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Camping on the surface of the sun.

June 30th, 2008 Russell 3 comments

Lake Piru, oh how we hated thee.
Okay, so in all honesty it’s not the lakes fault that the weekend we went out there, ended up being a record heat wave in triple digits every single day, or that we spent about half of the time there in the local emergency room.  However I’m still going [...]

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Things the dogs taught us.

June 18th, 2008 Russell No comments

Hazen specifically LOVES to hike and explore.  So one quick lesson was make sure he’s not trying to on his own.  The main part of the gear we brought along to try and keep the boys contained, was an X-pen.  We thought this might be the thing to do the trick from the get-go, as [...]

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Lake Piru, CA

June 18th, 2008 Russell No comments

So I still haven’t finished writing up everything I want to about the Cachuma trip we took a week and a half ago.  I blame work, but Gena would probably point at my procrastination skills being in full effect.  Either way, I’ve got more to write here about that trip we already took, and here [...]

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OM NOM NOM NOM

June 17th, 2008 Russell No comments

So, one of the biggest things we had to think about going into the camping adventure was, food.  Of course.  It’s just one of those things that if you forget it, well… you die.  We decided early on to avoid that, and opt for a tastier fate.
Our menu consisted of a few things we typically have [...]

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Cachuma: Survived.

June 9th, 2008 Russell 1 comment

So, a great weekend that went by way too fast is behind us.  Did we have a great time? You betcha!  Did we get a good test of all of our gear?  Beyond a doubt!  Did we realize a few things we could tweak for improvements?  Oh heck yeah!
First off I just want to say [...]

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