Low-impact techniques for enjoying the wilderness while preserving it for others to enjoy. “Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” Henry David Thoreau Your mother taught you to clean up after yourself, and your scoutmaster probably told you to take only photos, and leave only footprints. […]
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Archive for Learning
The ‘philosophy of safety’ outlined here will set a beginning paddler on a smart and swift course of learning. Author: John Lull Copyright 2001, Wilderness Press, ISBN 0-89997-274-8 Though perhaps burdened with a rather dry title, and being ostensibly aimed at the intermediate paddler, “Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue” is a book I wish I’d […]
Author: David Seidman Copyright 2000, International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, ISBN-10: 0071362371, 160 pages Just as with many novice kayakers, it seems most basic how-to-paddle books suffer from a certain overeagerness to hit the big water and start touring. So, they tend to cover such topics as navigation, packing for camping, advanced safety gear, and all-in […]
Honing our wilderness first-aid skills “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” William Shakespeare I took Spanish in eighth grade, because I needed the extra language credit. But I hardly spoke a word of it after that. I took a wilderness-medicine and first-aid course a couple years ago. I learned a lot, […]