It's time for my summer hike down the canyon. My brother and his grandson, and my daughter and son are planning a different kind of hike to the thunder river on the north rim of the Grand canyon. should be pretty cool,even though it will be pretty hot in June. Cant wait to get my permits and get hiking.

As part of the outdoor equipment, headlamp owns all kinds of types or categories. How could we choose the headlamp suitable for ourselves? Now, let’s go to classify headlamp below.
In general, headlamps are classified into three categories: mini headlamp, multi-use headlamp and special-use headlamp.

[B]Mini headlamp[/B]: refer to very small and light headlamp. It is easy for us to put mini headlamp in the backpack, pocket or other place. This kind of headlamp is mainly used...

Since this is my first blog post and I have more time to write what is going on, I will start with a little about me, what I like to do, what I do, and were I do it.

First, I live in Honolulu, Hi. I'm from Wanchese, NC. I'm in the Navy, been in 10 years. Im on deployment now, and have over 6 months left on this deployment.

I love riding my Harley, I love Camping, hiking, backpacking, fishing, mtn biking, and taking pictures.

When I return to the Island,...

There's a lot of survival talk on this site and it has occured to me that not everyone here would survive a major problem.

I am a survival expert. That does not mean I can survive in every situation or that I have more skills than others on this site. But, I will be 62 next May and collecting Social Security. I've been all over the world and done just about everything. My daddy taught me survival training when I was still in single digits on age. Daddy was OSS in WWII. You...

We set off from Camp Cherokee on Middle Saranac with the intention of paddling to Tupper Lake in a day. It required one long portage over to a series of ponds connecting with the racquet river. The sun scorched us on the lake, but was gentle in the shade of the trees aligning the river highway. The bush was dense and gorgeous. We nearly made it, but darkness intervened, forcing us to bivouac on a front lawn.