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Water filters hung on a tree branch look easy: gravity does the job; time to go make some fire/cook up grub. With no pump, it … Read more

You have three pounds of trimmed beef round and a bag of soy sauce that has been in your pantry since last winter. Jerky sounds … Read more

Heat causes most campfire cooking disasters, so it’s important to know what kind of heat you’re working with. The flame may seem promising, so you … Read more

Brining meat while camping is a challenge because you have to combine taste and food safety. On one hand, who doesn’t love some seasoning on … Read more

If you’re a smoker, you know that an excess of thick white smoke will ruin your meat, as it’s acrid and bitter. What you seek … Read more

Cold is counter-intuitive. Intuitively you’d think salt would just make things wetter, but nope. In terms of heat and energy, salt throw off the balance … Read more

You’ve got it now: you’re hot with a Tinder Cube, you’ve transferred that warmth to some other fuel; now you want to apply it to … Read more

Pack your cooler tight; but not stuffed The majority of camp wisdom assume that all ice chests are unbreakable cold-weather fortresses. They’re not. This is … Read more

Expect to produce more trash when you’re out there together. Most people don’t realize this, but it’s usualy not the bugs, or the weather, it’s … Read more

When you turn on the valve of your RV’s cylinder containing propane, all that propane will be sitting there as a liquid. It has to … Read more

After three trouble free years of camping you finally leave a campsite, and when you pull off, you have an inverter trip on a light … Read more