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Snowshoe day trip in cuyahoga valley national park with my wife, father in law and Abby just before a snow squall hit yesterday afternoon. Beautiful.

Grew up on a NE Ohio farm. I’ve eaten many groundhogs. Better to stick with the young ones.

I skied in sunshine yesterday and ran in sunshine (and 5 degrees) this morning just south of downtown Cleveland!

We’ve been having sunny skies in Cleveland since Lake Erie largely froze and the lake effect stopped.

I was in diapers when my dad and grandfather took me on my first overnight canoe trip. Growing up on the banks of the tuscarawas river in Ohio, I spent my childhood in a canoe year round; simple day trips, nighttime frog hunting, trapping forays and occasional overnighters. This fostered an...

About 16 beautiful inches in Cleveland, Ohio. We usually have to chase it to x country ski, but it’s all right here and looks to be for weeks! Love it!

This is how I’ve always handled it and have yet to get sick. On a trip last year, we caught a couple of large fish just after lunch that we’d have for dinner. We did the fillet in zip lock thing. Severe storms delayed our travel and it ended up being about 8 hours before we ate those fish. I...

I’ve probably been through a dozen or so headlamps in my wilderness traveling career. My wife just bought me a petzl lamp for Xmas that I really like. It has a rechargeable battery, but also runs on 3 AAA batteries. I always carry spares anyways, so I’ll just have the rechargeable in there with...

It is indeed. A group of us hiked from Route 30 to the northern terminus. Rhodo tunnel is still there.

A winter weekend backpacking trip on Laurel ridge, PA.

Here is the one I use:https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/paneer-pasanda/ You’ll need to find a decent Indian foods store to source some of the ingredients. Once you have the spices, they’ll go a long way. I typically at least double the recipe. We eat some at home and dehydrate the rest on a...

This is a good meal as well! Dehydrated our own paneer pasanda for a 10 day trip. It was popular and will certainly be repeated.

We make all our own. My current favorite is a spaghetti squash bake with tomato sauce, impossible grounds, whatever veggies we have in the house and plenty of cheese. So good out in the wilderness. We dehydrate all of our own food; basically the many of the same things we eat at home. We...

A large group of surfers that I occasionally include myself in surfs Lake Erie this time of year until the lake freezes. We’re in full wetsuits, but hair and beards freeze solid. It’s the best time of year for good swells.

We often use the Merlin app backpacking and rarely have service on those trips. It works great if you’ve downloaded the birds for the region you’re in. We did a long backpack in the Pennsylvania wilds at peak warbler migration and identified about 25 unique calls. Then on a 10 night trip in...