KARLA "WITH A K"

Name: Karla "with a k"
Address: Milwaukee, WI, US

By day Karla "with a K" is a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant
She STARTED camping at age 40, when her good friend introduced her to tent camping.
Since January 2016, Karla has camped at least one night a month - Going on eight years now.
She started hammock camping exclusively in April 2016 when she attended her first hammock hang and was able to sleep in a borrowed hammock system during a winter storm and was warm at only 19 degrees.
She has hosted over 30 non-commercial group camping weekends.
In 2017, she started camping with her cat, Kizme (Kiz-mah). It's the Serbian word for "boots" because he has white boots on all paws. And in 2022 she added a second cat named Krasa (Kressa), the Ukrainian word for "beauty".
Since 2000, she took over as Lead Organizer of the Meetup group: Milwaukee Area Hiking, Biking, Paddling, Plus
Karla wants to camp in every state park in Wisconsin. Her favorite is Wisconsin Interstate State Park in St. Croix Falls, WI.
Her overnight low is -11 degrees & her overnight high is 72 degrees.
She has yet to camp in: a teepee and an RV. She has already cowboy camped, built and slept in a quinzee, camped in her two-door Honda Civic, solo camped, slept in a cabin with 10 strangers, has backpacked, has camped while road tripping, and snowshoed a mile to camp in a yurt.
Her favorite camp foods are anything in a pie iron, dutch oven, and woofums. She also makes and sells woofums sticks.
She collects a patch from every park she has visited and wears them on her red wool vintage Valeninto cape.
She is the founding member of the Red Bra Club and the Bad Ass Woman Award.
You can shop on Karla's Mary Kay website here: Shop Here
You can follow her on Instagram: Click Here
You can also listen to episode #37 of The Hammock Hangers Podcast. Click Here to hear her story.

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