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Yearly Archives: 2015

This is an excerpt from my camp cookbook, “Camp Without Coolers or Stoves – Tasty Meals with Absolutely NO COOKING!”. The guidelines for eleven specific produce items is because those are the most common fresh produce ingredients in the cookbook. Tip # 1 – Keeping Foods Fresh Purchase fruits and […]

Keeping Produce Fresh, Camp WITHOUT Stoves

October 4, 2015 in Cookbook Excerpts / Food - Tips by Lacey Anderson

The 5-Day menu includes breakfast, lunch, and a themed multi-course dinner each day. Dinners start with happy hour where drinks and appetizers are served. Then the main entrée is served with salad and bread. Lastly, top the meal off with a delicious dessert. Use the 5-Day Menu in its entirety […]

5-Day Menu, Camp WITHOUT Stoves

September 26, 2015 in Cookbook Excerpts / Food - Menus by Administrator

“I’m a native of Tupen Grande. We have to face a problem caused by the company Odebrecht. It’s a mega-dam project which they are trying to do in the Maranon River Basin,” states Emer Chavez. “It will flood hundreds of square kilometers. Thousands of families will be displaced” continues Emer. […]

Serpent of Gold – Trailer II

September 21, 2015 in River - General / Uncategorized by Lacey Anderson

Check out the trailer to our documentary! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5q4gB5HZc Please give it a like or share from our facebook page, and share with any paddling/ environmental / social groups you might think will be interested. https://www.facebook.com/paddlingwithpurpose?ref=hl After all this time planning, fundraising, organizing and paddling it is awesome to see what […]

The Serpent of Gold – Trailer

September 7, 2015 in River - General / Uncategorized by Administrator

Ben Web the director of Paddling with Purpose did an interview and turned it into an article – he did a pretty good job of explaining what a fit and healthy female river runner of over 25 years can do, including first descents, read on: Lacey Anderson recounts a lifetime […]

PWP: River Gypsy Mama

August 10, 2015 in Published Articles / River - General by Lacey Anderson

Here is a 9-day menu that I put together for another Upper Amazon (Rio Marañon) river trip. I hope it inspires you. Check it out: B: Fresh Fruit, Peaches, Yogurt, Granola and Cereal, milk, energy bars L: Tuna Sandwich + PBJ/Nutella, Chips, cookies D: Appetizer: Guacamole & Corn Tortilla Chips […]

9-Day Menu, No Ice Needed!

July 10, 2015 in Food - Menus by Lacey Anderson

12-days of meals! Listed below is the partial menu from a 28-day Upper Amazon river expedition, June, 2015 (Rio Marañon). Keep reading to discover 12 days worth of camp food! Includes: breakfasts, lunches, appetizers, main dinner meals, salads, sides, and desserts. True, all this food was bought in Peru, but […]

12-Day Menu

June 10, 2015 in Food - Menus by Lacey Anderson

Deep in rural Guatemala, expedition rafter Lacey Anderson employs a whiteboard and the common language of rivers to bridge the communication divide and train a group of indigenous Mayans to be river guides. With a marker and small whiteboard in hand, I began illustrating hydrology to a group of Mayan […]

NRS: Mayan Guide School

May 10, 2015 in Published Articles / River - General by Lacey Anderson

Neil and I were about to embark on the first raft descent of the upper Rio Bavispe in northern Mexico, a tributary of the Rio Yaqui north of the infamous Copper Canyon. As far as we knew, the river had been run only once, by a solo kayaker. This is […]

NRS: Exploring Mexico´s Rio Bavispe

April 7, 2015 in Published Articles / River - First Descents / River - General by Lacey Anderson

Peru and Mexico are the destination countries for 2015! In May through July I will be in Peru running the Upper Amazon. In July I will return home to start preparing for river trips in Mexico. In August and September you will find Neil and I on rivers together; we […]

Join a River Trip!

March 15, 2015 in River - General / Uncategorized by Lacey Anderson

The 30 pounder on the SelwayNo, you don’t have to go on a diet, just downsize your raft or cataraft and frame! We own four 12.5 and 13 foot catarafts and here are the weights on the sets of tubes: 30, 38, 43, and 45 pounds for each set. These […]

New Year’s Resolution? Lose Weight!

January 4, 2015 in River - General / Uncategorized by Administrator