Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Hunting Binoculars

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Hunting Binoculars
When purchasing Hunting Binoculars, be sure to look for excellent low-light capabilities. This typically means a larger objective lens, however, modern lens coatings help with light collection such that a small objective lens, and hence, lighter hunting binoculars are possible. Most effective hunting happens in the day´s first and last hours of light, so hunting binoculars which collect light efficiently are preferred.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips:Geocaching while Camping

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips:Geocaching while Camping
Basically, geocaching is a high-tech version of treasure hunting. Geocachers seek out hidden treasures utilizing GPS coordinates posted on the Internet by those hiding the cache. Using a GPS unit, they then trek out into the backwoods or urban jungles to find the hiding spot of the cache. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. If the visitor takes something out of the cache, they are asked to leave something in return. For some, the biggest reward is the thrill of the search and the discovery of a place that they have never been.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Tent Camping: Height

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Tent Camping: Height
Tent camping takes on many different forms. If you are going to car camp (no lugging the tent around) be sure to get a tent you can stand up in. This helps immeasurably when it´s time to get dressed. And while you´re at it, why not have cots in the tent? That way you won´t have to sit on the floor of the tent to put your boots on. This becomes more important as your mobility decreases due to injury or to old age.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Choosing a sleeping bag for Camping

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Choosing a sleeping bag for Camping
To pick a good sleeping bag, consider these items:
1) Dead space is difficult to keep warm; give yourself a few inches at the bottom and top for stretching, but no more.
2) Gore-Tex shells don´t allow moisture to escape, so consider Dry Loft which is breathable and resists water better than most microfibers. Ripstop is the most durable nylon/polyester shell.
3) Buy down-filled bags. Good quality bags will keep th down in place when you shake it.
4) Mummy bags are the most efficient for weight and warmth. If you´re claustrophobic, the semirectangular bag is the way to go with its tapered foot, contoured hood and torso space.
Buying the right camping gear is critically important.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Versatile Piece of Clothing

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Versatile Piece of Clothing
A bandanna is used to catch the morning dew for water and keep you cool on a sweltering day. It can also be used as a hotpad, sunscreen, tourniquet, cleaning cloth, to carry additional items and filter the water youll need to stay alive. Attached to a stick, that brightly-colored cloth becomes a rescue flag.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: GPS Startup Delay

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: GPS Startup Delay
Most new owners of a GPS unit can easily be discouraged by the possibility that a new GPS unit may take over a half hour to come up with a position after it is first powered up.

If you power it up within 25 miles of it´s last position, a fix is normally found pretty fast, under a minute or two by most units that store it after power down and run their own onboard clock, but if you take a flight cross country, and power it up, it´s gonna be a while.

All of these units are going to have an initialization screen that will allow the user to reset the current approximate position when you know the unit so work with the unit and you will get the most out of this great technology.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Washing dishes

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Washing dishes
Start by heating some water in your largest cooking pan–this will be your “sink”. You should have some dishwashing liquid and a scrubber sponge. When the water is warm, add a little dishwashing liquid and start washing. We have a 5-gallon water container that sits on a campstool, and has a little water spigot on the side of it, pointing downward. After washing a dish, I rinse it under the spigot and hand it to my helper for drying. I also use a brown paper bag as a dish drain in case I get ahead of him and need to set something down. Try to do all this activity on the perimeter of your campsite, and not right next to your table or tent, as it tends to leave a pretty good puddle by the time you´re finished.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Car Camping Tent

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Car Camping Tent
If you´re going to car camp (drive to a spot and set up camp) then you´re going to need the proper camping tent. Be sure to get a camping tent that indicates it can handle 2 more people than you will have in the tent. For example, if there will be 2 people in the tent, get a 4 person tent. The room will come in handy for storing your camping gear, especially during inclement weather.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Understanding the Whole Cost

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: Understanding the Whole Cost
If you are going through the purchase decision process for a new GPS Unit, be sure to price the map software, cables and (if available) an external antenna before you make a decision. These items can run the purchase price up quickly after you have committed to the basic unit.

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: GPS or Compass

November 11th, 2008 Shaka

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Camping Gear Equipment Tips: GPS or Compass
The GPS unit is not a compass. Despite its excellent qualities, the GPS system can be shut down at times. In addition, the units run on batteries which can fail. Do not become enamored with your GPS; always carry a compass. I carry both.

Oh….and learn how to use everything you carry with you. Your life, and the lives of those in your care, may depend on it.

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