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    Preservation of Natural Spaces: The 7 Leave No Trace Principles

    With the warmer weather here and summer just around the corner, many people have begun spending more time outdoors enjoying some of their favourite hobbies such as camping, paddling, hiking, fishing and rock climbing. This post will be discussing the 7 Leave No Trace principles and how these guidelines can be applied while enjoying your favourite outdoor activities. Before we get to the meat and potatoes, if you are looking for some great reasons to get outdoors feel free to read The Powerful Benefits of Spending Time Outdoors: Mind, Body, and Soul or if you are looking for some camping activities feel free to read Fun Activities To Do While…

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    The Powerful Benefits of Spending Time Outdoors: Mind, Body, and Soul

    Hi! Welcome back, or should I be saying that to myself? It’s been quite some time since my last post. I hibernated during the winter, did some writing, worked on our Etsy store Sunshine & Bush shop and I’m back to share more with all of you outdoor enthusiasts.  Check out all the outdoors clothing and apparel we have at our online shop. In this post I’ll discuss the benefits of being outdoors. At the end of the day, Mother Nature is good for the mind, body and the soul. In late May, a few of my friends and I completed our first backcountry camping trip of the year. Boy…

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    19 Best Camping Meals That Require No Refrigeration

    It’s time to go camping again, but as is very common space is limited in your car. This article will provide you with the 19 best camp meals that require no refrigeration. We recently returned from our first backcountry camping trip and our goal was to bring food that didn’t need to remain cold since we weren’t bringing a cooler. We wanted easy camping meals so we packed freeze dried meals, granola bars, oatmeal and some cheese and crackers for our short trip. Our objective was to bring meals and snacks that were very calorie dense, but also compact enough to pack in with all our other gear. My girlfriend,…

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    Camping In The Time Of Covid

    Outdoors love and a global pandemic.  For my very first blog post I want to share with you something that I wrote from our first backcountry camping trip after being in lock down for nine months.  This website is a creation from my love of the outdoors and also partly a creation from the many lockdowns we experienced here in Canada during the height of the pandemic.  The perpetuation of fear on the boob tube and social isolation was really heavy during those months.  I spent many evenings dreaming of being outdoors or flying down to a warm sandy beach. As soon as the camping ban at Provincial Parks were lifted, my girlfriend,…