I'm off in the woods for a few days, so I leave you with this post from September 2008. Enjoy.

I just found this website--Weather Wiz Kids--with all sorts of great explanations and definitions of different types of weather. They also have a bunch of experiments related to weather and weather-monitoring.

In this experiment kids can make their own barometer. A barometer measures atmospheric pressure. The air in the atmosphere exerts pressure that constantly changes due to moving weather systems.

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I’ve been a little lax about posting lately. It is just that I am having so much fun this summer. I’ll be back to my old posting shenanigans soon—at least my mid-fall

Trail report

If you don’t have a stick, but you have all day—this activity is for you. You can use the sun and a stick to make a compass of sorts.

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I'm camping with my family and some friends in Glacier National Park this week. Instead of new posts (or no posts) I've decided to bring back a few of my favorites that you may not have read since they are a little older. Here's one from my "Camping Skills" series. We're camping with bears right now, so I thought I'd better review.

This is part of my "Camping Skills" series. Others posts in the series are listed at the bottom.

If you are camping or backpacking in bear country it is so important to make your food unavailable to hungry bruins. Not only is it a bummer for you if your food gets chowed down, but it is a bummer for the bear.

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I'm camping with my family and some friends in Glacier National Park this week. Instead of new posts (or no posts) I've decided to bring back a few of my favorites that you may not have read since they are a little older. This is one of the first posts I wrote when I started this site a couple years ago.

This post is the first in a series about using nature journals to enhance outdoor experiences. All other posts in the series are listed at the bottom.

To Thoreau’s eye a meadow was more then just undifferentiated green space, more than the green blur my college plant taxonomy Professor tried to clear up for us. It was specific plants and creatures whose forms, colors and habits he knew well.

Almost all great naturalists, writers and artists were most certainly journal keepers. Journals develop an observant eye and acute senses. Journals help deepen perception and focus attention. Journaling reminds us that we all lead lives worthy of observation.

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I'm camping with my family and some friends in Glacier National Park this week. Instead of new posts (or no posts) I've decided to bring back a few of my favorites that you may not have read since they are a little older. This guest post about the Junior Ranger program at National Parks seems especially appropriate.

Is your family planning on taking a trip to a National Park, Monument or Historic Site soon? Enhance your child’s experience by having them take part in the Junior Ranger program. Children receive an activity booklet at the visitor center (free of charge) with the instructions inside. They will complete some of the pages in their booklet that are based on the unique characteristics and problems facing the park today.

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Debi over at Go Explore Nature posted a summer bucket list--the things she wants to do this summer.

She inspired me to do the same. So, here are the things I'd like to do outdoors this summer.

* Camp with my family and friends in Glacier National Park
* Spend a few days in Yellowstone with a girlfriend
* Introduce my kids to s'mores
* Float the Yellowstone River with the kids
* Attend an outdoor music festival
* Star gaze
* Harvest lots and lots of food from my garden

What's on your summer bucket list?

Roy over at Camping Blogger posted about easy and satisfying dinners for the campsite. He inspired me to add a couple of my own.

I am planning our menu for a week-long camping trip to Glacier National Park later this month. Two of the dinners I have planned are below.

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