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What to do before getting lost on hike
Helpful gear for any situation
Getting lost is a piece of cake.
Find out which gear is right for you also
Overlooked trail junctions. Misread maps.
other stuff that I have yet to come up with
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Ever want to hike in across America,
I think that this is a better way to spell this word, am I
or Just want to find the best place
right. Canoe, what’s up with that.
50 Stops
Canoe for begginers
in your state. Find out right here.
monthly
13 Cameras
9 Grass?
20 Big foot
14 Canoo
Shooting landscapes, selfies, or wildlife? Find the perfect camera to fit you needs.
Out top 15 tips for laying in the grass. Also other things.
Look over thare what’s that!?
I think that this is a better way to spell this word, am I right. Canoe, what’s up with that.
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.�
albert einstein
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Lost Getting lost is a piece of cake. Overlooked trail junctions.
Misread maps. False game trails. It’s easy to let your brain relax during the one minute you should have been paying attention.
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“Before
search
and
rescue
teams look for a lost hiker, they try to find the victim’s car.”
In a previous articles I described why decisions made during the first five minutes
Sign a Trail Register or Leave a Dashboard Note
after becoming lost are crucial to regaining your
Before search and rescue (SAR) teams look for
bearings. In today’s post let’s assume your initial
a lost hiker, they try to find the victim’s car. Locating
attempts at self-rescue failed. Now your ordeal
it (and the trailhead where it’s parked) can narrow
is slipping towards a multi-day, chew-your-boot-
their search box. Even better is when lost hikers
leather survival epic. Like Aron Ralston, this is
leave details about their upcoming trip in a trail
when you wish you told someone where you were
register. Many trailheads feature registers—usually a
hiking.
wooden box or kiosk containing a scratchy pen and
Too many people follow Aron’s infamous
a soggy notebook. Hikers are asked to record basic
example and head outdoors without alerting
information like start date, the number of hikers
anyone about their destination, route, or expected
in a party, campsites, and their expected return
return time. Either these hikers think they’re too
date. If a permit is required to hike or camp, park
experienced to get lost, or don’t want to admit that
rangers will probably collect this information during
misfortune could occur to them. Designating an
the registration process. But without a permit, your
emergency contact, however, isn’t admitting that
registry entry might be the only breadcrumbs SAR
you’re a bad navigator. Instead, it’s another tool
teams have to follow. That’s why you should always
to keep you safer on the trail—just like the ten
sign a trail register or leave your trip details with
essentials, map reading, and warm clothing. Plus,
local officials.
telling a co-worker that “I’m going backpacking this
If no trail registry is available, a second
weekend in Maine…” isn’t the correct way to make
option is to leave a note on the dashboard of your
a back-up plan. Just in case the worst happens to
parked car. A dashboard note lets you record details
you, here are two precautions to take before every
like the ages of the hikers, cell phone numbers,
major hike.
experience levels, a list of trails and campsites you
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Fall Hiking Skills
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Defeat Heat Thieves
sleeping and sitting surfaces with your pack or
Any time air temperature is below 98.6°F, bare
sleeping pad, or even dry leaves.
skin vents heat. Fix Cover exposed skin with gloves, a hat, neck gaiter, and a face shield. Go inside a
Eat Your Way to Warmth
shelter, which traps body heat. During a tough
Switch to a high-fat diet. Calorie-dense foods like
hike, cooling sweat could drench your layers and
chocolate, nuts, and cheese metabolize slowly,
drying them wastes energy. Fix Adjust pace and
prolonging digestion’s hour-long, body-warming
clothing to avoid excess sweating, and slow down 30
effect. Drink green tea, Catechin-packed tea boosts
minutes before reaching camp to let body heat dry
metabolism, and hot drinks in general cause sensors
baselayers. Convection Moving air cools skin fast
in your arteries to shuttle more blood to your
that’s why windchill makes temps feel colder. Fix
extremities, making you feel warmer.
Wear windproof outer layers, seek shelter, and plan
Add oil and spices, olive oil is a caloric H-bomb,
a route with minimal wind exposure, like a forest
and eating mild spices (ginger, nutmeg, and
or a canyon. Contact with frigid surfaces siphons
cinnamon) increases blood flow to the skin. Beware
heat as the temperatures equalize. Fix Insulate
of capsaicin in hot chilies; it’ll make you sweat.
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