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Posted in Freezer Bag Cooking, Insulated mug method, No Cook Recipes, One Pot Meals, Other, Trail Cooking, Vegan, Vegetarian on Oct 26th, 2011
Hiking and it is cold (or at least heading that way)? Out here in the PNW we are already waking up to mid 30′s for temps and in the mountains it is colder we have had snow a number of days already. Just the way fall should be So here are a smattering of recipes [...]
Posted in Gear, Hiking Gear, Outdoor Cooking Gear, Trail Cooking on Jun 27th, 2011
This past weekend I came across a line of reusable fabric bags sewn here in Washington State. They come in two sizes, snack bag and sandwich bag size. The bags are made by Mama Luvs. They have two options, Velcro closure and drawstring. Both work great but I found that the Velcro one would be [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on May 24th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on May 14th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 6th, 2011
A recent pick I found at our local Costco is a great guidebook for hikers in Washington State. The Creaky Knees Guide Washington: The 100 Best Easy Hikes in the State came out in 2009. The author, Seabury Blair, Jr is well known for his local dayhiking books and the Creaky Knees is just as [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on May 2nd, 2011
Huh….so the news is in: We set a record for an uber crappy April this year here in the greater Seattle area. Can we get a big woo-hoo? Cause these nasty springs make people move to Tucson I quote “And, of course, sunshine was in short supply. While we broke a streak of 56 straight [...]
Posted in hiking, One Pot Meals, photos, Trail Cooking, Trip Reports on Apr 22nd, 2011
I love going through old hiking photos – especially the ones from before the concept of blogging was there. Back a long time ago I had a small website (or was it really a web page?) where I kept tiny photos and thin logs of trips that we took. That site is long gone now [...]
Posted in hiking, photos, Trip Reports on Apr 9th, 2011
Teresa and her daughter had come down South today and we got out for a couple hikes nearby – as she had never been to the sister state parks down the road from my house – and both are very kid friendly. That and at the end of a week long sinus infection I wasn’t [...]
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