
I am a huge fan of Waterford Press and their fold out laminated guides, the Pocket Naturalist™ series. You often see the guides being sold in national park visitor centers, outdoors shops and in book stores. They have a wide range of titles, from geological areas such as parks, to the night sky, how to [...]
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