MichaelMerry

We had a great trip last week on the Allagash. We did the section from Churchill Dam to Michaud Farm with a day to explore the lakes...

I had a different group trip fall apart in the Adirondacks so rather than give up the time off I started looking at maps and realized I...

Bears can smell everything. That includes canned goods, toothpaste, pouch food, your dog and you.

I started backpacking with a tarp about 12 years ago. I wear a head net at night over a baseball cap. It is cool in the West except...

Other people here have mentioned dehydrators. Nearly all of our backcountry meals are made at home and dehydrated. In fact, we eat many...

The Loon looked at me like I was an alien in his foggy wonderland. The low hanging clouds and fog in the morning made for an ethereal...

Morning came The darkness that surrounded my tent slowly lightened. I had been up since 0530hrs but stayed in my bag trying to get a...

Morning came early, this had become normal being wide awake at 0500hrs. The early evenings of going to bed a hour or two past sun down...

I'm posting this day trip mainly because it's rather unique owing to it's location and timing... Rainy Lake is located in the North...

I Live to close to NYC. So if unfortunately I wasn't taken out in the first wave. I would probly try to use bike paths to get north. I...

If preppers spent their time and money on getting to know their neighbors and investing in their community they would be safer, more...

Growing up as I did in SW PA, a trip to Johnstown and the flood museums there were inevitable. Looking at the old photos, I've never...

Well, the trip I have dreamed of since boyhood in about to come to fruition. Drive up to Sudbury on 6/9, get on the train on 6/11 at 5...

10 x 14 CCS tarp and 4 x 8 mosquito netting to hang from the tarp if needed. But, just spent 5 nites in Canada sleeping under the...

One of the most marvelous sensations was using no tent, no tarp, no bug protection. Just lie down in your sleeping bag any where you...