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Kelty Hula Shade House Basecamp Shelter Weve become car camping connoisseurs since our kids were born. Our gear for a two-day campout almost fills the back of the truck, but the luxuries we carry with us make the experience so much easier. Well get back to the lightweight, fast-moving backpack trips of our past one …
The Women’s Patagonia Rainshadow Jacket Since we live in Montana, we always carry rain jackets. Even on the sunniest weekends, it can rain or snow. The is lightweight and highly packable. This makes it easy to carry on any adventure (and fit nicely into the back of the tightly packed truck or a tightly …
I was ridiculously excited when this arrived at our house. No more balancing the stove at the end of the table while guarding it from the boys. No more reaching around for pans or spices. The Kelty Basecamp Kitchen keeps everything right where I need it, and away from the eating area. The Basecamp Kitchen …
Weve grown to love this Swedish company and the cute and functional clothes they make. Our boys wear their wind fleeces most days of the years, and our younger son stays dry in his rain jacket and rain mittens. Now we are enamored with the Polarn O. Pyret Rain Trousers. The adorable suspenders keep the …
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There are so many things to do in Red Lodge, Montana during the summer. Explore this charming small town at the base of the Beartooth Mountains.
Some people are really into canoeing. If youre one of them, or wish you were, pick up the 20th-anniversary edition of . Jacobson has gathered his friends together to produce a very thorough guide to canoeing northern rivers. This hefty tome to wilderness canoeing starts with how to research a river and ends with a …
There is no need to hike naked to a visitor center after your boat is capsized and pinned to a rock midriver. Your friends dont have to almost die from hypothermia crossing a lake because you chose to save the gear first. These things happened to Alan Kesselheim and you can learn from his mistakes …
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Barry Lopez is a master of literary non-fiction, but even he occasionally has trouble finding the right words to describe the landscapes he so aptly writes about. Which is why he, along with managing editor, Debra Gwartney, has compiled a tome of evocative terms and their definitions that describe the American landscape. (Trinity University …
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There is nothing new about romanticizing the Old West. Even as the days of get along little doggies were beginning to wane, writers and artists were longing for years gone by. Caroline Lockhart was one of those writers, who, in the early part of the last century wrote tales of the Wild West, even when …
Grizzly bears have always been contentious, portrayed as man-killers and livestock-raiders; the embodiment of cruelty to some and wildness to others. Its apropos that at a time when courts are struggling with the legality of delisting the great bear from the Federal Endangered Species list, Mike Lapinski would write his book, , chronicling the hard …
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