This survival kit is put together so that a hiker will have greatly improved chances of surviving a few days in the mountains. It is small and light enough so that a hiker need never hesitate to take it along on even a day hike. I have been on many mountain rescues where a hiker [...]
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Category Archives: Scouts
Titcomb Basin in Wind River Range, Wyoming
Just got back from a 7 day hike in the Wind River Range, to the Titcomb Basin. Almost the whole trip was over 10,000′ elevation. Our itinerary: Eklund Lake, Island Lake, Upper Titcomb Basin, layover day and day hike to top of Knapsack Pass, Island Pass, Upper Sweeney Lake, and to Elkhart trailhead. This was [...]
Baking Pizza on a Caldera Cone and Stove / Outback Oven
On a July hike to Imogene Lake I tried making pizza using the Caldera Stove and the Outback Oven. These two make a nice combination for baking any bread or cake. This is a view of the ingredients in the bag, and the Caldera Cone Ti Tri assembled. My version of pizza uses a cup [...]
Camel Falls, Idaho, Owyhee Mountains
Our Scout troop, Troop 100 did a great spring backpack to a desert waterfall (dry) and we got to see some wildlife and wildflowers. The hike was to Camel Falls, a 2.5 mile hike in the Owyhee mountains. There was no trail, and the route was full of rocks, but nobody twisted an ankle. We [...]
Sawtooth 8 Day backpack
We had a great backpack in August of 2009, one we called the Sawtooth Slowpoke. We hiked 42 miles, with sufficient elevation gain and loss to count as a 50 mile hike for Boy Scout purposes. The backpack was from Petit Lake at the south of the range, to Sawtooth lake at the north of [...]
Spring Break Scout Hike: Grand Gulch in So. Utah
Troop/Crew 100 started the 2009 hiking season with a great 5 day backpack in southern Utah, in Grand Gulch. We had 4 groups of participants, who started at 2 different trailheads, and camped at different campsites over a 5 day period. Two groups started at Kane Gulch, and two started at Collins Springs. The shortest [...]
Loon Lake Idaho, and the wrecked Douglas B-23 Dragon Bomber
In the late 1930s the Douglas Aircraft Company found a superior design for a sturdy long range aircraft in the civilian DC-2 and DC-3. These were the finest passenger planes yet created, and also served as the basic form of military transport as the C-46 and C-47. The Army also wanted a better bomber than [...]
Jim’s first year in Scouts, summer of 2007
Our Scout activities in 2007 basically amounted to an experiment in whether young scouts of age 11 could carry off a schedule of adventurous activities, such as snow camping and backpacking. These pictures shows the backpacks and hikes that Jim and I were on. The scout troop we joined also had some other trips, which [...]