Taking your temperature
How many times have you come back from winter camping and in the process of relating your story been forced to say things like “Well, it was cold. It was 10 degrees in the valley, so I’m sure it was…
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How much down do I need to go camping in outer space?
I just recently finished making my own sleeping bag. So, let’s say you are like me and you want one as well. One of the initial things that you will want to do is gather your materials. Although it’s a…
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Caviar and Mimosas
Happy New Year everyone. Hopefully you too are enjoying a lazy New Year’s day with good food and drink. And in case you haven’t heard, the winter campout was wildly successful. I’m currently awaiting pictures that need to be developed,1…
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Operation McChoppin’ Storm
The forces are assemblying and converging on the VT. The Slickman is arriving by land, I am coming by air, and word has it that Dan the Man may be coming by way of the sea. It’s blitzkrieg on the…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Winter Camping
I finished my sleeping bag. Just in time for the impending winter campout. It looks awesome. And it has slightly more loft then my synthetic fiber sleeping bag from EMS. Surprisingly though, it weighs the same or maybe a little…
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Dan’s Shackleton
Owing to the fact that I grew up with three sisters, the closest thing I have to a brother is the Slickman. However, the closest thing the Slickman has to a brother is Dan the Man, his actual brother. Dan…
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A Christmas Cocktail
The sleeping bag is coming along, but very slowly. I keep getting distracted by a lot of things. Soap making. Fixing leaky faucets. Getting a Christmas tree and then making a wreath out of the excess boughs…. Yes, it is…
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Beer and sewing
What happens when one wants good quality camping gear that isn’t made from crazy synthetic materials? For a while I thought it was “nothing,” we are now doomed to purchase bright-orange nylon bags with material brand-names like “Event” or “Nano”…
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Long Spoon
I got this today: Marc Johns’ work speaks to me: ridiculousness, whimsy, and objects that are ordinary but, strangely, play important roles in my life story. I have a few of Marc’s prints and I had been wanting an original,…
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Mayperhappenstance
In the not so distant past I wrote a paper. It was technical in nature. Some might even say it was a technical paper. In the body of the text, some deep inside of it, I used the word “happenstance.”…
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