Trail Cooking & The Outdoors

Two years has slowly went by. It felt odd this morning realizing that so much time had gone since we lost our friend and hiking partner Jeremy. You are missed, Jer. ~Sarah

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2011 goes down into history in a matter of days and if anything it was the slowest year of hiking for me in well over a decade. But I was OK with that. I had my reasons and what I did get in made up for what I didn’t. But I made a lot of [...]

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A great way to find hiking books (and many other books!) on the cheap is to find out if your local library has book sales. Many libraries have a “Friends of the Library” program that goes to pay for special activities/programs. Where we live our library is in the massive King County Library System (busiest [...]

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A few weeks ago I had the chance to finally meet author Craig Romano in person – I was lucky enough to attend one of his presentations and as it turned out it was his first one for his latest book: Backpacking Washington: Overnight and Multi-Day Routes To put it lightly it has been far [...]

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Need some inspiration for meals? All FBC friendly for easy prep on the trail (FBC=Freezer Bag Cooking) Quick Breakfast? Try our customizable instant oatmeal packets – no reason to buy those already stale ones at the store! Instant Oatmeal Packets A trail snack to keep you powered up passes? Peanut Butter Granola Cups Need a [...]

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A combination of a Meet-Up group for moms, friends of friends and a few more ended up with 8 moms and 8 babies (good thing we were not on a wilderness trail!) meeting up this morning for a hike. Considering it was decently nice (and by that I mean no rain) and my other option [...]

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Do you have a hike that says “Spring” to you? In the past couple years it has become the Carbon River on the far side of Mount Rainier National Park. Or should I say now that past 5 years? It has been that long I realized today as we were hiking, since the destruction from [...]

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In recent months I have had a few unhappy readers vocalize their being upset with how my blog has changed in the past 1 and half years. What they don’t like is when I talk about my children. The plain and simple truth is guys (and by guys, I mean men – it has only [...]

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