Leave the rosé at home, lace up those dusty trail runners (preferably not the neon ones from 2012), and prepare to traipse through the Inyo Wilderness for four soul-cleansing days of pure, unfiltered nature. That means sweating until you cry, sleeping on a rock that’s pretending to be a sleeping pad, and wondering why you …
Beets. Bees. Authentic Barbacoa. What do these three have in common? (Please don’t say Dwight from The Office) Here we are, summertime, 2025 and just maybe I am having a love affair with beets. I literally have beet salad for lunch basically every day. I just came back from an amazing hiking/ camping getaway with …
We all love camping, but for fucks sake let’s try to be intelligent campers! Did I really need to use a F-bomb in the first line of this blog? I did. Because Victor the resident Lake Mary black bear was uselessly killed last month. This whole incident could have been avoided if other campers could …
As much as we all love the call of the great outdoors, oh, the joys of having indoor motorhome plumbing can lead to some odors. Spending your life hiking up mountains, mountain biking along alpine streams, and cuddling with your smelly adventure dog can make for smelly campers by the evening back at camp. In …
When it comes to camping, everybody has to start somewhere. Usually, there are hijinks involved, bears break into coolers and someone always freezes their ass off. I’ve camped with a lot of newbie campers. Yes, they are usually the first ones to not listen and have the bears eat all their food the first night. …


