Kamp Fire

Twelve campers, one fire, zero leftovers. Best group potluck yet — foil-pack fajitas won by a landslide.

Six months of vanlife in: the answer to "but where do you shower?" is "creatively."

Trail snacks, ranked: 1) anything eaten above 3,000 ft. That's it. That's the list.

Route 89 through the Sierra in early October — who's driven it? Debating whether the larch color is worth the early-snow gamble.

New sleeping bag passed its first frost test at 9,000 ft. Toes: intact. Morale: high.

PSA: the best campsite coffee is the one somebody else gets up to make.