Category: Outdoors
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Brasserie Breughel – Bière de Nöel
Our review of Brasserie Breughel Bière de Nöel which is a extra strong 11% dark ale Christmas beer. Lots of coriander and organic cane sugar.
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Plot Coordinates on a Map With Garmin inReach Explorer
We will take a quick look at how we can take coordinates from our current location or saved waypoints on our Delorme inReach SE or Explorer.
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Cape George Hiking Trails
Cape George Heritage Trails are a network of footpaths totalling 37kms about a half hour from Antigonish Nova Scotia. One of the first trails designed by local trail building guru Peter jackson, you park at the Cape George Heritage School along route 337.
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Map & Compass – How to Convert lat/lon to Decimal Format
Whether you are using Google Maps, GSAK or geocaching.com, sometimes you need to convert a set of coordinates from the latitude / longitude format to the decimal format.
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Map & Compass – How To Determine Bearing Using UTM
In this video, I’ll quickly show you how to determine the bearing (direction of travel) from 2 points using paper & pen. At the end, I’ll show you how to get the same as answer on your GPS. This is part 2 of my previous video on using UTM to measure the distance between 2…
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How To Estimate Distance Without a GPS When Hiking With Map & Compass
In this video, I’ll show you how to estimate distance without a GPS when using map & compass while hiking. This was something I learned when volunteering at the halifax search & rescue as part of the woodslore training that volunteers had to do.
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Map & Compass – Navigation Leapfrog Technique
In this video, we’ll look at the leapfrog technique for map & compass navigation/ This is used when you have a partner navigating in a wooded area where it can be easy to get off course as you go around tress or other obstacles.
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Garmin Forerunner 220 – How To Tutorials
We got our hands on the Garmin Forerunner 220 , the latest generation running GPS watch from Garmin. We have included some tutorials to show you how certain features work either before you buy or have the watch on order. General Impressions My top recommendation for the last few months has been the TomTom GPS…
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5 Smartphone Apps to Use on Your Next Hiking Adventure
We are using our smartphones more and more while hiking to perform many tasks we used to reserve for multiple devices or hauling paper. I’ll be looking at a few iOS apps which I use pretty much at every hike, some have an Android version or you can find an equivalent.
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Garrison Brewing – Spruce Beer
The First Batch Was lucky enough to get my hands on a bottle of Spruce Beer from Garrison. This was a small production run. The batch was in high demand and they sold out within two days. This video shows my experience. The spruce taste reminded me of when I had to go into the…