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The Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher “The art of using gadgets”

The Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher “The art of using gadgets”

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TweetTrailblazing backpacker Colin Fletcher (1922 – 2007) carried his home on his back through decades of wildlands journeys and throughout the ascendancy of modern technological solutions for living on the trail. He bushwhacked new territory and left ample sign for others to follow, all detailed in The Complete Walker IV (Alfred A. Knopf 2002). Fletcher tested myriad methods and outdoor gear solutions throughout the second half of the 20th Century, detailing their utility first in 1968, and then again and…

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Glow cord, visual signaling day and night

Glow cord, visual signaling day and night

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TweetHave you ever lost camp tools in the bottomless night of a moonless, moist Midwestern woodland?–find them with glow cord lanyards. Tools dropped into deep taiga snow pack?–spot them easily using glow cord snow flags. Tripping over your own tent guy lines at night in your local state park?–see your glow cord guy lines every time. Trouble returning to your wilderness stealth campsite after dark?–find it quickly by stringing a glow cord streamer high over a branch limb, and leave…

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Who needs a winter road kit?

Who needs a winter road kit?

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TweetA convoluted story of climate change, melting arctic sea ice, a deranged polar vortex, unexpected Midwestern snowstorms and complacent Midwestern drivers is captured in a single Kentucky highway image and the many stories of stranded motorists going nowhere for a while. Some had been stranded in their cold vehicles for eighteen hours by mid-afternoon March 5, 2015, National Guardsmen on their way. They will help priority cases, first. Others will wait and wait, gasoline going, going, gone, chill compounding. Ask…

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Legendary heavy metal, the Becker BK-2 Campanion knife

Legendary heavy metal, the Becker BK-2 Campanion knife

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TweetTesting utility and durability of the Becker BK-2. Is the BK-2 a good choice for a wilderness survival knife? The Becker BK-2 Campanion knife manufactured by KA-BAR® is one of blade designer Ethan Becker’s earliest big successes in more ways than one. The BK-2 is a big horse of a knife and it has long been a big seller. In the hands of a skilled outdoorsman, it’s a heavy weight performer for woodcraft–like a big draft horse in the reins…

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