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Winter Camping: It All Has To End Sometime

Our snow has largely disappeared and left in us in the Spring shoulder season.  This can provide some awesome camping experiences with a lot of the advantages of winter camping (few people, great views uninhibited by vegetation) plus moderate temperatures.  We have had nice April trips to Cat Mountain and Tenant Creek Falls (which can [...]

Jockeybush Lake

We were looking to get in a quick overnight trip before black fly season.  Looking at the weather report for the weekend, things didn’t look very promising, with high winds, rain and freezing temperatures forecast for the weekend.  So Skip and Jim decided on a short Friday night overnight trip with plans to extract before [...]

Adirondack Park Trip Planning Tool – VisitAdirondacks.com

The six million acre Adirondack wilderness in Northern New York state spans an area larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon and Great Smokies National Parks combined.  However, There is no entry fee to the get into the Adirondacks, and no closing time. A year-round destination, the Adirondack’s eight distinct regions contain 85 percent of [...]

Measuring remaining fuel in butane canisters

Canister stoves are way convenient but suffer performance in cold weather.  That said, in the shoulder seasons of late fall and early spring one can use a canister stove.  Keeping it warm protected in your pack and/or in your sleeping bag at night is helpful.

One issue is once used, it is difficult to determine [...]