Good Morning
Tuesday morning 10/7/25 7:30 40F (4.4C) Clear blue sky. The sun is just kissing the tree tops up on the canyon rim. There is no wind here. I can hear the logging show about a mile away. They started moving equipment about an hour...
Good Morning
10/6/25 Good Monday morning to you. 7:30 38F (3.3C) but it feels colder. Heating water for tea while my brother and Robert sleep. ...
Good Morning
10/5/25 Good morning. 6:00 and cold enough to see my breath but comfortable by the fire. I am not sure if I hear Walter or Jason, but someone is snoring in the tipi, loud enough to scare the bears. Sipping my tea and listening to the brook babble stories to me,...
Good Evening
10/3/25 8:30 Clear sky cool, temperate weather, The moon waxing gibbous and approaching full. Just got home from the deep, dark forest. Mike and I drove north, looking for someplace we hadn't camped before. ...
Outhouse Camp August 2025
My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...
Good Morning
3/8/26 8:00 50F (10C) Coudy and dry, with a light wind. The lodge pole ribbons are fluttering and the willows sway in the breeze. It seems like the crocus and the daffodils have all bloomed overnight. This morning is frantic with birds, all chirping,...
Good Morning
3/7/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Overcast and dry. It is a gray, windless morning. Walter is barking at an early dog walker. There is a squirrel chattering full scold in the oaks. Robins and jay's flit about. A flock of small birds is eating the blossoms off the...
Good Morning
3/6/26 6:30 43F (6C) Cloudy with patches of blue. No wind, no rain. The sun tops Snakehead ridge, flaring golden-yellow through a crack in the clouds. I hear turkeys calling from the tall trees up the canyon. Birds are singing, the rooster is...
Good Morning
3/5/26 5:45 44F (6.66C) Breezy, mostly cloudy, beginning to rain. Trees sway in the wind. The moon, waning gibbous behind the clouds, is setting. Birds are singing it to sleep in the dim grey blue of a morning not quite realized. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
3/4/26 6:00 45F (7.2C) No wind. Gray and wet. It is raining here. Apparently it is snowing on the mountain with the freezing level just over 5,000'. That is good. Whether it is good enough we will discover come fire season. I expect a long summer...
Chicken & Dumplings
Chicken & Dumplings Chicken and dumplings may be the ultimate comfort food. We had this for Sunday dinner on our Halloween camping trip. To ease the work at camp, I did some prep at home, mixing the dry ingredients for the dumplings in a zip lock bag, and cooking...
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...
