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CAMP WITHOUT COOLERS ~ Kick the Cooler Habit!

Lacey Anderson

A Floater’s Guide to the Rivers of the Yaqui Watershed; Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico is the title to the new guidebook. Here is an Excerpt: Just south of the US/Mexico border (Arizona) lies an expansive and impressive watershed that offers a variety of rivers to be run – the watershed […]

Northern Mexico River Guidebook

January 6, 2016 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

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 Food - Tips by Lacey Anderson

“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 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 / Food Packs 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 / Food Packs 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 River - General / River - Published Articles 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 River - First Descents / River - General / River - Published Articles 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 by Lacey Anderson

Do you ever dream of doing an international boating expedition? Say in Guatemala, Nepal, Mexico, or Peru? Stop dreaming and join me in 2015! See the new Facebook group for information on upcoming river adventures! The FB group is called “Womens Water Expeditions”. I just completed running some rivers in […]

Seriously, Do It In 2015!

December 31, 2014 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

No Coolers Food Packs – Example

October 12, 2014 in Food - Ingredients / Recipes / Food - Menus / Food Packs / Food - Tips / Food - Video by Lacey Anderson

“Thank you for expressing an interest in the Women´s Peru Expedition happening in 2015, this is the 1st update.” So began my letter to interested participants in an all-women river expedition planned for 2015. I was about to take-off to Peru for my second trip down the Rio Marañon (the […]

Really? All-women trip on the Amazon!

July 31, 2014 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

Here is a portion of my menu for a 29 day river trip in Peru set to begin on June 4th, 2014. I am responsible for feeding a group of 19 hungry boaters breakfast, lunch, and dinner for at least 8 days. True, the majority of the food will be […]

8-Day Menu

June 1, 2014 in Food - Menus / Food Packs by Lacey Anderson

This is how I packed all my whitewater catarafting equipment for a month long expedition on the Rio Marañon in Peru. I did this excursion in 2013. It was really surprising to me how well the packing and transportation of all this equipment onto an airplane went! It was […]

Everything Fit Within the Airlines Weight Limits!

May 1, 2014 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

When the angry mob in the highlands of Guatemala got out ropes, gasoline, and then made the hand gesture of slicing necks, I did not have to speak Mayan to understand what they had in store for us. I came to the shocking realization that this could truly be my […]

NRS: Fun was the Point, Enlightenment was the Result

March 30, 2014 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

Is Peru’s Rio Marañon really another Grand Canyon? I had to go see for myself. This is what I learned. My expectations for a trip down the Rio Marañon, through the so-called Grand Canyon of the Amazon, were high. Could there really be another river as amazing as the Colorado through […]

NRS: Peru´s Rio Maranon. Is it Another Grand Canyon?

January 25, 2014 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

Healthy fear is part of boating smart, but sometimes fear can cloud our judgment. In this article I recount one such time on Mexico’s Rio Sirupa. The monsoonal rain would not stop and the river kept rising. A feeling of dread was overtaking me. Cascada Sirupa loomed only a few […]

NRS: Cascada! Fear and Dread on the Rio Sirupa – ...

December 9, 2013 in River - First Descents / River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

I peeled down to my bikini and slid into the hottest pool at sunflower hot springs on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. One of the clients (he, still fully clothed) looked down at me and staring incredulously, commented, “You’re not normal!” His comment struck my funny […]

NRS: Expedition to the “Grand Canyon of the Amazon”

October 15, 2013 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

Make Romaine Lettuce Last Longer

September 12, 2013 in Food - Tips / Food - Video by Lacey Anderson

It was a hot tropical fall evening in Tlapa de Comonfort, Mexico. I found myself tossing and turning on yet another lumpy Mexican mattress. I was finally slipping into a fitful sleep when I was awakened by the sounds of soft clicking and saw an unearthly blue hue of light […]

NRS: “Exploration by Raft”

September 1, 2013 in River - First Descents / River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

Maps, Maps, and more Maps! Don’t forget to study those graphs too! What kind of maps and graphs? topographical maps, road maps, GPS maps, Google Earth, hydrology graphs, climate and precipitation graphs. Why all this map madness? We are about to embark on another major river adventure in Mexico. I […]

Map Madness

July 30, 2013 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

“Undercover – Exposing Our Sports Covert Heroes” is the cover title for the article in the May 2013 print issue of the magazine Canoe & Kayak. This last winter while I was recouperating between working river trips in Chiapas Mexico I got a call from the editor of the magazine Canoe & […]

CANOE & KAYAK: “Exposed” (Lacey Anderson Profile)

May 3, 2013 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

It was the end of the world, according to the Mayan calendar and I found myself once again in the land of the Maya; preparing to row a gear boat for an exploratory commercial descent of the Rio Lacanja. My love of boating in southern Mexico started in late 1990’s […]

NRS: “Rafting Mexico’s Rio Lacanja”

April 24, 2013 in River - General / River - Published Articles by Lacey Anderson

Newest Cookbook Now Available as an E-book for Kindle or download the FREE Kindle Reading App and read on your computer, smartphone, tablet, etc. Camp cooking expert Lacey Anderson, author of Camp Cooking WITHOUT Coolers II, presents her latest book on camp cooking – without the cooking! Packed with over 40 […]

Newest Cookbook Now Available

April 8, 2013 in Food - Tips by Lacey Anderson

It’s been 10 years, let’s do it again! Doug Rhodes of Pariso Del Oso and I organized the first commercial descent of the Urique river in Copper Canyon, Mexico. After the adventure Doug wrote the following article. I am thinking about running this river again in 2013. After reading this account from 2002, […]

Rio Urique, Copper Canyon Mexico – First Commercial Descent

March 15, 2013 in River - First Descents / River - General by Lacey Anderson

In 2009 I was laid off from my teaching job for the last time! I said goodbye to that old career and did not look back. Instead of seeking another teaching job I returned to a lifestyle I love. Basically, I moved into my trusty 4×4 Toyota Tundra and hit the road. To pursue a life once […]

Sweet Obsession

February 5, 2013 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

Fresh, Fresh, Fresh! and local grown! Chilies, peppers of all variety, limes, mangoes, papayas, oranges, cantaloupe. The gourmet cook will love the amazing variety of spices and frijoles. A nina bonita selling her families produce direct from the family farm. And my favorite – mangoes – they are in season in the winter. A vendor […]

Mexico Mercado

January 1, 2013 in Food - Ingredients / Recipes / Food - Tips by Lacey Anderson

I started out a winter guiding season on the amazing travertine drops of the Lacanja river in southern Mexico. Thank you Rocky Contos ( SierraRios) for giving me the amazing opportunity of working a few more trips for yet another year. This waterfall jungle run on rio Lacanja was the perfect opportunity for contribution of my light-weight, low-bulk nocoolers […]

“Wild Crazy Mexican Jungle!”

December 25, 2012 in River - General by Lacey Anderson

Support Our Conservation Efforts

October 10, 2012 in River - General by Lacey Anderson