Outdoor Quest

This post is about discussing how you you train your children to deal with stranger dealing with strangers in the backcountry. I clearly r...

Reviewing a topographic map is usually the starting point for the planning of any back country trip.  A topographic map is your roa...

This is post is all about a serious menace to folks in the backcountry.   Hemlock is deadly. Hemlock is a deadly invasive plant species tha...

Are you ready for rattlesnakes?  The following post is from a site that I just found a few years back.  This is great info as you head into ...

Here is a good tutorial on how to use Caltopo and  Avenza.https://douchepacker.com/2016/04/28/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-making-a-map-in-cal...

“ Declination : A Noun. The horizontal angle between the true geographic North Pole and the magnetic North Pole, as figured from a specifi...

My wife and I have been doing quite a bit of traveling this summer.  In late May we visited our friends in Virginia.  We had a very long da...