The other day I wrote an article on cooking while backpacking. Right after writing it I was at the July 4th Fireman’s Breakfast in Middleton and saw Steve Weston who is a really good chef and ...

Backpacking stoves are one of my favorite things to write about because I covet them. I first started using an MSR Dragonfly when I was 15 years old. Around 17, wanting to get away from liquid gas, I ...

One of the big treats when camping is eating. You’ve been hiking hard, and as they say, food always tastes better in the great outdoors. We all know this is true, so why do we barely sustain on some ...

When I first started hiking and backpacking, I paid little regard to nutrition – just packed whatever was cheap, calorific, ...