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- How many briquets for a Dutch oven recipe?
- Campfire Trout
- Anything goes (in) stir fry
- Premade ribs and chicken
- Easy Dutch-oven dinner
- Dutch Oven Yogurt Chocolate Cake recipe
- Pork and stuffing
- Brookies and bacon
- Pineapple Tapioca
- Dutch Oven Peach Upside Down Cake
- Marias Cherry Fudge Cake
- Hurried hash browns
- Smoked Salmon Pasta
- Annies Fried Seaweed and Soba
- Chilled Sesame Linguine
- Black bean burritos
Tips
Recipes
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- Public Lands Campgrounds
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Camping Guide
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Cheesy Dutch Oven Chicken Breasts
Light about 24 charcoal briquets. Wipe olive oil throughout the Dutch oven.
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Try these tips to keep your camping trip comfy yet affordable
When I was growing up, our family had three kinds of vacations: camping, visiting relatives, and hunting, which was essentially camping with guns.
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Holiday weekend advice: Stay low
If you're thinking about hiking or camping in the mountains for the Memorial Day weekend, think low, as in low elevation.
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Spring Bar Campground
The Salmon River has year-round camping, and Spring Bar is one of a few developed camping areas upstream from Riggins.
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Cove Recreation Site
This is a popular camping area on C.J. Strike Reservoir, which offers good early and late-season camping, but gets pretty hot in the summer. The campground is thoughtfully designed to give everyone access to the reservoir or a good view of it. Cabanas at the campsites provide shade and wind blocks...
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Wood River Campground
The Wood River Campground north of Ketchum is a woodsy campground along a mountain stream.
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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Visitors can marvel at the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve's three major lava fields, 250,000 acres of rugged grasslands and more than 600 square miles of basaltic lava fields.
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Premade ribs and chicken
I am constantly experimenting with different meals for outdoor trips, trying to make hearty meals without hassle.




