Techniques
Tips and tricks for making your lightweight outdoors experience enjoyable and safe.
- Getting Ready for Winter Activity - A collection of posts to help you keep warm this winter.
- You Are my Pouffie and I Love You - My pouffies are key clothing pieces that keep me happy in the outdoors.
- Milestones - Our two significant milestones from this summer - longest multi-day and longest daily mileage to date.
- Ultralight Backpacking Bootcamp - Announcing a course for beginner or intermediate backpackers who want to learn lightweight/ultralight backpacking techniques.
- The One Thing Every Family Needs to be Successful in the Outdoors (Special Offer) - One of the biggest keys to a family's success in the outdoors is going light.
- One Trip a Month - Taking One Day a Week one step further.
- Looking Back on Speck Pond (with Video) - Summary of a fabulous fall feels-like-winter backpacking trip.
- Family Shelter Musings - Our quest for a light 5 person backcountry tent.
- Backpacking with a Reluctant Spouse - When your better half needs a bit of encouragement to embrace the outdoors.
- Toothpowder for Backpacking and Home Life - Switching to a tooth powder for oral hygiene on the trail and at home.
- The Fear of Wild Animals - What about dangerous wild animals?
- Getting Out the Door - Half the battle is just getting out the door.
- Underpants - Underwear that does double duty as base layer and swim wear.
- One day a Week, a Homemaker's Perspective - What I do to make one day a week happen in our life.
- Keeping Feet Warm in the Winter - Cold feet will thwart winter outdoor activity, we have a few ideas to help you keep your feet warm.
- Have tent will travel - Tenting can take more places than just a campground.
- An easy menu plan for a day of hiking - The food routine that we currently use for our hiking days.
- Setting the Pace - Keeping the whole gang motivated on the trail for longer hikes.
- Gentian Pond Backpacking - Successes and Failures - Gear and trip reflections from our first summer family backpacking trip.
- Eating a healthy hiking lunch: Split Pea Soup recipe
- Backcountry Poo-Poo Clinic - A Mike Clelland video about dealing with unmentionables in the woods.