My muscles are just starting to recover from this weekend’s backpacking trip to the Stratton Pond Shelter via the Stratton Pond Trail in Stratton, VT. Not that it was a difficult trail, I am just woefully out of shape. The weather was absolutely perfect for a winter snowshoe/backpacking trip. Temperatures during the day averaged in […]
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While not a large GIF or PNG, it is in itself an infographic, and one you can slice and dice at your leisure for use on the trail – and fun with kids as well, unless you are able to properly identify extremely fresh coyote or bear tracks…. Here it is! Click here to download […]
The last infographic I had dug up dealt with something that I do not often, or really, ever do – rock climbing. I stumbled upon this one, which hits closer to home… and I had to share (because I love my infographics)… here is one on The Basics of Hammock Camping, from HammockForums.net UPDATE 2/18/13: […]
Everyone likes free gear, right? Almost as good as free beer. Well, if you didn’t know, Backpacker Magazine has a weekly giveaway. Now, by the URL they have for it, you would think it expired a long time ago: http://www.backpacker.com/2010-gear-guide-gear-sweepstakes/articles/13771 See the “2010 Gear Guide Gear Giveaway” in there? Well, they just keep re-using it. […]
This GORP is not the trail mix kind, no… although a lot of folks think we are a bit nuts for the things we love (like backpacking in the freezing cold winter, to name an example…). This GORP is from the AMC and stands for Great Outdoors Resource Pack, and, as you may have guessed, […]
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