Outdoor Adventure News
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July 2008 archive
DIY Outdoor Gear
Found an awesome little site with a bunch of do-it-yourself projects, focusing on gear for camping and other outdoorsy pursuits. My favourite two (at least, the two that I'll be most likely to try soon) are: a mesh bag to hold your ropes. simple, cheap containers for all those powdery ...
Outdoor News: Good Reading This Weekend
This edition: Explorers Club, Machu Pichu and a 120-mile canoe marathon. What’s the Explorers Club? Ask Tenzing Norgay, Sally Ride, Thor Heyerdahl and Charles Lindbergh. The trek to Machu Pichu takes up and down in the Andes, over 4,200 metre passes, over the course of four days. You’ll be glad ...
Starting a Fire in the Rain
It's raining again. Could you survive in the wet and wild if you needed to? Conveniently, here's a post from Mungo Says Bah, with his instructions on how to start a fire in the rain. Though the general principles may seem obvious (use dry things if you can find them, ...
Sunscreens Cause Cancer
80% of sunscreens suck, according to science A research group in Washington, DC -- The Environmental Working Group (EWG) – just released a study indicating that “4 out of 5 of the nearly 1,000 sunscreen lotions analyzed offer inadequate protection from the sun or contain harmful chemicals,” according to a ...