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We have power outages. I use all my old Coleman stuff. About 3 gallons of white gas on hand.

Good point. I have to admit, I have gone back to white gas lantern and stove for car camping. The lantern, because it's quieter than...

Camping is so traditional I kind of like the old stuff. I no longer use candle lanterns. I rarely use a gas or propane lantern except...

Planimeter, able to measure to hundreths of a square inch. It was used by foresters to measure the scaled mapping area of forest stands...

For the five Yukon River races I have been on (both the 440 miler YRQ and 1000 miler Y1K), I planned and plotted the entire route using...

I still have one somewhere. Think I last used it around 1982.

Any obsolete camping equipment?

I went from hand drawing units from stereo pair aerial photo interpretation and USGS topo mapping to using Autodesk AutoCAD and ESRI...

Nice one. I’ve used them many moons ago at work. CAD kinda made them obsolete, although I have a cheap one for trip planning. Set it...

Here’s an analytical stereo plotter, connected to a CAD mapping systems. I was making my living running this on 2nd shift while...

Plotting tool.

Yes. We used the engineers rule. And the architects rule. I have an undergrad degree in geography. When I started environmental...

I ran across this old engineer's scale, from my cartographic drafting days. I started hand drafting maps from pencil manuscripts to...

I make it a practice to treat my clothes and tent at the beginning of the season with Permethrin. It is effective against ticks and...

I have an expedition as well, 900 ace, really like that machine. Unfortunately, we have so much snow that our usual avenues for fun...