Wearing Cotton – Cotton is great for bombing around town or the trip to the mall. It is soft and comfortable but once cotton is wet, it stays wet and loses any insulating properties. If the summer nothing is worse than your sweat drenched clammy cotton shirt sticking to you. Pick wicking clothing; you can
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Making the transition from car camping to wilderness camping and backpacking leaves the question about bathrooms… Believe it or not you are going to have to go in the woods, you are going to have to and bury it and maybe even pack it out… Let’s dive umm.. head first into this semi-taboo subject. Most
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Your first aid kit should be more than a few ibuprofen and a couple band aids. How much you choose to take is really up to group size and the length of the trip. Do you need the same kit on a 2 mile hike with the family as you would on a seven day
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Leave No Trace, also known as LNT is something we should all follow to the best of our ability in the backcountry. Keeping the land that we love as pristine as possible for other to enjoy for many years to come. The beginnings of can be traced back the 1970’s and 1980’s when the US
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Simple hiking etiquette can go a long way in making trail experience more enjoyable. Most state parks have rules and regulations posted but trail etiquette is a bit more. Share the trail – Common rule is bikers yield to horses and hikers. Hikers yield to horses and horses yield to none. This is the common
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by Falcon Guides. Husky Hiker wants to get out more and lose some weight… Do you want to get outside, hike more? Enjoy the weather? I’m all about motivating you to get out and do more and maybe drop some pounds in the process. HuskyHiker.com will share hiking tips, weight loss tips, trips and other adventures… All Aboard!
