
Backpacking: Get wet
No, not like that you degenerates, foul weather. Now that you’ve finally left your house and are out backpacking, camping, hiking etc you will need to consider foul weather or…

Food for Thought: Terrain Consideration
Know your area.The lower or inland regions of California are mostly hills covered in low grass and scrub brush and dry, rocky desert effectively. Very wide open affairs most of…

Alps Mountaineering “Swift Insulated” Air Mat Review
After last years less that ideal experience with the Kylmit Static V air mattress I decided to try to out the Alps Mountaineering “Swift Insulated” air mat. I have not…

Brunton Backcountry Use Quick Reference Navigation Cards
A fundamental FieldCraft skill is using a map and compass. You don’t need an internet connection to have the piece of mind of information at your fingertips. As experts in…

How To Skin A Squirrel
Since we are all going to be on the verge of starving soon, I thought it would be a good time to bring back this article from the Groove-yard of…


Repost: Backpacking: Get Packing
Finally the part all my fellow geardos have been waiting for, the gear.Since we settled on a three day trip in the mountains last time we’ll structure around that. Below…

Repost: Backpacking: Let’s Get Started
PlanningBefore any trip you will need to analyze the area and start planning. For this exercise I am going to use the mountains as the main example and just have…

Repost: So You Think You Can Camp?
Found some of the articles from the old site on “The Wayback Machine” so thought I would repost them. What kind of outdoorsman are you? A lot of us fancy…

Tangle Gut
It doesn’t sound tasty from the name but it is. It’s that time of year again. In the spring tangle gut grows. There isn’t much of a window to find…
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