Equipment

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…

Years ago the DeLorme company of Maine invented a GPS device the size of two flip phones which held electronic copies of maps and could show you on the map screen where you were located.  When combined with a computer the device could desgn routes and way points to plan…