Topic: camping

Get Off The Grid For Labor Day To Reset For Fall

Get Off The Grid For Labor Day To Reset For Fall

It was a plum assignment for a food, travel and fitness writer – go on a five day white water rafting and catered camping trip on the Rogue River in Oregon. Adventures on the water all day, new fitness challenges, abundant, cooked from scratch meals to feed a ravenous appetite, nights spent under the stars of the Northwest Pacific. All expenses paid, and a paid story assignment, to boot. The only catch? I’d be off the grid for five days. More »

What You Need To Know About Hantavirus & The Threat In Yosemite

What You Need To Know About Hantavirus & The Threat In Yosemite

Yosemite National Park has issued an official warning to those who have visited the frequent family vacation spot since June. Visitors, espescially those who stayed in the “Curry Village” cabins, are at risk for hantavirus, a life-threatening disease that’s spread through rodents. So far, two people have died of hantavirus and there’s been one other confirmed case out of Yosemite. So with this mildly terrifying threat out there, we at Blisstree wanted to put together some facts so that vacationers can keep healthy and keep the fear at bay. More »

Camping For Beginners: What I Learned From Breaking My Boyfriend Into The Great Outdoors

Camping For Beginners: What I Learned From Breaking My Boyfriend Into The Great Outdoors

For me, it just doesn’t feel like summer without at least one good, dirty-footed, campfire-stinking, vegan hot-dog-eating camping trip. But for those who maybe didn’t grow up pitching tents and splitting wood (like my fairly indoor and highly patient boyfriend, Adam), camping can seem like an intimidating, not-very-fun alternative to, say, a weekend spent in the comfort of a bustling city. Which is why I’ve put together a little list of the things I’ve learned to make camping for beginners not only tolerable, but actually fun and refreshing and lovely. More »

Into The Woods: 9 Steps To Protect Yourself From Ticks And Other Pests

Into The Woods: 9 Steps To Protect Yourself From Ticks And Other Pests

It’s hard to believe May is already nearly upon us, but there it is—looming a week from today. It won’t be long before camping trips are in order, or at least hiking and backyard cookouts. But with spring’s bounty and the great outdoors come bugs, bears and bacteria. Ticks are one of the most pernicious of these woodland pests, spreading lyme disease and other nasty illnesses. Here are a few tips for outwitting these creepy little bloodsuckers and other things in the woods that might want to kill you. More »

Camping, Made Easy: Pocket-Style Campfire Cooking

Camping, Made Easy: Pocket-Style Campfire Cooking

Everything I know about cooking around a campfire, I learned in Girl Scouts. Things never got too gourmet, but we did move beyond The Stick method of campfire meal preparation (not that there’s anything wrong with the stick, just that it’s usefulness is really limited to marshmallows and cased meats). When we weren’t participating in the dreaded “polar bear breakfast” — a bizarre form of Girl Scout camp torture in which you are required to jump into a pool full of freezing cold water at 7 a.m. in order to retrieve your ziplock-bag-protected cereal boxes and apples from the bottom of a pool — we did a lot of mess kit and pocket cooking. More »

Fall Weekend Gear: 10 Eco-Friendly Day Trip Accessories

Fall Weekend Gear: 10 Eco-Friendly Day Trip Accessories

So we may have complained about the cold fall weather, but we do like fall. Seriously. And one of our favorite things about the next few months is taking outdoorsy weekend trips. We like apple-picking, leaf-peeping, fall hiking, and carving pumpkins that we’ve picked ourselves. Basically, if you can see a family doing it in an L.L. Bean catalog, we’re all over it. Unfortunately, not everything in L.L. Bean is super eco-friendly, so we found some of our favorite green gear to wear, pack, and keep comfortable with on your day trips for the next few weekends. More »

SPONSORED POST: Experience Extraordinary Fall Colors Across Ontario This Autumn

SPONSORED POST: Experience Extraordinary Fall Colors Across Ontario This Autumn

Fall means foliage, and the province of Ontario is teeming with all the brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows leaf-peepers desire.

One of our many pristine places to view fall’s brightest colors is Algonquin Provincial Park, located in south-central Ontario. Daily during autumn, Aspens, Red Oaks, Tamaracks, and Sugar and Red Maples perform their spectacular outdoor show covering 2,946 sprawling square miles.

Hikers and bikers alike will love traversing among our impressive fall color explosions, while other visitors will enjoy camping, backcountry canoeing, and fishing for brook or lake trout. More »