The campsite, the solar, the gear — those you can improvise. Run dry three days from a tap and the trip ends. Nobody talks about water the way they talk about solar. There are …
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Every year, the campgrounds fill up by Thursday. Every year, we go the other way. There’s a particular kind of stillness that settles over a dispersed site on Memorial Day weekend — the kind …
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Why a proper cast-iron camp breakfast is one of the best rituals a boondocker can keep. The desert wakes up before you do. By the time the canvas is pulled back and the boots …
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A miserable night twenty miles out beats a ruined trip a thousand miles in. Every spring, the same thing happens. Somebody on the forums posts a glamour shot of their rig parked at some …
Every shut-down dispersed site in the West has the same origin story. Here’s how to stop being part of it. A site I loved closed recently. Standard issue — pretty creek, BLM, ten miles …
