Summer is here, and a lot of us are heading into the backcountry. A common topic of conversation is food: specifically what to eat on long trips. I just listened to an informative, albeit, long, podcast from Backpacking Light. The hosts aren’t trying to sell you on a specific diet, or push an agenda, even …

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It’s been almost a month since I've returned from my three-week trip to Jordan and Israel, and even longer since my last post. I knew there was going to be a gap in entries due to the trip, but I didn’t expect it to take me so long to post something after I made it …

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