Tag: car camping
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UPWC: Easy Pass to Colonial Creek
UltraPedestrian Wilderness Challenge (UWPC) Presenting a guest post on trail running by K, of General Tso’s Chicken blog fame. Stats 5:47:00 Elapsed Time 2 Strava segments (GPS watch was a shame first 20 miles, Switched to iPhone Strava track when watch froze) 1 GPS watch that lost signal about 20 miles in 1 Finish photo 2…
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3 Pro-tips for Your Road Trip
– Things We’ve Forgotten, NPS EditionAs folks get rolling out to the U.S. National Parks and the rest of the great outdoors for Summer, here are three things to know plus one bonus idea. 1. Watch for the AM radio sign for the latest updates and tune in! This is usually posted as a road sign as you’re driving in…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 2Here’s one from my significant other’s mountaineering class. I froze my ass off camping in in Bryce Canyon so you don’t have to. While camping, you can fill a large nalgene (or other water) bottle with hot water before bed, and put it in your sleeping bag for extra warmth all night! If you find the…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 1Discovery in the desert, Moab, Utah near Arches National Park: While on the road, you can use a large Nalgene bottle (or other water bottle) as a stand-in for a foam roller to roll out your thighs and other muscles, a great plus if you, say, went for a hike while car camping and have sore muscles! For…
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Southwest Road Trip Correspondence
Me (via email): We appear to have entered some anomaly in the space time continuum. Kris’ watch says 10pm, mine says 8, and the car says 9. Who knows what time or what age we will return to after our road trip… My brother: Woah.
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Moab Vignette
Bonus post for you subscribers! When I close my eyes, I can still see the desert. I look down and toe the red-brown dirt at my feet. I look up, and a vast horizon unfolds before me, the carpet of dirt for miles, dotted with the occasional tenacious yellow-green scrub bush. Far beyond, a ribbon…
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Run Away and Nurse Your Broken Heart in the Woods with a Hot Toddy
Sometimes, don’t you just want to set the world on fire? No? Well, maybe at least shake it around a little to tell it to behave itself better? Doesn’t the state of it just break your heart some days? Let’s go back to setting things on fire. I extra-think plenty on the things that are hugely…
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Raspberry Chocolate Camp Cake
in a Dutch Oven, by Fire!I found this gluten-free chocolate cherry cake recipe and used it to make a raspberry chocolate cake in a dutch oven by campfire. Below are the basic steps re-written the way I did them. This was a good one to prep and fire up before dinner, and let sit and finish cooking while you eat…