For a complete rundown on GEAR and SUPPLEMENTS, click on: GET THE BEST GEAR & SUPPLEMENTS . There you will get links to my recommendations of the best books, equipment and supplements available. In this photo essay, each image has accompanying text in the caption and comments. You will miss much of the text if you view it as a slide show. So click on the first image and then view one at a time reading caption, and then comments. You will see here a 58 year evolution of technique and equipment–from Army surplus gear that saw action against the Japanese in World War II, down to some of the best now available. Links to the options I present so you can get more information to make practical decisions for your needs and interests are only supplied in the GEAR….section and in the article mentioned below.
As the summer backpack season is approaching I have created an article entitled HOW I DO A 3 DAY BACKPACK with up-to-date information and links to all the best equipment available. I will always try and keep it simple and practical. If backpacking requires studying a thick book, something is wrong in my opinion.
SURVIVAL in the High Country
This “article” is rather a photo essay, the text found in the captions and comments. So to get the whole story click on the first image and then view one at a time, reading the captions and comments. The following crucial aspects of survival in high alpine areas, with certain elements applicable to any wilderness experience, are as follows:
1. Lance Armstrong Inspired 27 Day Survival Epic
2. A Kings Peak/Henrys Fork life and death experience–sick, heart attack and the ultimate survival principle.
3. Bears.
4. Hypothermia
5. Life and death survival tools: Satellite phone and SPOT personal satellite tracker.
6. Lightning.
7. High altitude sickeness.–an introduction on the Garfield Basin Trail.
8. My First Survival Experience complicated by High Altitude sickeness.
9. Survival: Weakened by sickness and attacked by High Altitude Sickness–HOW TO GET HELP?
NOTE: Each of these will be added to and completed over the next year or two.
The High Uinta’s TIE HACK HEROES
The following is a “Preliminary Report” on the amazing Tie Hacker Culture of the Uintas North Slope. It is a photo essay with the descriptive text acompanying each image from caption to comment. You will miss the text if you see it as a slide show. Click on the first image and then view one at a time to get the explanation of this incredible story of true unsung American heroes. By late Spring there will be an important updating, and after the 2010 summer/fall season, a completion of the story, including reports on important ghost towns and heretofore unpublished reports on at least one important tie hacker community in a remote, seldom visited North Slope drainage.
New website
Because of issues with FTP and Blogger we have been forced to create a new website. This website will be easier for Cordell to edit and do as he pleases without the need of a “tech guy”.
Posted by Jesse B Andersen