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How To: Quick, Easy Car and Tent Camping With the Toyota Prius Prime

In this article I will show you how to camp with your Toyota Prius Prime and a tent, doing so in a quick and easy manner. This method will actually work with any small car. But the point is that you’ll be able to load and unload your car in a quick fashion, with minimal, lightweight gear, circumventing the burden …

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What’s Up With the Featherstone Peridot 2 Person Backpacking Tent – Review

This review of the Featherstone Peridot 2 Person Backpacking Tent is based on my use of this tent at Dogwood Campground in Lake Arrowhead, CA and Paradise Campground in Los Padres Forest, CA, as a solo camper, in the summer of 2022. The manufacture’s website can be found at FeatherstoneOutdoor.com Affiliate Link: Check the current price of the Featherstone Peridot …

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Thru-Hiking Total Daily Calories Calculator Based on Trail Conditions

This backpacking calculator will provide the total number of daily calories you burn for a given number of minutes spent on a variety of trail conditions, your pack weight, as well as number of hours spent sleeping. It also factors in your non-sleeping, non-trail hiking minutes spent, based on your inputted minutes, and calculates calories burned doing normal camp related …

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Trail Conditions Specific Thru-Hiking Calories Burned on the Trail Calculator

This backpacking calculator is a more comprehensive version of the Simple Thru-Hiking Calories Burned Calculator I built for my hiking nutrition and calorie calculator series. How Does This Backpacking Calculator Work? Calculating Basal Energy Expenditure Like my other calculators, it’s based on the basic basal energy equations for men and women found in the nutrition science and medical literature. I …

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Everything You Need To Know About The Jetboil MiniMo – Accessories

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, Basic Operations, and Field Operation, I covered multiple inquiries from how to use the Jetboil MiniMo, to wind related issues in its use. In this third article on the cook system, I’ll be covering accessories and igniter issues for this unit. What Accessories Can You Get for the Jetboil MiniMo? Cozy …

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Everything You Need To Know About The Jetboil MiniMo – Field Operation

In part 1 of this series – Basic Operations – I went over how to unpack, set up, use, disassemble and repack the Jetboil MiniMo. But that’s not all the questions folks have about this cook system. So in this series I’ll go over lighting the MiniMo, using it in the wind, gas canister questions, and cleaning the system while …

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Best Creatine Supplements For Hiking (Day Hiking and Thru-Hiking)

Here are the best creatine supplements for hiking, that I could find on Amazon. I recently wrote an article on creatine’s roll in hiking, using the International Society of Sports Nutrition’s position stand on the subject as my guide. And of course, every time I write a new hiking nutrition article about supplementation, everyone wonders which products might be suitable …

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Everything You Need To Know About The Jetboil MiniMo – Basic Operations

The Jetboil MiniMo debuted on the market in 2014, and is still a popular backpacking, hiking, and camping cooking system to this day. And like all well received, outdoor gear, the internet has a ton of questions about this lightweight stove. I’ll step in and answer some of the more frequent of these, that I’ve seen out there. In part …

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Simple Thru-Hiking Calories Burned On The Trail Calculator

This simple backpacking calorie calculator lets you enter your age, weight, height, pack weight, and minutes spent on 3 simple trail conditions – uphill, downhill, and flat – to get an approximation of how many calories are burned during your hike. Like my light pack, day hiking calories burned on the trail calculator (here) and my light pack, day hiking …