I love to camp, but there are some things I refuse to do without when I’m “roughing it” including a comfortable pillow and real coffee. After years of reliable service from my dad’s old aluminum percolator, I decided to downsize and lighten up a teenie bit for backpacking trips with the Snow Peak titanium French […]
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When I was a kid, my parents had a great big Coleman two-burner suitcase camping stove that was powered by white gas, and I just loved the little pump to pressurize the fuel tank. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. But as I’ve gotten older and wiser, my love affair with white gas […]
Read MoreDehydrated backpacking food has been a surprise and a revelation to me in recent years. It’s so easy and it tastes so good! Still, it does have a really high salt content and fresh veggies are so much a part of my daily diet at home that after a couple of days of “just add […]
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