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Wilderness Safety So long as you use some good ole’ common sense, follow park rules, heed any warnings, and use your Pocket Ranger® app to guide your visit, we know you’ll have a blast exploring the outdoors. But what if you do all that and things still go awry? Fortunately, there are people like Joey Vulpis. Joey is [...]
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Daditude: A Father’s Day Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman This Sunday is Father’s Day, which means there’s still time to snag Pop a gift if you haven’t already. While a day pass to a favorite state park is our number one suggestion for an outdoor dad, we think he’ll be pretty pleased to unwrap any of the gadgets and gear on our 2013 gift [...]
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Snapper Time: Tips for making the most out of the Red Snapper season Contributed by Alex Vail, The Flying Kayak If you’re a Floridian like myself, you know that the long-anticipated Red Snapper season is soon to be under way. Though recent regulations have made it difficult for snapper fishing to seem worthwhile, there are ways in which you can still make the most out of the season. Location [...]
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Outdoor Adventures: 4 Great Camp Movies No, not that kind of camp. We’re talking about tent, compass and hiking camping. Here’s a list of 4 great camping and outdoor films from the past 30 years.   The Blair Witch Project Perhaps the most infamous camping movie, The Blair Witch Project was a small independent film released in 1999 with a $22,000 [...]
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SOG Woodline Knife Review and GIVEAWAY! Contributed by Al Quackenbush, The SoCal Bowhunter   Right out of the box the SOG Woodline fixed blade knife separated the elk hide from flesh like it was warm butter. It was sharp, fit perfectly in my hand and was a comfortable weight. Even though I had bloody hands, the SOG Woodline fixed blade knife is an [...]
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Review: LifeStraw helps outdoorsmen suck it up Contributed by Bill Howard. I keep a backpack I use on those “special” hunting trips where I may be gone from home for several days in the wilderness. I keep things such as an extra fall restraint system (in case my safety vest were to either get damaged or get used for its purpose, I [...]
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Giveaway, Part 2: 20 items under $20 Bill Howard‘s second offering of free gear is here! To enter, tell us in the comments section what you need for your next outdoor—you might just win your very own! We’ll announce the winner next Friday after our third installment. Good luck! LifeStraw Personal Water Filter I once posted that I find it as a [...]
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Let it Burn: How to Build a Campfire Campfires are to camping what packs are to hiking. Sure, you could probably do without one, but the experience would just not be the same. If not for a campfire we could not make s’mores or grill dinner, and, in the winter, we’d probably freeze by nightfall. Although the convenience of matches and lighters to ignite [...]
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Packing Tips: Essentials For a Bow Hunting Adventure Contributed by Al Quackenbush, The SoCal Bowhunter Over the past two decades I have seen hunting backpacks grow in popularity and size. Not only cubic inches, but number of pockets and where we can strap things. Don’t be sucked into the thought that you have to fill each and every pocket or empty space with something. [...]
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