Want cheese on your trip but are worried about spoilage? Cheeses in waxed packaging, like Babybel, or hard cheeses, like Gruyere, can keep up to a week without refrigeration.
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Camping
Trying to Stay Warm?
Don’t Bury your Face Under your Sleeping Bag The moisture from your breath will cancel out its insulating properties.
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Open the Vents in your Tent even if it’s Freezing
Otherwise, your breath will condense, creating snow or water inside your tent.
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Use Wood Ash as a Soil Fertilizer
Save the ashes from campfires, fire pits, your fireplace or wood stove to spread throughout your garden to act as an organic soil booster. Wood ashes contain potassium, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium which encourage strong root and stem growth.
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Add Warmth to your Sleeping Bag
Put boiling water in your water bottle (make sure it’s able to withstand boiling temperatures, like a Nalgene), place a sock around it, then sleep with it at your feet. In the morning, you’ll have non-frozen water to drink.
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Tailgating Party
This the best option when the grass is wet, when there aren’t any tables available, or when you just don’t have time to set up and take down fast enough.
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Flashlight Stopped Working While Camping?
The batteries might be too cold – hold them in your hand near a heat source or keep them in your sleeping bag. They don’t discharge as well until warmed up.
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When Fishing Shallow Water
Use an Underhand Cast with a Low Trajectory to the Water When fishing shallow water, make sure to use an underhand cast with a low trajectory to the water rather than the traditional overhead long bomb (in some situations, the noise can cause our finned-friends to flee).
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Going Camping?
Put Some Glow in the Dark Paint on your Tent It’ll make it easier to navigate back to your tent at night.
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Bring Trick Candles When You Go Camping
If the wind keeps blowing out your match or lighter, you’ll still be able to light your fire with a trick candle. It relights itself when it gets blown out.
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