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This is a chickee. The Everglades is a real wilderness that can kick your butt with bugs, wind, hungry animals and navigation.

I remember my first trip to the Okefenokee when I referred to our camping location as a chickee. I was promptly corrected and told in...

I vividly remember getting up in the dark at 10,800 feet in an elk. camp in Colorado. It was below zero some nights even in October...

When not hiking, I use a Marmot "Precip" rain jacket. The hood has always stayed where I want it and I appreciate having the pit zips...

I don't know much about snakes, but the infallible interweb tells me that most pit vipers, including northern copperheads, have keeled...

Neither the pine snake nor the northern water snake have a triangular head. Here's the head of a copperhead, which shows the plate-like...

We still use our Eureka "Sentinel" when car camping or even the occasional winter trip. Add to that our Coleman 2 burner gas stove and...

My father's tent from sometime in the 1980's - when it rains I put up an extra tarp just in case. Its a Eureka! Expedition. I could...

those old Coleman's never die, they just get crustier each year! ;) I have a bunch of old colemans that I still use, but my two...

Coleman two burner stove, Coleman lantern and Coleman Peak 1 backpacking stove (first generation) and a Optimus Primus stove. My go to...

To put a rib in, I machine and sand the rib. Next I steam it, bend the first corner then force the end up under the gunnels and then...

No expert here but I'm in agreement with Erica. I was always taught that the snakes with triangular heads were to be avoided due to...

I’m no snake expert, but that triangular head and thick body to me makes me think venomous snake. My guess would be a copperhead, but...

Makes paddling the Everglades somewhat less interesting. Or more interesting, depending on your point of view.

Yup, that's why I like a longer, narrow snowshoe for deep snow bushwacking. They allow a more natural stride than wider shoes but still...