One “luxury” backpacking item which can be really worth its weight is a skillet or frying pan. Having one greatly increases the types of foods you can make on the trail. For example, you’ll be able to cook up pancakes, quesadillas, sausage, cinnamon rolls, eggs you got during refueling trips in town, and even pizzas.
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For years, I used a self-inflating sleeping pad or foam pad when backpacking. When I finally switched over to an inflatable pad, I was surprised at how annoying it was to blow up.
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You want to make sure your crawling baby spends as much time outdoors as possible. But you also don’t want to watch her EVERY SINGLE SECOND. A portable playpen makes this possible. Compared to the playpens of the past, there are now a lot of good ones which fold down quickly with one hand, don’t
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If you are going camping in winter or snowy conditions, you might need to rely on snow for your drinking water. Melting snow can be an arduous, annoying task though — especially if you bring the wrong pot or don’t know a few tricks to speed up the process. This guide will go over everything
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If you are going backcountry camping — especially in bear country — you will need to store your food properly. In many cases, this means hanging your food in a tree to keep it away from bears and other animals. There are several ways to hang food camping, some of which are much better than
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When Oukitel first asked me to review one of their smartphones, I was a bit confused. I write about camping and backpacking. What do phones have to do with that? Then I saw the Oukitel rugged phone selection and got excited. Yes, I wanted one of these. It didn’t hurt that my current phone was
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