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Cranberries and Chanterelles
Cranberries and Chanterelles Cranberries ripen at the height of chanterelle season. It was inevitable eventually I would try cooking them up together. I'm only surprised it took me so long to get around to it. Ingredients chanterelles wild cranberries...
Dutch Oven Cornbread
This is a variation of the cornstick recipe I posted earlier. Cornbread recipes are pretty flexible. You can start with equal parts cornmeal, flour, and sugar Use more cornmeal and less flour for more texture; proportionally more flour than meal yields...
Campfire Chili Dinner
Until recently, I seldom used a tripod for anything more than boiling water. Why go to the effort to make a tripod when you can cook directly over the coals? But I have come to appreciate the heat control a tripod affords. You can hang your pot high over a flaming...
Beer Bandoleer
Carhartt 276100 - 6 Pack Beverage Sling - essential summer equipment. Brown polyester exterior, with an adjustable web carry strap and silver insulated inside, the bandoleer fits six cans of beer. We were out for 4 hours in 95 degree(35c) heat. The beer was cool, but...
Cornbread and Blackberries
I enjoyed a relaxing morning, another day off, due to The Contagion, with Dutch oven cornbread and fresh blackberries for breakfast. The cornbread was left over from a recent camping trip; the blackberries were picked this morning. I tarted it up with butter,...
Good Afternoon
11/9/25 Clear, sunny, and warm. We decided to forage for cranberries and mushrooms instead of doing yard work, so Amy, Walter, and I piled into the car and headed north. We picked up Mike on the way and by noon, we were on the road to Trout Lake....
Halloween on the Big Lava Bed
It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day when Kent and I drove north into the Big Lava Bed. The road was rugged, just ruts worn into jagged rock, winding between collapsed lava tubes and stunted trees finally arriving at a flat...
Good Morning
11/2/25 6:00 40f Overcast and calm out on the lava bed. The weather has moderated. It was still dark when I made the treacherous trek to the latrine. I was relieved when it hove into view. Andy and Kent put some much appreciated effort into its...
Good Morning
11/1/25 8:00 Temperate but raining hard. We had a puddle form by the door last night. It has grown to a lake with a river running into it. Constant rain all night with no hope for it letting up today. The tipi won't draft and is filled with smoke. We had...
Good Morning
10/31/25 8:00 cool calm and beautiful . A lovely sunrise Halloween morning out on The Big Lava Bed after a beautiful moonlit night. Got a slow start this morning and had breakfast for lunch. ...
Good Morning
9/25/26 5:30 54F (12.2C) AQI 25 Cloudy, dark, wet. There is a light breeze, cool but not uncomfortable. The predicted rains were slow coming. It was sprinkling when I came out, progressing to light rain, then becoming a steady downpour. Then it stopped, like...
Good Morning
9/24/26 6:30 Partly cloudy, no wind. It feels cold this morning, colder than yesterday. Daylight is just beginning to seep into the forest. It was completely dark when I walked down the fire tack trail an hour ago I am back in my bunk now, listening to ravens...
Good Morning
9/23/26 8:00 Approximately 2,000' elevation. Cool but not cold, probably about the mid-forties (7.5C) Light overcast with no breeze. It's the first day of fall. Biscuits and chanterelle gravy with eggs on top for breakfast. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
9/22/26 7:00 54F (12.2C) AQI 15 Partially cloudy but no wind. Swallows dance with my floaters, black specks against the sky. They soar and flutter, then vanish as suddenly as they appeared. Today is the last day of summer. It is also Mom's birthday. Aluminum...
Good Morning
9/21/26 7:00 50F (10C) AQI 28 No wind. Bright, blue sky waiting on the sun. The day before the Autumnal Equinox. A crow complains somewhere behind the nieghbor's barn. Walter has taken post on the deck, keeping vigilant watch for intruders. There are none....
