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Dehydrated hamburger. Lightly brown breaking up all the chunks. Dehydrate (leather sheets work best), bag and store in refrigerator. Dehydrated chicken. Use ground chicken and do same as hamburger. Just Tomatoes is a great, sometimes quite cheap source of already … Continue reading →

Lunch starts shortly after breakfast and makes up most of the calories consumed in a day. Maintain a steady intake of energy to replace what is getting burned. Lunch is not usually a sit-down cooked meal on a hike. Rather, … Continue reading →

RECIPES Oatmeal: Instant, Trail Mix, Turbocharged Granola, Kitchen Sink Granola Quinoa Hot Cereal Cheese Biscuits Wraps: Pretty in Pink, PB Crunch, Berry Berry Eggs: Breakfast Burrito, Monte Cristo, Bacon and Egg Omelette, Veggie Frittate ICKA Brunch Bagels Pepperoni and Cheese … Continue reading →

STAY FUELED ON THE TRAIL 1. Mindful Planning Digestibility is important when choosing fuel because many foods take large amounts of energy to digest. Net gain refers to the useable nutrition the body is left with once the food is … Continue reading →

BACKPACKING MEAL PREPARATION Most of us who seek out the backpacker’s life have read a million trail-cooking recipes, learned about the freezer bag method and had a myriad of experiences with backpacking meals. I’ve run the gamut myself, to the … Continue reading →

TOGIAN ISLANDS – Travel Facts The Togian Islands are an archipelago in the Gulf of Tomini, Central Sulawesi in Indonesia. There are ATMs for Mastercard and Cirrus available at the mainland of Ampana but they cannot be used for VISA. … Continue reading →

RUSSIA AND PUTIN After the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people was shot down over Ukraine, the scene was horrible – hundreds of bodies lay rotting in the hot July sun as pro-Russian militiamen used their weapons to keep … Continue reading →

CHINA AND FOREIGN RELATIONS Beijing has fostered trade ties but lacks reliable allies. As China continues its rise, it will need strong allies. That’s a problem, because it doesn’t have any. China has become the lead trade partner for more … Continue reading →

Three new studies reveal just how sick the oceans are – and how big a role humans are playing. Start with climate change: according to a report from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2014 was the hottest … Continue reading →

WALL STREET RISES AGAIN Be afraid. Be very afraid. By William D. Cohandec Jan-Feb 2015 Atlantic You may not have noticed amidst the continued, public grumbling of its leaders, but Wall Street, indisputably, is back. The flow of complaints from … Continue reading →