Category Archives: GEAR
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GEAR: Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks – Review
If you thought your job was hard, try being a National Park Ranger. Andrea Lankford’s Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks throws a little wrench in your plans for that dream job. But…wait! Being a National Park Ranger isn’t all hiking and telling people about natural and national history all day […]
GEAR: The Cartographer iPhone App
Before the days of GPS and Google Earth, cartography was both an art and a science revered by everyone up to the highest ranks of society. The elite would adorn their homes with finely drawn maps handcrafted by the most talented of artists. Explorers would create maps on the fly, creating routes to the new […]
GEAR: Noticing Nature by Chuck Bonner
It’s always tough for me to write reviews of products I didn’t like, especially from everyday people trying their best to express themselves while making a product people will enjoy. Unfortunately, I’d be doing a disservice to everyone if I wasn’t honest about my thoughts on a product I was asked to review. Bear that […]
Guide to Holiday Gift Guides
Win gear from Gore-Tex until Dec.17
Gore-Tex, the venerable waterproof fabric maker, is holding a “Where in the World” guess the location type contest from now until December 17. Basically, Gore-Tex has a picture located here, and will reveal a little more of the picture everyday until someone guesses where it is. You do have to register on the site to […]
GEAR: DIY Ultralight “Cat” Backpacking Stove
I’m not huge into ultralight anything. My current backpacking stove, the MSR Whisperlite International, is a beast, but it gets the job done. As I’m thinking about taking day long and multi-day long fly fishing trips, weight starts to become an issue. When the main point of my trip is to simply hike a trail, […]
The many layers of layering for fall.
This past weekend, I saw 65 and sunny, sub-30 and frosty, rainy, windy, and foggy. In Maine in the fall, schizophrenic weather is par for the course. Layering is essential in order to cope with the ever changing meteorological moods of our state, but it’s also a delicate process. In order to avoid the dreaded […]