Category: Outdoors
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10 Essential Hiking Items
We will revisit the possibles bag, where I try to include as many of the 10 Essential Hiking Items as possible along with a few luxury items when I’m out hiking. If I’m going out for longer than 2 hours, then I will add a day pack and add what’s missing.
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Garmin fenix / tactix – How to Create & Navigate Waypoints
In this video we will look at how to create and navigate waypoints using your Garmin fenix or tactix.
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Lacing Traditional Snowshoes – Part 1 – Preparing
With the good snowshoe hiking season behind us, it’s time to refurbish or lace my traditional pair of snowshoes using new materials.
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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.