UPDATE: I ended up getting a 50ft string of LED worklights, and it was perfect. They look like this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71K55MC1ZDL.jpg

UPF fabric for the win. You can get quite stylish stuff now online (coolibar, bloquv, solbari, . It tends to be expensive but you can sometimes snag stuff on sale. You can also order UPF fabrics by the yard online - I've done that and made a couple of shrugs that cover my arms and chest, with thumbh...

Yep, the issue isn't noise traveling through the air. I actually brought sound cancelling Bose headphones (both earmuff style and in-ear) one year, and they didn't fix the fundamental issue, which is bass vibrations. I found both hard to sleep in (even the in-ear ones poked out enough that I couldn'...

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What's your methods for re-heating? Just put in a pot of water and heat on medium, well below boiling but still hot?
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Yep. The steamer basket also works.

We've got a kitchen for a 60 person camp. In the past we've used rope lighting for the kitchen but it's too dim, and it would be better to have task lighting over prep areas. What does your camp use? Thanks.

*Use silicone based lube, not oil. Oil attracts and traps dust and becomes sticky, silicone doesn't. What kind of lube? Like sexy-time silicone lube???? What's worked for you? [/quote] Yep, exactly. add the tiniest bit to your comb or work through your hair with your fingers. this is why I don't agr...

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The dust will turn all black surfaces a medium gray color within a day or two.

The single most useful mod I've found to a cooler (aside from elevating it off the ground, putting it in the shade, etc.) is wrapping it with a ratchet strap that is snugged down tight when not in use. It makes a big difference. Maybe your Yeti clone already had a tight enough top (especially if it ...

Prefreeze liter bottles of water (crack the tops so they don't explode), use them in your cooler to keep your fresh food cold. Drink as they melt. We actually have a 2 cooler system, where one cooler is full of dry ice. As water bottles thaw, we rotate them back into the dry ice cooler to reuse as i...

I do this for most of my hot meals. My favorite meal is pork scallopini over zoodles (zucchini noodles) with a white wine lemon butter caper sauce (easier to make than it sounds). Egg bites (mini frittatas you make in muffin tins) are great too. For anything wet, just seal one side of the bag to mak...

Hi, new person here. I've read that you can put the blue ice packs back into a cooler with dry ice and they will refreeze, would this work with soda bottles of water or is that too much mass? Rather than ice packs, consider using something edible. I've used capri suns for several years and they wor...

This is how we keep our coolers from every having water in them: Dry Bags and cereal dispensers. Dry bags are rollable bags of heavy duty clear plastic that white water rafters use to keep their stuff dry on the water. I have had ziplocs fail on me, drybags are better. The dry bags are great for blo...

I have long hair, been burning for 12 years, and this is what I have learned: *whenever you're going to wash dusty hair, rinse it first with either diluted conditioner or diluted vinegar, to loosen the dust. Then shampoo. Shampoo is terrible at removing alkaline dust, it's really more of a solvent f...

I have long hair, been burning for 12 years, and this is what I have learned: *whenever you're going to wash dusty hair, rinse it first with either diluted conditioner or diluted vinegar, to loosen the dust. Then shampoo. Shampoo is terrible at removing alkaline dust, it's really more of a solvent f...

Awesome advice, Token! Re; Shear walls - I am bolting the posts to the ship (U shaped deck post ties with flanges on either side), which is plenty heavy. I'm thinking that will act as shear walls, but if not, Should the ply shear walls you suggested be placed near the top, center or bottom of the po...

So I've built a 26' wooden pirate galleon for my camp and want to add a raised deck to the inside back of the ship. The deck will be 8' square and 6' off the ground. I have a general idea of how I'd do this to code in Defaultlandia, but would love advice about how other folks have built theirs for t...

For a fancy on-playa dinner party I premade dates stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in bacon ( I think they might be called 'devils on horeseback'). I slightly undercooked the bacon, vacuum-sealed and froze the completed hors d'oeuvres, and then on playa toasted these up in a hot pan for a minute...

Protip - if you'd like to vacuum-seal liquids, like soups, just freeze them first

[quote="EmilyD"] I will definitely document and report back BSG! Luckily someone in our camp volunteered to weld some 1/4" nuts onto the EMT so we could screw not only the thumb screws into the pipe but also an eye screw up top which we'll thread the LED string lights through (using a caribeener).[/...

This will be my 9th year and I'm tellin' ya: this is the BEST dust mask of all time. Comfy, washable, $29, great fit and filtering.
http://www.mu2sportsmask.com/

Hi Everyone! I've seen Figjam's very cool bucket swamp cooler design: http://burners.me/2012/07/30/figjam-how-to-make-a-bucket-cooler/ and was planing on building that. A friend then brought this to my attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtlxjvLQis&feature=youtu.be Which is a standard small ...

OR . . just use a solar panel as your power source

buy bread
open package at home
break into three ziplocks
store in cooler
open as needed

no problem.

I'm all inspired to sew up some stuff . . and avoid getting swarmed by freckles like I was last year. I'm so Irish I can't tan at gunpoint. Anyway I found they make fabrics now with built-in SPF (for fabric it's called UPF), so I thought I'd pass it along. If you're sewing, why not use fabric that i...

Hangovers are from dehydration. So drink a glass of water for every glass of booze - [b]while you're drinking[/b]. Or while you're doing something other than booze - you get the idea. It's not nearly as useful to do it the next day. If you wake up miserable drink water that has electrolytes in it, s...

Nope - duct tape won't stick to a tent that has ANY dust on it. Maybe if you did it before arriving. . .but I doubt it would stay and if it didn't - no back up.

I'm going to try the glue gun thing myself soon. If that doesn't work it's off to the sewing machine <<shudder>>.

No more glowsticks, I'm begging you! At the end of BM last year there were giant piles of those things just waiting to be carted to a landfill. They don't rot and they don't burn well. Buy a reusable light stick instead! Wallmart has a great one that has different colors and light patterns for under...

I have an extra cooler I bring that's 1/2 dry ice and 1/2 gel ice packs. You can also use those fruit punches that come sealed in foil bags that you punch into with a straw . . use them as ice packs, drink as the week goes on! Keep the dry ice cooler in the shade and wrapped up, open once each night...