Simple truths: not everyone is a gourmet cook and not everyone has bundles of time to plan. For that one can use handy convenience products to make a simple and hearty dinner on the trail. Don’t feel guilty, feel full!
Check out the recipe/shopping list over on Trail Cooking for a quick go-to meal.
We used Suddenly [...]
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Posted in Trip Reports, photos on Feb 26th, 2010
Teresa “Dicentra” (One Pan Wonders) my long time friend and hiking partner was digging through stuff and came across a couple forgotten CD’s of photos from past trips we had done. A number of these photos I hadn’t seen before! From 2004 and 2005 mostly
A very young Ford on the way up Dog [...]
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Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear on Feb 24th, 2010
There was a point in my life when more than half my outdoor gear had LLBean splattered on it. It was well made gear, it lasted and worked well. Then they kind of took a turn where they were not producing much – to my sadness. Then I went UL and that cut out a [...]
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Posted in hiking on Jan 30th, 2010
~The meadow at Summerland~
Is it the economy? The hard winter for most of us? Who knows, but I can say I have seen a lot of chattering about hiking plans for this coming summer, more than usual, especially about the Wonderland Trail here in Washington – our gorgeous 93 miles loop around (well more like [...]
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Posted in Other, Trail Cooking on Jan 8th, 2010
I had been asked for more steamed muffin recipes so I have been working on new ones. First up is this very easy recipe for Pizza inspired muffins.
And before I forget, before everyone says “What are those muffin liners?” They are Wilton Silly- Feet Silicone Baking Cups , 4 Count. You can find them at [...]
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Posted in Trail Cooking, hiking on Jan 5th, 2010
We finally had a chance to finish moving over a long missing section from the old website to the current Trail Cooking site.
Check out Trail Cooking 101 which is in a “book format” for easy reading. It covers the basics on what Freezer Bag Cooking (FBC) is, to other methods like using an insulated mug, [...]
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It is time for another of Sarah’s Recipe Re-Do’s, where she takes a solid, good sounding recipe and makes it over – to be more trail friendly and most of all? Easier!
Today’s is a re-do of a recipe featured recently on another website – Pasta with Herbes de Provence. The issues in the original recipe [...]
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Posted in hiking on Oct 3rd, 2009
That is an impressive number of miles – nearly 17,000 miles to have walked in 17 years – Bart Smith completed all 11 of the National Scenic Trails in the US, ending at Ozette which sits on the Olympic National park coastline.
Check out Bart’s website and see the books he has on his travels as [...]
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