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    What can I bring while camping?

    Odd that you're posting about a February trip at the end of March, but wool blankets are a godsend in cold weather. If you don't want to drop big bucks on name brands like Pendleton, Woolrich or Creswick, Army surplus wool blankets are relatively cheap. They're "itchier" than the name brands...
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    Anyone have experience with the Kodiak Flex-Bow Tent.

    A little late to reply. Camping forums always seem to go dead in winter. I have a 10x10 and an 8.5x6 Kodiak and I love 'em both to the point where I haven't taken out my nylon tents in a couple of years, I can't speak to the dust issue, but I've had them both out in windy, stormy weather and...
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    Winter Thoughts Jan 2019

    I'll admit that I take way more creature comforts with me now than when my hair was brown, but I'm not ready to give it up just yet. I remember when I first started camping with the group I'm in, we'd sit and talk about how we'd "still be doing this when we're 50". Well... that's come and gone...
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    Winter Thoughts Jan 2019

    What constitutes nice must be subjective. I pray for massive snow every year and it seems there's someone in some distant part of the country that gets it and I don't. LOVE snow camping!
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    Winter Thoughts Jan 2019

    Me? I've been wondering when people were going to come back to the camping forums. They all get dead in Winter. Guess I'm about one of eleven people on Earth who try to get out even when the temps are around freezing and below. It's been driving me crazy for over a month that I can't seem to get...
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    What do you guys think is the best style of campfires?

    Anyone needing Trioxane, whether to beef up existing stock or to check it out, Sportsman's Guide has a better price on the stuff than I've seen online in quite a while. Here's their 30 pack. Beats what I've been selling mine for. Hope the locals don't find that page. :p
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    What do you guys think is the best style of campfires?

    Still got plenty to go, but I can't say I've ever sold anything online. Craigslist for local pickups and yard sales have done well for me.
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    Finally got away for a bit

    The weather finally cooperated. We're something like 22 inches over the average for rainfall in September but we finally had a clear weekend. So, I jumped out to western Maryland for a weekend sanity saver and a trial run with some new gear. I discovered something very important. When you make...
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    Best Coffee Maker for Fire Pit and Over Fire Camp Grill recommendations ????

    My grandmother loved tea. I mean really loved the stuff. I had to build shelves in her kitchen to hold the dozens of varieties she had on hand. I remember her asking me if I liked tea. When I told her I didn't, she said it's because I'd never had good tea. So, probably because you never say no...
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    Tent Choices

    That reminds me of the Coleman Oasis I had years ago. There was one trip in particular that we thought was going to turn us into a Wizard of Oz remake. Woke up the next morning with water literally running under the tent - with no groundsheet - and we were high (back then probably literally) and...
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    BIGGEST fish you've caught in fresh water

    The only fish I ever bothered to mount is a smallmouth. Maryland freshwater fishing in general isn't noted for fish the size y'all get further south. Loch Raven Reservoir is fairly small but oh so close to my house, so mostly where I go. With tons of largemouth, an odd perch here and there and a...
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    BIGGEST fish you've caught in fresh water

    On a day when I didn't see anyone pulling anything out, I fought a 35 inch Tiger Muskie with a 5-1/2 foot light action rod with 6 pound test for over an hour. The best part of it was that I was on a reservoir where all the "professionals" in their $30,000 lake rigs were looking at my electric...
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    Best Coffee Maker for Fire Pit and Over Fire Camp Grill recommendations ????

    The only problem with that is, coffee tastes like it's divine in origin and tea tastes like what you'd get if you poured boiling water through the grass catcher on a lawnmower. ;)
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    The Shoot The Bull Thread

    Amen to that! Unless the weather takes a really bad turn for the worse, I'm taking an early day Friday and doing a quick solo trip for a couple of days.
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    What do you guys think is the best style of campfires?

    That reminded me of the time we had a new couple join our group. The new guy thought he was Mr.-Outdoors-You-Don't-Know-Squat. Convinced he could make the best fire ever, he proceeded to stack what looked like a solid box of wood. After about an hour of us getting smoked out and a dozen times...
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