Tips

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

• Navigation
• Avalanche safety
• Gear ideas - gear suggestions and ideas for how to make your own
• Photography tips
• Recipes and other backcountry cooking related stuff
• 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.
• VOC Message Board Guidelines

External links

• Spadout has a vast comprehensive wiki website about backpacking, caving and rock climbing
• Backpacker Magazine contains a acknowledgable subsection about proper footwear