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Posted in Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Jul 23rd, 2009
Out running errands yesterday I had a chance to dart into Whole Foods and see what was new on the shelves. One thing I hadn’t seen before was Porcini Mushroom Powder: Find it in the area where olives and bulk bars of chocolate, as well as bulk dried mushrooms are sold. This will be a [...]
Posted in Food Finds, Freezer Bag Cooking, Trail Cooking on Jul 21st, 2009
On yesterdays hike at Rainier, Ford and I stopped for a small lunch below Burroughs Mountain. I looked into my food bag and found a couple packages I hadn’t tried yet. Sampled were Packit Gourmet’s Refried Beans with Cheese and a packet of Japanese instant rice I had found awhile back at a large Asian [...]
Posted in Other, Trail Cooking on Jul 20th, 2009
Not 100% hiking related, but a great resource I recently came across. Valley Fresh, whose 7-ounce pouches of shelf stable chicken are so good, has a section devoted to gluten free recipes. With a little thinking out many could be changed to trail friendly cooking! ~Sarah
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Jul 20th, 2009
Ford and I got up early this morning to drive to Sunrise at Rainier (Tahoma). One to beat the heat, two to beat the crowds and three to beat the changing weather. Meadows full of Lupine with a view I always love: We headed to the Frozen Lake junction and I decided I wanted to [...]
Posted in photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports on Jul 19th, 2009
We were promised lower temperatures by the weather forecasters for yesterday, though that didn’t happen. Oh well, sunny and hot is still better than cold and rainy! Catzia ran our booth for TrailCooking.com once again, leaving me free to talk to attendees, etc. Lots of great people came by and if I didn’t get a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2009
My apologies for not many postings this week – the week before the annual WTA TrailsFest is always a busy one for us. I am often in hyper production on sewing FBC Cozies, packing gear and more importantly planning the meals I will talk about at our annual presentation! Speaking of that presentation, the theme [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Jul 14th, 2009
A few more photos borrowed from Steve and Jared. Teresa in front, me in back crossing a section that was barely there this year: This section is worse this year than it was last year. Last year there was at least a path to walk on, though it was still shifty. This year there is [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Jul 13th, 2009
Continuing on from Part 1. Waking up in Big Crow Basin is a treat. Wide and open the sun slips up early, warming one up. Well, it did a bit but then finally the promised bad weather did come. Never bad though – as we were packing up a quick storm blew across us for [...]
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