A Hidden Potassium Food
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A Hidden Potassium Food

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Years ago, I found the best snack when hiking in the heat was a single serving of potato chips and water. It had potassium, salt, and water - giving you easy hydration and potassium to help potentially ward off leg cramps. Something I learned early on - when on one of my first backpacking trips,… Continue reading A Hidden Potassium Food

Still Here: It’s Gardening Season
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Still Here: It’s Gardening Season

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Spring is a hard time for me - I am so busy building our new gardens still (and have been since we moved to West Virginia in March of 2025). I am finally nearly done with the daily work - it is built and planted. I have two hobbies: Growing things and hiking. They cross… Continue reading Still Here: It’s Gardening Season

Food Find: Top Ramen Hot Pot
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Food Find: Top Ramen Hot Pot

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$2.99 for a bowl of ramen on the trail isn't cheap by any means. However, the Top Ramen Hot Pot ones might be worth the $3. It's claim is this is a "sharing" size (as if anyone would do that....) due to the higher sodium and calorie content. I discuss below how to work around… Continue reading Food Find: Top Ramen Hot Pot

Fairfax Stone State Park
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Fairfax Stone State Park

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In what is most likely West Virginia's smallest state park, two monuments mark the farthest reaches of Lord Fairfax's land grant from colonial times. Fairfax Stone State Park comprises four acres and is named after the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor’s marker and boundary stone used in the 1700s to settle a dispute over land in… Continue reading Fairfax Stone State Park

Blackwater Falls State Park
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Blackwater Falls State Park

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Driving in West Virginia can be interesting, in that what shouldn't be as far away is. Because nothing is a straight line, and you have to cross a lot of mountain ridges to get into even the edge of the interior of the state, if you live in the Eastern Panhandle of the state. I… Continue reading Blackwater Falls State Park