Warm hands can make or break any hiking trip into the winter woods. Check out these tips for keeping hands toasty.
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Winter Camping
Feel the chill comin’?
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I’m working on a story for a hiking magazine about the lack of an American standard to determine temperature ratings for sleeping bags and winter apparel. The Institute for Environmental Research at Kansas State has developed one for clothing and is pushing for a sleeping bag standard, but thus far major manufacturers appear resistant, according [...]
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What is it about the articles at the back of an issue of National Geographic? I often find those to be the most interesting pieces as oppose to the main features highlighted by the cover. You know the articles I’m talking about here. They start on like page 100 with some but not much fanfare. [...]
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PrimaLoft, the synthetic down material found in some sleeping bags and winter parkas, announced Monday it was releasing a new and improved product: PrimaLoft Infinity. And the idea now is to offer cold weather sleeping bags stuffed with PrimaLoft, staring with Eastern Mountain Sports’ Boreal 20 degree bag. From SNEWS: “While PrimaLoft Sport has been [...]
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I lament the lengthy amount of time it took me to get to this, but Backpacker‘s Steve Howe, the Rocky Mountain editor, posted some important tips on how to survive your first (or even your tenth) winter backpacking experience. Some I knew, some took my by surprised, all of them you should keep in mind [...]
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I’m warm and toasty in my man room at home in Lancaster city (the one room in our apartment my fiance and I agree will be decorated and maintained solely by me), but the coziness and electric heat is quite a contrast to the frigid conditions Jason Stevenson and I slept in this weekend [...]
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