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I get tremendous personal satisfaction from learning, practicing, and using my outdoor skills when I go hiking, and it’s become an integral part of every day hike or backpacking trip I take. But there are so many outdoor skills that I am unfamiliar with covered in Mors Kochanski’s classic “Bushcraft”, that I could easily spend the rest of my life …

A friend of mine had gone hiking the previous day in the Harold Parker State Forest in Andover, so I decided to check it out. I got lost on the drive up and ended up at Ward Reservation, a conservation area managed by the affluent Trustees of Reservations. I knew that one of the hiking trails through the reservation was the …

I always get a kick reading really old hiking and backpacking magazines and seeing the print advertisements that gear manufacturers used to run. I’ve pulled some of them together in this post to give you a look at the gear that manufacturers were trying to sell people nearly 40 years ago, from 1973-1975. I’m sure you’ll recognize many of the …

I believe in creating a new gear list for every trip I take that takes into consideration the environmental conditions (weather, terrain, water, navigation, sunlight, etc) I’m likely to encounter. There was a time when I had one static gear list, but ever since I started hiking year round in a variety of different climates, countries, and seasons, that changed. …