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When did camping get so expensive?
If you’re at all serious about camping, you can spend a small fortune – or even a large one, for that matter – on camping gear. Every time you head for the hills, you evaluate […]
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You know someone’s tracking your GPS points
An e-mail came out recently saying cell phones are now being hacked by computer-savvy creeps. I don’t know how true it is, but the word is they can listen to your calls, or they can […]
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Some lessons you just have to learn the hard way
While thinking about some of the wisdom I’ve gained from experiences in the outdoors, I thought of the most obvious piece of wisdom first: Don’t eat yellow snow. But some of my wisdom has been […]
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I have my new camping gear picked out
My wife and I went on a hike to Bomber Mountain in the Bighorns over Labor Day weekend, and we wound up losing one pair of expensive sunglasses and breaking another one. But we also […]
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I need to do something about my heavy gear
I never used to be too concerned about the weight of my camping gear, but that’s because I’ve always had horses to get deep into the backcountry. I still have horses, but sometimes it’s good […]
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Wildflower Women help ladies get out in the wilds
My wife went on one of the Wyoming Wildflower Women excursions a couple weeks ago to South Pass City, where they camped in the ghost town, toured the gold mine, and did a bunch of […]
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When I rough it, I like to rough it
I’ve been getting advertisements from a bunch of glamping companies. I don’t have any idea how they got my name for their mailing lists. I am far from their target audience. For one thing, I […]
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It’s camping time!
Each year, when school got out for the summer, my dad would haul the dusty old backpacking tent in from the barn and toss it on the living-room carpet. He’d announce that we were going […]
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Just get lost — but in a good way
Most people try to avoid getting lost in the woods. I’ve long thought my dad’s goal was just the opposite. Every time we headed out into the wild, Dad would get us lost. Never horribly […]
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Horses are a lot of work, but they’re worth it
When hunting season rolls around, I’m very happy to be a horse owner. Most of the time, they make getting deep into the backcountry a breeze. And they can carry a much more comfortable camp […]