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Re’eh: Gratitude for Trail Magic

Brian Kresge
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Uncategorized, Wilderness Parsha

Re’eh: Gratitude for Trail Magic

For there will never cease to be hungry hikers on the trail. Every class of thru-hikers on any of our long trails comes with stories of how the “trail will …...

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Trail Recipes

Easy Camp Stove Salmon Patties

Ingredients (parve) 1 slice bread or 1 matzah 1/2 cup pretzels or Osem Gluten Free Pretzel Thins during Passover (Ochlei Kitniyot only) 1/2 tsp Mrs. Dash 1 egg equivalent Bob’s...

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Appalachian Trail, Wilderness Parsha

Matot-Masei: Promises

This parsha contains the most voluminous treatment of vows in Torah. In common parlance, we think of a vow (in the Hebrew, neder) as a commitment made using G-d’s name.  We …...

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Appalachian Trail, News

Conservation deal protects 10,000 acres in Western Maine

The Trust for Public Land, partnering with the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust and the U.S. Navy, announced that more than 10,000 acres along the Appalachian Trail in the mountains...

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Appalachian Trail, Featured, Wilderness Parsha

Daughters of Tzelafchad: Women’s Voice in the Wilderness

This week’s parsha is Pinchas, Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 There is a candidate for a state house race here in Maine, she’s what I’d call a “super...

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Featured, Hiking, News, Staff Picks

The Kosher Backpacker, The Wandering Jew

This is a modified version of the foreword that appears in my book, The Kosher Backpacker, as an introduction to this site. – Brian Kresge, aka “Strings Attached” I saw...

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Camping, Featured, News, On The Water

On Tranquil Waters: Debsconeag Lakes

After a test of my RAV4’s tires and suspension coming down a 4.5 mile stretch of rocks and pits, Amelia and I stood on the perhaps manufactured beach along the …...

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