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I was just flipping through the ALPS Mountaineering website and came across an extensive pack fitting guide that they put on the website for internal frames. If you are looking for information on how to fit a backpack or how to properly adjust/fit an internal frame pack, then you should check out these steps.
ALPS Mountaineering Internal Frame Pack Fitting
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The secret to making a good fire is to build it up gradually, beginning with small pieces of wood, then progressing to larger branches and logs as the fire gets going. Your wood should be graded into tinder, dry kindling, and lots of small sticks, large sticks, and logs. Get each size of wood burning well before adding larger pieces.
Tinder
You will need a ball of tinder at least the size of a grapefruit, buffed to its finest consistency. Tinder is the most important part of a fire, since you cannot start a fire by just lighting thick sticks…unless of course you use a manufactured firestarter that takes the place of tinder.
Once the tinder has begun to burn, you can add dry kindling in the form of small sticks and leaves. Make sure that the kindling is bone dry. The sticks should be about the thickness of a pencil.
Scrooge When the kindling is burning well, you can add sticks about the thickness of a finger. The sticks take the flames from initial stages to a fully burning fire.
Main Fuel
Large sticks act as the main fuel. They should be thicker than your finger, but easy to break into manageable pieces. You will use mainly this size fuel for your fire.
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Thick logs are for keeping an established fire going all night, or in a semi-permanent camp. Make sure that they are completely burned when you put out the fire or you use enough water to completely put them out.
When going out in the oods, you should never be without your most valuable and vital pieces of equipment. You should take great care to not lose or break them, since they can’t be replaced and may be crucial to your survival. Each of these items should be attached to a separate strong cord and be hung around your neck, available when you need it. Tuck the items inside your clothing when not in use to prevent from breaking them.
Consider these items your outdoor bling!
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Along the same lines as the post from the other day about setting up your own camping kit, you should also consider setting up your own survival kit. No wait, let me rephrase that – set up a survival kit. Obviously it does not need to be as extensive as this one that we will mention, but get what works for you and makes you feel like you are ready to survive in the wilderness if you need to. However, remember that there is no good way to test out what is in your survival gear unless you need to survive. That being said, maybe try taking your survival kit out one day and use only its contents to see how you do at night.
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In survival situations, a few key items can make the difference between living and dying. These important items should be carried in your pack at all times. Depending on the size of your kit, they could fit in a small dry box Dead and Gone the movie
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Bug psp A good collection of camping equipment is only created by trying different things and seeing what works best for you. After you come back from a trip, look through everything you took and separate your gear into two piles: stuff you used and stuff you did not use. Leave the “stuff you did not use” pile at home on your next trip. What you add and remove from the kit should be based on your experience from previous trips as well as the type of trip you have coming up. With that being said, here is a pretty good base list of items to take on your trips.
As you start to go on more trips and try out the different gear, you will quickly realize what you need and what you really should have left at home so you were not carrying the extra weight.
For a more detailed list, that lays out different clothing options and more, check out the post What To Pack For A Backpacking Trip What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? dvd Naked video .
What are the essentials that you take with you on a trip?
Breakin’ rip This is by no means a new thing to hit the scenes, but I have been reading a lot of posts, articles, and tweets about it lately. Urban backpacking is a type of traveling focusing on flexibility and low cost. Urban backpacking consists of backpacking around different cities, towns, or countries. This is accomplished by using a variety of different methods of travel including trains, busses, and hitchhiking. Urban backpackers then usually stay at hostels or low cost hotels while in an area seeing the city.
Over the next couple weeks, I am going to share some different tips for urban backpacking about what to pack, things to do, ways to travel, and finding places to stay. I know I usually focus on wilderness backpacking, and I will continue to do so, but I thought this would be a great route to take the posting for a couple times.
What do you think?
Are you an urban backpacker? If so, leave some comments about your experiences, links to your blogs or pictures, and the types of articles that you’d like to read. I’ll try to post about all topics suggested!
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Is your sleeping bag dirty or starting to smell? Here are a few tips for cleaning/washing your sleeping bag. Never dry clean your sleeping bag, down or synthetic. Hand washing is the recommended method though machine washing works well (in a front loader only). As for soaps, any liquid detergent will do. Powdered detergents are okay if you can get them to dissolve thoroughly.
Here are a couple rules:
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Another thing you can do when drying your sleeping bag is to add in some tennis balls to the dryer. This will help fluff the bag .
I was just over at Backpacker.com taking a look around and found this great reader tip about how you can make your own backcountry cutting board.
Michael Irvine from Santa Rosa, CA shares the tip:
To make a backpack-friendly cutting board, I trimmed plastic cutting boards from Target into small circles that fit snugly inside my cook pots. These lightweight discs keep my knives from dulling–and provide a hygienic place to store ingredients while I cook. Fame release
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One of the follow up comments from a visitor to the site even suggested cutting a notch or putting a hole in the board towards the edge to help with getting the board out of the bottom of the pot if it gets stuck or suctioned in from washing it. Great tips!
When traveling or being outdoors, it is important to carry a first aid kit with you no matter what type of activity you are doing (camping, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, biking, anything). Many first aid kits will just be a few simple items that are good for any activity. However, it is important to have an in depth kit that will allow you to face most emergencies and challenges that you come across.
The only way to be fully prepared for the trip that you are taking would be to buy a sport specific first aid kit or to create your own. The American Red Cross has a good list of general supplies that should be in any first aid kit, including:
- 2 packets of aspirin (81 mg each)
- 1 blanket (space blanket)
- 1 breathing barrier (with one-way valve)
- 1 instant cold compress
- 2 pair of non-latex gloves (size: large)
- 2 hydrocortisone ointment packets (approximately 1 gram each)
- Scissors
- 1 roller bandage (3 inches wide)
- 1 roller bandage (4 inches wide)
- 5 sterile gauze pads (3 x 3 inches)
- 5 sterile gauze pads (4 x 4 inches)
- Oral thermometer (non-mercury/non-glass)
- 2 triangular bandages
- Tweezers
- First aid instruction booklet
However, if you are looking to create your own, there is a great website that sells the different items you would want to include and you are able to pick and choose rather than buying just a standardized kit. The Emergency Essentials House of Usher hd website allows you to select only the items that you want in your kit and purchase. You can see this great order page here
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WoodsMonkey has a great article about the Grandpa’s FireForks from Light My Fire. I have sold many of these and have more on the way and believe they are great items. Look for them to be in the TheGearHouse store soon (which will also be getting a MAJOR revamp).
Heres the article from WoodsMokey:
Cooking food directly over the flames is a practice that goes back as far as man has had fire, and the basic practice still hasn’t changed all that much. Take a look around any campground that you happen to be near and you’ll find folks roasting hotdogs and marshmallows on pointed sticks right over the fire. It simple, it works, and it’s fun for the kids to both cook that way and to make their sticks ahead of time. However, it isn’t always the most efficient way to do things. It’s not uncommon to lose your food into the fire with the old single prong pointed stick. Multi prong sticks work a little better and you can find metal two tined fire forks at most camping stores. The problem with those is either that the big ones are too long and bulky to take on anything but a car camping trip, and the smaller are generally all metal including the handle portion. They also tend to be rather short and quickly heat up since you have to be closer to the fire–not to mention the fact that the metal transfers the heat to your hands much more than it will with a wooden stick. Enter Light My Fire and their Grandpa’s FireForks.
