Adventures
Boat Camping: Thrills of A Kayak Adventure
Is there any better way to see, smell and feel nature up close than from a kayak or a canoe? These simple vessels can take you to hidden coves, tidal salt marshes, or along rocky shores - places that larger motorized craft can’t go.
Bushwhacking - Making Your Own Trails
According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwhack - Bushwhacking: a North American term for hikers and cross-country skiers who make their own trails. I don’t agree with “creating new trails” by Wikipedia. Generally when I use the term bushwhacking is when I’m navigating a difficult terrain.
Hiking Adventures: Steady Rhythm and Pace
The easiest and most enjoyable way to hike is to establish a rhythm and pace that feels comfortable and can be sustained for long periods. Short burst of rapid hiking interspersed with long rests while you get your breath back are more tiring that a slower, steady pace. If you can’t talk comfortably, you’re going too fast.
Recipes
Hiking Food: Energy-Boosting Tips When On The Trail
Normal meal times can be abandoned in the backcountry. You should eat when you’re hungry, which is likely to be often. Lunch may start soon after breakfast and go on until dinner. If you’re starting to feel hungry, stop and eat something.
Camping Meals: Easy 3 Meal Ideas To Follow
The following is an example of what I usually eat on backpacking trips, long and short, summer and winter. I’m not proclaiming this is an ideal diet, but the food is lightweight and easy to prepare.
Winter Camping Meals
We usually think of calories as units of food (or fat), but in reality calories are units of heat. This takes on a different meaning in winter camping, when you use up something like twice as many calories as you do in day to day indoor life. Simply maintaining your body temperature when you’re asleep in the cold takes more calories.
First Aid and Safety
Sunburn Skin During Your Adventure Hike - Prevention is Better Than Cure
The best protection against sunburn is prevention! Follow some simple tips to ensure that you are “sun smart” and not “sun foolish”. Your hiking adventure will be a lot more fun without sunburn damage.
Feet Blisters When Hiking: Prevention and Treatment
If you commonly get blisters, you can tape those places in advance to reduce the chance of blisters occurring. In the long run through, you probably need better fitting footwear.
Hypothermia Symptoms and Treatment for Hypothermia
Hypothermia (commonly called “exposure sickness”) is the most common and dangerous of outdoor ailments. No one is immune to its icy grip. Hypothermia occurs when body temperature drops below about 95 degrees Fahrenheit. As blood is rushed to the vital organs, chilling spreads throughout the body. This is accompanied by clumsiness, slurred speech, and loss of judgement.
Tips and Strategies
How To Start A Fire: 3 Proven Tips You Must Try!
Starting a fire is one of the most useful skills you should have to ensure you can impress the ladies. Just kidding. :P But following these tips will make sure your fire is up and ready before you know it!
Camping Mattress: 4 Ways To Keep You Comfortable
A mattress will smooth the way for old bones and warm your backside when you sleep on cold ground. There are 4 basic types of trail camping mattresses.
Camping Stoves: 11 Rules For Safe Stove Use
You should be familiar enough with your stove before a trip that you can operate it safely when tire, in a storm, and in the dark. Always use these guidelines for safe stove use.
Footwear
How To Repair Boots
The most common boot breakdown is when two boot parts formerly joined split asunder. Blown stitching is one example - maybe in the welling that joins boot to to sole, or the stitching that joins fabric to leather - and an argument for buying boots with the fewest seams possible.
Best Hiking Boots - How To Pick Them
There is a funny thing about hiking boots. Every aspect of their design is intended to protect your feet, yet boots actually cause more foot problems than anything else!
How To Break In New Boots
Just bought a new pair of boots? Why not break in those new boots using another method?
Essential Tools
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When weight, compressibility and warmth are factors, zip into The North Face Aconcagua Down Jacket for Men for low-bulk insulation.
Rolling Duffel Bags For Your Overseas Hike
With all of their straps and buckles, backpacks practically beg to be abused by baggage handlers. A duffel bag can thwart both theives and the thugs who use your luggage as a punching bag.
Trekking Hiking Poles: 4 Legs Are Better Than 2
How many times have you wished that you had a better sense of balance, or more strength in your knees? A hiking stick might be the most useful and helpful piece of “extra” gear you carry.
