The Outdoor Edge Chow Pal has become a companion piece for me. It's a furthering of the concept of the camp knife. If you think about it,...

Saturday morning, December 3, the Rock Island Canoe Team launched the first overnight river trip of 2022. With an overcast sky, mild...

June 6 - 9 Dottie and I, another family and two friends of our son made a three day, two night camping recon of the Guadalupe River State...

Thursday April 7th, 2022, Dottie, Geoff and I surveyed the lower of the two highway 377 bridges crossing the South Llano River. This low...

Though plans frequently unravel in unpredictable ways, every now and again things fall in place. Happily, my family and I enjoyed a five...

The CRKT Minimalist Cleaver is a small (tiny?) knife suitable for everyday carry in either urban or remote environments. The Knife: This...

After 2020 my thirst for canoeing new waters fueled my plans and sparked my imagination. I turned my eyes to a sixty-four mile piece of...

Dusk at Goliad State Park found my family enjoying the quiet and hotdogs cooked over a mesquite wood flame. The neighbors were having a...

Other than temporarily escaping the hamster wheel of society, maybe now and Zen finding a moment, or finding yourself in the "middle,"...

The question "Why camp?" usually presses my mind about halfway through packing the van on the day of departure of a camping trip. "Is it...

Plans and Objectives: My brother and I spent a good portion of April 2018 planning an overnight canoe trip on the Texas Colorado River. I...

Camp knives run the spectrum from plastic utensils and household butcher knives to neat folders and stout fixed blades made of fine...

I have a purpose for writing the next bit. I grew up in the outdoors and I am able to face most weather conditions. It is a rare...

...Later that year, on April 17, 2016, I got to see some more strong weather in a tent. I had treated our Mountain Trails tent with three...

This will be a series of post on the weather from an outdoors perspective. These will be some of my experiences. They may be extreme to...

We camp the backyard more than any other place. I had done this as a kid, but not as an adult. I had bigger and better things to do...I...

With Cole's departure to San Diego delayed I took the opportunity and planned another overnight river river trip. The February trip had...

February 2014 we hit the Texas Colorado River. This would mark my return to the canoe, the river and river camping. 2014 turned out a...

Over the years we have visited Galveston State Park four or five times. This is a popular, well-funded state park. It is an environmental...

We enjoyed this park deeply. It is very similar to Huntsville State Park.  There seemed to be minimal traffic (boat, car, and camper)....