Monthly Archives: April 2010

  I love exploring the outdoors, but my idea of roughing it has changed over the years.  Hiking into a wilderness area with my every creature comfort strapped to my back suited me for many years,.  But not now. Longer getaways are more difficult to arrange, so we weekend camp.  A lake here.  A river there.  A hill somewhere.  We’re not tracking Bigfoot, we just want to poke a fire and toss the frisbee. However, our plans for relaxation are often accompanied by the worst weather possible.  Once we watched a squall move across the vast lake and park over …