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<\/a>One of our simpler creations.<\/p><\/div>\n
Lighting the stoves proved trickier than expected. Now imagine typical Icelandic weather: driving rain and 30-miles-an-hour winds. We better practice some more … In the end a bunch of very critical tasters agreed that team Lupine’s Cashew Beef Curry won first prize. Cameron’s recipe of salt with tasty salty bits and a bit of salt won first prize for nutritious content: it came out to have about 6000 mg of salt per serving. Better hold off on those bullion cubes, Cam!<\/p>\n Tough judges!<\/p><\/div>\n Looks good to me, what do you think?<\/p><\/div>\n Groups practiced setting up tents and checked whether all our tents were complete. Luckily, most of them were.<\/p>\n So, how many of these do we need?<\/p><\/div>\n Jon explaining some of the finer points of tent setup.<\/p><\/div>\n Given the fact that many students had been with us to Utah last year Jon had surprisingly little to do and all the tents went up in no time.<\/p>\n Four happy campers.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Iceland field-trip crew has been busy preparing for our upcoming trip. Two weeks ago we had a camp stove cook-off. Students came up with recipes, bought the ingredients and cooked everything on the camp stoves. Lighting the stoves proved … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>The following week we set up tents. The weather was again very Icelandic: in the low forties and some sprinkles of rain.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>