Tips

This area is for sharing ideas, tips and tricks that are useful outdoors. The web links page also has lots of external websites with good stuff in them.

Outdoor Tips

• Navigation
• Winter safety
• Avalanche safety
• Gear ideas Gear suggestions and ideas for how to make your own.
• Photography tips
• Survival
• Snow shelters
• Ski maintenance Tips for waxing skis, tuning skis, and regluing skins.
• Footwear maintenance How or where to get boots and shoes of all types repaired.
• Daisy chain How (not) to use a daisy chain.
• Gear lists
• Trail building tips for building trails
• Hut building - tips for building huts

Food

• Where to eat When you're in the mountains
• Edible plants
• Recipes and other backcountry cooking related stuff.

Website/Wiki/Internet

• Message board guidelines
• Photo gallery How to use the VOC's own photo gallery.
• Online Mapping How to make your own maps for free.

External links

• Spadout has a vast comprehensive wiki website about backpacking, caving, rock climbing and skiing.
• Backpacker Magazine contains a acknowledgable subsection about proper footwear
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory has a searchable database for calorie and nutritional value of tons of food items. A downloadable program is also available for PC and PDA.
• Ice Axe Self Arrest Tips A YouTube Video from the British Mountaineering Council.