Times are tough, I know. When a worthwhile cause comes across my desk I try and pony up.
Every year the girls in my family get together to walk in Denver’s “Race for the Cure”. I think it’s high time the men of the Paulsen family back something just as worthwhile.
Chris is a Jeepin buddy of mine. While I don’t know his background with this disease I think it a pretty worth while cause. He has dedicated his time to race. Let’s back him up.
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Check out this way cool sleeping bag concept from Lippi.
It’s ideal for summer festivals, a comfortable option for couch potatoes and a fantastic choice for everyday camping.
Lippi Selk’Bag1 Characteristics:
Total Weight: 1950 GSM.
Filling: Polyester Hollow Fibre Bonded, 1X200g/sqm, Good Performance, Elastic.
Shel / Lining: Nylon 210T / 70 Deniers, Soft Touch.
Extreme Temp: -8.4 Degrees Celcius*
Limit Temp: +5.5 Degrees Celcius*
Comfort Temp: +9.7 Degrees Celcius*
Sizes: Small / Medium
Large / Extra Large* As tested by European EN 13537 standard (EU NORM)
Extreme: Lower extreme temperature where the risk of health damage by hypothermia occurs not feeling cold (related to standard man and in standard conditions of use).
Limit: Lower limit of which a sleeping bag user with a rolled-up body posture is globally in thermal equilibrium and just not feeling cold (related to standard man and in standard conditions of use).
Comfort: Lower limit of the comfort range down to which a sleeping bag user with a relaxed posture such as lying on the back is globally in equilibrium an just not feeling cold (related to standard woman and in standard condition of use).
Rub a couple of cotton balls in Vaseline, then store them with some flint and steel. LifeHacker says this makes a great fire starter.
Popular Mechanics says that a cotton ball smeared with Vaseline or ChapStick is “a foolproof fire starter.” The Vaseline works as your fuel, and once you get the Vaseline-soaked cotton ball lit, the flame should continue to burn under pretty much any condition. The Popular Mechanics article is rather light on details, so I also found a post on the Survival and Equipment weblog detailing how to make single-use petroleum jelly candles using cotton balls, petroleum jelly, and aluminum foil. You will, of course, still need a flint or match to get the cotton ball started
The Grogono Family in Scotland thinks knot tying is very important. So do I. “Animated Knots by Grog” is a wonderful site showing you how to tie every knot known to man. This site took some work. Each image looks to be a still photo, stitched(punn) together with HTML. The site also offers the knot tying instructions on a DVD for sale.
Whether you a Scout Master, boater or just a camper that uses a lot of knots this is a great bookmark.
Here are just a few of the recipes in this unique book:
Excellent read. A must for any car camper!
With GPS and all the high end gadgets most of use, the art of compass reading may have been forgotten.
Not in my house. My oldest boy asked me a few months ago what a compass was. I pull one out of the closet and gave it to him. I asked him to figure out which way was east. At eight years old and never seeing a compass before that was an almost and impossible task. After trying for a few moments, and just before he was going to give up I helped him.
Do you think you need some help reading compass? Here is a well written article on how to do it. The article also touches on a little know way of turning your wrist watch into a compass. That’s assuming you still were a wrist watch. 
No everyone the forum is still up. Active as ever, if you can call it active. 
I just wanted to start blogging about camping. I also wanted to post up some product reviews and this format works great for that.
Do you have a knack for writing? Want to review a product you recently tried? Let me know I would love to get a few more writers for the new front page. The site is using Wordpress so having some familiarity with that would be great. If your not familiar, but have a interest, let me know I can give you some links to help you get up to speed.
“World’s largest hiking Trail Database. Search or browse! Add your own hiking page.
Current size of Trail Database: search keys 2319, URLs 2840, records 8013″Born in 1997, not many sites can say that. Search every continent. Sweet find. I’ll be hard linking this later in the forum.
Bored? Time to kill? some Bent-wood lying around? Build a Yurt.
A friend of mine was taking his boys camping. He was looking at a state campground that offered Yurt rentals. I had no idea what a Yurt was. I mean I have heard of them before but didn’t know their origin. While searching for that info I found a place that sells instructions on how to build your own.
- To keep marshmallows from sticking together, add a little powdered sugar to the bag.
- Disposable water bottles make great dispensers for salad dressings, oils and sauces.
Nice list of simple food tips while camping. Click the link below to see the full list.