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.

• 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
• Edible plants
• 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.
• Message board guidelines
• Daisy chain How (not) to use a daisy chain.
• Gear lists
• 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.