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Month: June 2015

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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Getting to the bottom of trail mix packaging

Getting to the bottom of trail mix packaging

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TweetI mix my own GORP (Good Old Raisins and Peanuts). Not so much for cost savings as for content control; less salt, less sugar, more nut meat, less cheap filler. My winter trail mix includes much more than raisins and peanuts. I include six kinds of nuts & seeds, dried apricot pieces, dried blueberries, raisins, and one cheat sweet, the raisins are yogurt dipped. I always make more trail mix than I need for upcoming outings because I buy consumer…

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Regular Carry common sense, a cure for EDC

Regular Carry common sense, a cure for EDC

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TweetThe popular acronym “EDC” (Every Day Carry) is burdened with too much baggage, these days. At Outdoor Readiness, we are likely to use “EDC” only when characterizing a favorite folding knife. We use the terms “Regular Carry”, “Casual Carry”, and “Kit Carry” when characterizing when and if we carry this or that tool, gadget, gizmo, or article of clothing. An epidemic of acronyms gone viral has infected outdoor jargon during the present Tactical Age. “EDC” has proved particularly contagious. “EDC”…

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