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Choosing a sleeping bag is the decision that determines whether you actually sleep on camping trips or lie…
Fly fishing has a reputation for being expensive, technical, and intimidating to learn. The reputation isn’t entirely fair,…
Stopping to dig a water bottle out of a frame cage breaks rhythm on a technical trail, and…
To store food at a campsite, keep every scrap of food, all trash, and anything scented out of…
To field dress a deer, open the body cavity from sternum to pelvis, free the windpipe and the…
Deer are most active in the dim light around dawn and dusk, with a second wave of feeding…
To launch and land a kayak, keep the hull parallel to shore, straddle the cockpit, brace with the…
To get back in a kayak after flipping, right the hull, kick hard to slide your chest onto…
Choose a campsite by finding flat, durable ground that sits slightly above its surroundings, clear of dead limbs…
Base weight is the total weight of everything in a backpack except food, water, and fuel, measured before…
Weather almost always announces itself before it arrives, and the clues sit in the clouds, the wind, and…
Start on easy, well-marked trails, run by effort instead of pace, and walk the steep sections without calling…
Wash a sleeping bag in a front loading machine or a bathtub, using cold water, a fill-specific cleaner,…
