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Finally, someone answered the age old question: Is it okay for me to pee in the ocean? The short answer is, yes. We’ve all been there, a crowded beach, people everywhere and long lines for the [...]

Eight Legged Monsters Spiders are everywhere, from you own bedroom to five star hotels, and they are definitely there when you are camping. It wasn’t too long ago that I was deathly afraid of [...]

(Cover photo: Perseid meteor shower, 2009. Photo credit: Wikipedia) Look Up! If you’ve been looking up at the sky you may or may not have noticed an increase in what looks like fireballs shooting [...]

(Cover photo: Mesa Verde National Park. Credit: NPS) Celebrate in a National Park near you On August 25th, 2014 the National Park Service is celebrating its 96th birthday with a huge celebration [...]

Fishing in fun! There is nothing more peaceful that sitting in the middle of a lake, quietly and patiently waiting for that fish to catch, checking your equipment, sharing silence, and hopefully [...]

Wandering off the beaten path We talk a lot about packing up a tent and a backpack and heading out to relatively unchartered territory, get lost from the crowds and finding some solitude to relax [...]

We are explorers, we are adventurers and we want to see things “first hand”, and not just sit in front of the Nature Channel watching documentaries on exotic bugs and proud predators. We travel [...]

When you travel you want to soak up as much of the atmosphere and culture of the city you are visiting. Being submerged in a foreign culture, finding out what the locals eat and drink, where they [...]

Be a part of the tent making process Why settle for the store bought tent measurements when you can create your own tent exactly as you want it. At Denver Tent Company we have over a century of [...]

There’s camping by the cliffside, and then theres camping on the cliffside You can mark this blog down as “things I will never do in my lifetime but am amazed that others have even tried, [...]