Tag: outdoors
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Garmin fenix Tutorials
Satellite Page In this video we will look at the Satellite page on the Garmin fenix / tactix. When you press the ORANGE button and select START GPS. The outer ring will be your primary indicator of satellite acquisition. However, you want more information about the satellites and reception, you can view the satellite page,…
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Charging up Devices Before & During a Hike
It happens that when you are driving out to a trailhead for a hike, you may forget to charge up all of your devices. This video is about how you can top up your devices while driving and in the field. Here I have my typical devices; garmin fenix, delorme inreach explorer and iPhone 5s.…
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Keysmart 2.0 Product Review
Quick product review of Keysmart 2.0, which you can get via their website at http://getkeysmart.com This started out as a kickstarter project originally and you can find similar items, but I think this does it right by keeping it simple. Here I’m using the standard 3-4 keys model.
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How to Navigate Using Flagging Tape
I mentioned in a previous video to include flagging tape or trail tape to your pack. The reason is to be use as a navigation tool to help you stay on course. I had previously shown you how two people could navigate using the leap frog technique to stay on course, but if you are…
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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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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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Frogg Toggs – Ultralight2 Rainsuit Product Review
We take a quick look at a rain suit from Frogg Toggs. The main selling points is that it is advertised as affordable, waterproof & breathable.
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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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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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Granite Gear Alpha Dog Hiking Pack
Fall is a good time of year to get back into hiking longer distances, but I wanted to look into getting the dog something that he can haul his gear- so I got him a Granite Gear Alpha Dog pack.