Category: Outdoors
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Making a Winter Campfire Mink Oil & Cotton Firestarter
Quick demo on how to start a campfire in the winter and also to talk about the firestarter used. The campsire was built first by laying a row of sticks as the base. this will keep it off the snow and allow for air flow. Then it’s the usual method to build the camp fire.
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Map & Compass – Safety Bearing
Quick video to demonstrate what a safety bearing is. A safety bearing is a direction of travel that will lead you to a road, railway which can lead you to safety when lost in the woods or when your GPS fails.
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St Ambroise – 2011 Vintage Ale – Aged 3 Years
We are back for our third review of this beer in three years. We waited another year and dug out another one from the cellar!
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Primus Ignition Steel vs Sparkie Fire Starter
In this video, I compared the usage of two fire starters. Otherwise known as firesteel, fiero rods, ignition steel, etc…
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Garmin fenix – Custom Workouts
In this video, we will look at how to load a custom workout using heart rate training do to a running activity using your Garmin fenix/tactix. Here we will look at running 10k under zone 2 with auto-laps.
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Garrison Brewing – Martello Stout vs Guiness
We grabbed a can of Guinness Stout and a local #nscraftbeer from Nova Scotia – Garrison Brewing Martello Stout and decided to compare them within the Stout guidelines.
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KEEN Wichita Shoe Review
We will take a look at KEEN Footwear Wichita shoes for men after 6 months of usage and see how they held up.
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Using a Firebowl
In this video, I’ll show you how to boil water using a fire bowl as per the Leave No Trace principle of minimizing camp fires.
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Garmin fenix – How To Install Maps
In this video, we’ll look at an undocumented feature for the fenix / tactix; loading maps. The device only has about 20MB of storage space, you probably don’t want to load up more than 10MB of maps and still be able to load waypoints, tracks, etc…. I think 5MB would be enough.
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Recharging Your Hiking Gear
I realized that unlike my previous generation of tech, I had chosen devices that used AA batteries, especially when it came to GPS & Satellite communicator. In the event that I ran low on power, I could swap batteries and extend the life of these. It also meant easy resupply of batteries by carrying just…