Trail Cooking & The Outdoors

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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My friend HikerMama had emailed me last night wondering if I was free today. The good weather was on the wane but the first half of the day looked to be decent enough. Three hikes in three days? Oh sure, it had been way too long since I got to pull that off (2009? Before [...]

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Kirk and I were hoping to get out today with the family so we chose a section of the Iron Horse Trail. After the last two weeks of dumpy, blah rain filled days this morning was blinding blue skies and balmy temps. No way were we staying home! We drove up I-90 to Exit #38 [...]

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Food can make or break a trip when you have kids along – especially in the 3+  years and up range. Especially if you have them hiking hard miles – they need food that fuels them but also that interests them more so. When Ford was younger (he is 12 now) I did a combination [...]

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Yesterday we stopped into a local Costco and came across a pallet of Chariot Cheetah 1′s that came packaged with the jogger wheel conversion kit. The Chariot chassis retails for $400, the wheel kit for $90. The deal at Costco is $349.99, a $140 savings! Yes, the Chariot is a pricey setup – it is [...]

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Ford and I met up with Dicentra and her daughter for a laid back dayhike. Maddy had recently turned 3 so she is starting to finally get her trail legs. Give her another year and she will be doing great. I picked Twin Falls Trail, up on I-90. It is a good kid hike – [...]

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