Whether you’re creating backpacking meals for the trail, looking to eat healthier with fewer preservatives or are trying to feed a family on a budget, our Dehydrating Guide has your drying needs covered. Learning how to dehydrate food has never been easier than with our beginner’s guide. From recipes to expert tips – we’ve got you […]
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Cleaning an Excalibur dehydrator doesn’t have to be intimidating or time-consuming. With the right techniques, anyone can quickly and easily learn how to clean an Excalibur dehydrator to ensure it stays in tip-top shape for many years of use. I’m excited to share with you some of the best tips I’ve learned over the past 10
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Cleaning your food dehydrator may feel overwhelming but use these simple tips to easily maintain your dehydrator for years (or even decades)!
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Florida Trail: Day 60 March 6, 2022 Mile: 566.8 to 591.7 (+.3 for 25.2 total miles) Start: Hobo camp on the old rail bed in forest, 100ft from Highway 100 Finish: Campsite 20, Ocean Pond Campground We woke up in our highway hobo camp as the first rays of dim sunlight started to filter through
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Florida Trail: Day 43-47 Feb 18-21, 2022 Mile: 408.1 to 419.1 (+2.8mi for 13.8 total miles) Start: Mutual Mine Campground, Withlacoochee State Forest Finish: Pat & Kathie’s house at The Villages via Inverness, FL We woke up fairly early this morning to get up and out around sunrise. The Mutual Mine Campground had been pretty
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Florida Trail: Day 40 Feb 15, 2022 Mile: 344.9 to 363.8 (18.9 miles) Start: Hampton Inn, Dade City, FL via CR471 Finish: South Campsite, Richloam Tract, FL This morning I woke up at 5:30 and could not go back to sleep so I read some books and messed around on the internet for a little
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Florida Trail: Day 39 Feb 14, 2022 Mile: 329.8 to 344.9 (15.1 miles) Start: Holiday Inn, Davenport, FL via Circle K at Hwy 27 near Orlando Finish: Hampton Inn, Dade City, FL via CR471 This morning was Valentine’s Day and since we both dislike Valentine’s Day, we did not give a crap about what we
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Florida Trail: Day 38 Feb 13, 2022 Mile: 329.8 to 312.9 (16.9 miles southbound slackpack) Start: Holiday Inn, Davenport, FL via Circle K at Hwy 27 near Orlando Finish: Holiday Inn, Davenport, FL via Circle K at Hwy 27 near Orlando We figured out a plan where we’re going to stay an extra day so
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Florida Trail: Day 34 Feb 9, 2022 Mile: 277.5 to 295.4 (17.9 miles) Start: Budget Inn, St. Cloud, FL via Doc Partin Ranch Rd & Canoe Creek Rd Finish: Crown Motel, Kissimmee, FL via Kissimmee Lakefront Park Shannon and I hung out in the Budget Inn and enjoyed a slow morning because we are only
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Florida Trail: Day 21 January 27, 2022 Mile: 81.7 to 99.8 (18.1 miles) Start: Two Palms dumpy campsite next to gator ditch and sugarcane field Finish: South Bay RV Resort, South Bay, FL This morning we woke to the mosquito alarm clock followed by birds once the sun started to rise. The tent site was
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Florida Trail: Day 19 January 25, 2022 Mile: 35.7 to 57.7 (22.0 miles) Start: Nobles Camp, Alligator Alley on the old Miccosukee trading route Finish: Canal camping with the fireflies and alligators Around two or three in the morning I heard something rustling through the woods around our camp. It might’ve been some wild pigs
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PCT Day 85 July 24, 2021 Mile: 863.7 to 874.5 (plus 5 mi side trail & 2.5 mi road walk) (18.3 total miles) Start: Sallie Keyes Lake Finish: Mono Hot Springs campground via Bear Ridge trailhead We woke up this morning excited to go resupply but also kind of bummed because we’ve been calculating how
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PCT Day 82 July 21, 2021 Mile: 803.6 to 820.4 (16.8 total miles) Start: Stealth camping in random field near Sawmill Pass Trail Finish: Island tent site at lower Palisades Lake surrounded by waterfalls and rivers Very concerned this morning, Shannon said he heard something nuzzling our overly full bear canisters tucked away in some
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PCT Day 81 July 20, 2021 Mile: 788.5 (+1.5 mi side trail to the PCT) to 803.6 (16.6 total miles) Start: Unnamed alpine lake near Bullfrog Lake at Kearsarge Pass Trail Finish: Random field site near Sawmill Pass Trail Last night I was a bit concerned that there was an enterprising black bear near our
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PCT Day 58 Mile: 668.7 to 693.5 June 27 2021 Start: Spanish Needle Creek. Finish: Mantet Creek tentsite, aka the scorpion kingdom. Shannon and I left camp late in the morning as it was so nice and shady and quiet that we were able to enjoy the place in peace. True to his word, Lickety
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PCT day 27 Mile: 317.3 to 341.9 (24.6 miles) Start: Coyote spring campsite Finish: Sharing the floor of an Airbnb in Wrightwood, California with 12+ hikers (via Cajon Pass, Highway I-15) We spent some time at our breakfast of oatmeal and tea and coffee trying to figure out what had come around our campsite last
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PCT Day 24 Mile: 266.1 to 275.0 Start: Robinhood resort hotel, Big Bear Lake, California Finish: Caribou Creek tentsite (aka Camp Twinkie) At 4:15am, I rolled out of bed, checked the UAV forecast app on my phone (UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which is like the weather forecast for flying drones safely since I was
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PCT day 16 Mile: 197.2 to 209.6 (12.4 miles) Start: Windy campsite 4800 feet up Mount San Jacinto Finish: Comfy soft bed in Palm Desert Via Tamarack Rd past the I-10 highway overpass, Whitewater, CA We descended the mountain early in the morning following a blustery night of hurricane winds threatening to topple over our
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PCT Day 14 Mile: 162.7 to 181.2, plus a 3.7 mile detour to the summit of Mount San Jacinto (22.2 miles) Start: Cedar Spring remote campsite Finish: Tenting just below Mount San Jacinto summit Shannon and I woke up at 5:15am, grabbed some additional water to tank up for the next 15 miles and hung
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The bitter sub-arctic winds came howling through the barren night, the gusts chilling anything not hunkered down, pulling and tugging as it had for ages at the indifferent glint of black lava glass chunks scattered across the rocky field. Our tent constantly flapped in the stiff breeze so loudly that it would have been nearly
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