Equipment

Occasionally when somebody posts an Internet question or concerns about navigating outdoors, I reply by recommending that they acquire a Garmin Montana Mapping GPS 750i.  The downsides are that this device is about the largest, heaviest, most complicated, most difficult to learn, and the most expensive GPS on the market.  The…

On the chilly but sunny Saturday afternoon of March 11, 2023, I pulled my canoe out of the storage shed and upgraded some outfitting. It already had yellow floatation bags permanently installed in the bow and stern.  And it already had a purple bag and green river dry bags.  The…

A few years ago, I learned a valuable lesson in outdoor skills and life skills from Eustace Conway at Turtle Island Preserve.  I was taking one of his classes on making fire by friction. The instructor, who was not Eustace, showed us how to find the materials in the woods…

I have been physically attacked in my law office by a hot headed young man who I defeated in Court and embarrassed the day before. At other times, I have been chased and bitten by big, mean dogs while mountain biking. Once while backpacking in the Slickrock Creek Wilderness of…