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How Caffeine in Sport Drinks Affects You
It is summertime – time for long hikes, lake swims, trail runs and camping trips. While you’re on your many mile treks in the warm weather, you probably consider dehydration. Perhaps you just drink water, but you may also...
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How To Cross Train For Your Sport
Transitioning from winter into summer activities is not the easiest physical challenge to tackle. However, with the right attitude, the cross-training effect is phenomenal. (Take a look at this link for an introduction.) There are three training categories to...
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How to Write a Climbing Guidebook
How does one write a guidebook? Charlie explains how he ended up with this job, that it’s not as easy as it sounds, and why he thought Tuolumne Meadows would be the perfect place to write about.I used to...
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Out of Reach: Bear Smarts for Food Storage
Backcountry travel in bear country is a privilege. Seeing them in their natural habitat (and on their turf) is an invigorating experience, which is better understood from a safe distance. When we go on extended trips into their territory,...
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How to Get a Full Night of Sleeping Outdoors
to Go big and you’ll need your rest, that’s for sure. Whether you’re climbing, riding, hiking, or even doing a ski traverse this spring, at the end of the day you need to sleep. Problem is, many an adventure...
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Skiing Doesn’t Have to End with Winter
Any skier worth his or her salt knows that just because chairlifts close doesn’t mean it’s a wrap for the ski season. Far from it. Sure, the dilettantes make their way to the desert for crack climbing and mountain...
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Dark Sky Preserves
Sky light, sky bright
First star I see tonight
Wish I may, wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight.There’s something magical about a starry night – and no better place to witness the full spectacle than out...
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Inspired Camping and the Nuance of Simplicity
Many diehards continue to deny the changing of season and find their worth in the glory of skiing as many peaks as possible before all the snow melts. Good for them. Many others, however, are looking forward to the...
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Facts about Hypothermia
It was my first overnight canoe trip with a school group; I was 13 years old. Overcast skies turned to rain and then flurries. I fought to put on a rubberized rain jacket. I couldn’t find my hat. A...
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Taking Care of Your Tent
The last of the golden light fades from distant peaks and as you go to open the tent door – the zipper jams. As darkness rapidly descends and you scramble to find the headlamp, you’re reminded that looking after...
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Best Sleeping Bag for Camping
Whether you’re curled up out under the open sky or tucked away safely in your tent, you’ll be depending...