Nourishing our kids with meaningful wilderness experiences can be a full-time job, and if you’re a parent who’s taken the kids camping, you know that mealtime is nooo exception! Meal time can perhaps be the most joyous or stressful moment of a family camping trip or road trip. We are…
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What’s Your Camping Style?
Take a deep dive into our curated Meal Bundles, designed for Every Camper Type! Camping isn’t just a one-size-fits-all experience; it’s a world of diverse outdoor adventures waiting to be explored. Whether you’re an intrepid backpacker seeking solitude in the backcountry or a family of campers looking to enjoy the…
5 Tips For How To Cook Over A Campfire
There’s nothing better than the magic of a campfire on a cool night — the crackling of the wood, the familiar woodsy smell, and the opportunity for some campfire cooking! Whether it’s perfecting your method or bringing the right gear, planning and thinking ahead matters when it comes to depending on your own fire building and skills to cook over an open fire with unrelenting high temperatures…Here are 5 tips for a successful campfire cookout!
Reflections of a Modern Adventure Dad
Viktor Frankl once wrote that what one really needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of oneself. For many of us, there is no more worthy a goal than parenting. This month, in celebration of father figures everywhere, we sat down…
REMIX! Take your Texas State Fair Chili beyond the bowl.
From the moment we launched our TX State Fair Chili, it has been an award-winning fan favorite! Over the years, we’ve realized the true potential for chili to transcend any and all culinary rules. A true wild card of camp comfort foods and a champion of flavor pairings. So, without…
The Subtle Art of Motherhood & Food
It is an art after all…there are no shortcuts, no rulebooks, and infinite possibilities when embarking upon the journey of motherhood. In many ways, parenting is a lot like creating a new meal or crafting a tasty recipe. It takes creativity, preparation, and going with the flow! We sat down…
New to Nature? Here’s how to leave the great outdoors exactly how you found it
Right now, we all want out. Out of the house, out of the city, or let’s be real, we may go out of our minds! But before heading outside, here’s 8 simple (and very important!) tips on how to respect our land, wildlife and fellow nature-seekers! Let’s start with the…
10 Things to Know Before Planning a Trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve is home to the tallest dunes in North America, topping out at around 755 feet. These ever-shifting hills and mounds sit west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, creating a mind-boggling, desert-like landscape surrounded by 14,000-foot snow-capped peaks. Compared to most of Colorado’s…
How to Travel 18,000 Miles With Your Dog
For two years, I worked toward a lofty life dream: to outfit a van and drive from California to Patagonia. By last winter, plans were finally coming to fruition. I quit my job, my boyfriend and I set a date to move out of our house, and our van was,…
The 10 Best Places to Camp for Free in Northern California
It’s hard to think of a more satisfying way to spend a beautiful weekend than camping on one of Northern California’s spectacular array of public lands—except, perhaps, camping there for free. Land managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is typically home to lots of…