A set of waterproof matches is always a good way to go, but Sleeping In Tents provides four easy ways to start a fire without matches that are easy to pull off. They describe using: 1. Magnifying Glass 2. Steel and Flint 3. Steel Wool and a 9-Volt Battery 4. Fire Plough
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11th Annual Winter Campers Symposium, Loretto, MN – October 23-25. Includes workshops, presentations and a film festival. Notable speakers and presenters from major equipment manufacturers (Snowtrekker, Empire). Snowwalkers Rendezvous, Fairlee, Vermont – November 13-15. Includes workshops, presentations and films – notable speakers include Garret and Alexandra Conover, first nations representatives from northern Quebec and Labrador [...] Mark’s three season tent was put to the test as snow fell at Peaked Mountain. It worked just fine….. Ian feels like the King of World as he strikes a pose. Trail blazes look different depending on where you hike. Sometimes, they’re painted on trees and sometimes they’re little plastic disks. Sometimes they’re painted on rocks and sometimes they’re plastic rectangles nailed to trees. SectionHiker is running a Trail Blaze Photo Contest looking for trail blazes from different parts of the world. WinterCampers.com submitted pictures from [...] Matt, Len, Ian, Sparky, Mark & Rob display extreme caution crossing the ice covered John Pond. The eleventh annual Winter Camping Symposium will be held the weekend of October 23-25th. Traditionally located in Ely or central Wisconsin, this year the event is taking place just 21 miles west of Minneapolis at the historic YMCA Camp Ihduhapi. Participants are welcome to stop for a few hours and attend a couple presentations or [...] The Outdoor Federation recently released the results of its survey on camping participation in the US and discovered an annual increase in camping in 2008 over 2007: 7.4% in the US. The report found that 33.7 million Americans went camping in 2008 and each camper spent an average of 14 days in the great outdoors. [...] Mark is a white pine tree lover, especially some of the large trees see at Pine Plantation. Sometimes his relationship is a little more casual. Or maybe this one is a boy? [...] |
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