Category: Outdoors
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Hiking Safety Tips – Planning Before You Leave The House
We talk a lot about what to do to survive in the woods in an emergency, but we don’t address the things we can do before we leave the house to be safe or get search & rescue to us faster.
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Castle Frederick Farms Hiking Trails
From the Nova Scotia Hiking Trail Guide Guide category: Historical Trails Length: 4 km (return) Difficulty: 2C Duration: 2 hours Book trailhead: N44 56.238 W64 13.064 Litter ReceptaclePets on leash / Dog friendlyStay on trailTrailheadSnow-shoeingTransit accessParking Network of walking trails within a woodlot, containing archeological artifacts. These trails encompass a number of loops within Castle…
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Garmin inReach Explorer – Calibrating Compass & Altimeter
We go over the steps to calibrate the Delorme inReach Explorer electronic compass and altimeter. The Delorme inReach Explorer contains an electronic compass and barometric altimeter. To calibrate both items, go to the SETTINGS page and scroll down to COMPASS & ALTIMETER From here you can calibrate the compass & altimeter.
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Heart Rate Training 101
This will be updated with the latest information as the training plans have been tweaked since I last wrote this article. How I Got Into Heart Rate Training I've been using HR training while running for six years and been giving brief info talks on the subject to the running club. As a training tool,…
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What to Pack For A Day Hike
In this video, I’ll show the items I would pack for a day hike. This will include the Essential Hiking Items along with a few luxury items that I have been carrying, but you can customize these items per your liking.
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Garmin inReach Explorer – Geocaching
In this video, we’ll show you how to load geocache waypoints on your Delorme inReach Explorer. Now we can enter manually waypoint information, but we want to load up multiple geocaches into our device. To help us do that, we need to create a GPX file that will contain these multiple geocaches or waypoints.
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Crystal Crescent Beach
On a hot summer morning, decided to drive down about 20 min from Halifax to Crystal Crescent Beach to check things out.
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How To Be Safe While Hiking
Be Safe When Hiking While listening to the weekly outdoor segment from the local radio station, I was a bit concerned about the lack of safety content when pressed by the radio host. It was more an opportunity to give a plug for a company than relay some useful information. Which got me thinking that…
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North Brewing – Halifax Common
Hey! We’re trying out the latest from North Brewing (formerly Bridge Brewing) here in Halifax Nova Scotia. This is their take on the California Common, called the halifax common. This is a 5% ABV beer.
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Garmin Forerunner 220 – How To Update Firmware
In this video, we will go over the steps to update the firmware on your Garmin Forerunner 220 using Garmin Express. You will to download & install the software before we begin.