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Your Outdoor Skills: Using Walking Sticks on the Trail and in Your Camp
Walking sticks are one of our favorite hiking and backpacking accessories. Their versatility comes in handy on the trail, helping you become a better hiker and reducing your risk of injury. Their use doesn’t end when you’re finished walking. At camp , we’ve used them to reach water to fill our water bag, provide shelter and even support our hammock when the trees are [...]
Your Outdoor Skills: Hammock Camping
You love laying in a hammock on a warm summer day, relaxing and swaying in the wind. Hammocks make the perfect camp accessory to lounge in after a long hike, bike ride, or climb. Before you know it, your hammock’s gentle swing has rocked you to sleep. You wake up realizing that you aren’t stiff and sore like you would [...]
Littlbug Junior Stove at Ray Mears Woodlore School of Wilderness Bushcraft
Keith Whitehead, Lead Bushcraft Instructor How do you know if a piece of kit is good? It’s a question that is often asked and simply answered: it’s good if you find yourself using and carrying it in preference to the other options. This decision is often unconscious and comes about if the item in question has shown [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part Six)
In this collection of posts I am presenting 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and showing how these considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. In this post I will discuss the complexity, Leave No Trace capability, available accessories, company values, [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part Five)
In this collection of posts I am presenting 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and showing how these considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. In this post I will compare the pot supports, wind and cold weather performance and the [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part Four)
In this collection of posts I am presenting 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and showing how these considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. In this post I will compare the weight, stability, boil time, size and accessibility of the fuel [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part Three)
In this collection of posts I am presenting 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and showing how these considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. In this post I will compare the packed size and shape of the Littlbug Junior, Solo Titan, [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part Two)
In this collection of posts I am presenting 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and showing how these considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. In this post I will compare the assembled size of the Littlbug Junior, Solo Titan, Emberlit FireAnt [...]
Comparing Wood Burning Backpacking Camp Stoves | What's Important and Why It Matters (Part One)
Over the next several posts, I will present 20 considerations that are important when choosing your wood burning backpacking camp stove and show how those considerations are dealt with in four different stove designs available on the market today. Getting ready to buy a stove and want to read the complete article now? Just send us [...]
Tales of Fire in the Belly: Hudson Bay Adventure
Don't miss the highlighted sections!In the summer of 2016, the four of us– Mark Heiman, Mike Heiman, Allison Heiman, and me, Laura Gundlach– all embarked on a huge adventure, canoeing from the Boundary Waters in Minnesota all the way to York Factory on Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, Canada. The trip ended up encompassing over 1200 miles and took 78 [...]
