Crabbing Catching and Cooking Tips
Visit and enjoy Crabbing Catching and Cooking Tips. Featuring catching Crab, Crab gear and Crab recipes. #89575 Mirror Image Touch Control Double Sided, Lighted Stand Vanity Makeup Mirror. Brushed Nickle . Swatch shown is for the color finish only. Image may not represent mirror. #89575 [...]
Year in Gear ’06
This gear program is a wrap-up of Backpack Gear Tests’s reviews of 2006. Steve asked the volunteer editors and moderators from Backpack Gear Test to pick their favorites; three replied: Ray Estrella1, Rick Allnutt2, and Jim Sabiston3. Out of more than a thousand reviews published on BGT this year, they recommended these: Nunatak Skaha Plus Down Sweater1 Nunatak Back Country Blanket1 Kershaw Rainbow Leek Knife2 SureFire L1 LumaMax Flashlight3 Trail Designs Caldera Cone Stove System2 Suunto Vector Wristop Computer Watch3 Six Moon Designs Essence Pack2 Exped Wall Creeper Sleeping Bag3 Backpack Gear Test has more gear to review than reviewers. You can start out by reviewing gear you already own, and then you might be able to get other free gear to review. Read: How to become a tester. Show number 71 [MP3 format; length 9:58; 2,394,512 bytes] Show number 71 script
Salmon News (outdoors)
Salmon News A complete daily news for Salmon fishing and where to go. Site is updated everyday. Finding Salmon fishing in Alaska, Canada, Washington State and Oregon. Shrimping and Shrimp Cooking Tips Welcome to the [...]
Orestimba Wilderness Updated
This wild places program revisits the Orestimba Wilderness of California’s Henry W. Coe State Park. It’s an amazingly remote wilderness surprisingly close to the San Francisco Bay Area. A new entrance to the park will make this remote wilderness more easily accessible. Steve rode with backcountry ranger Cameron Bowers on a patrol trip to the wilderness. Volunteer park historian Teddy Goodrich came along. They stopped for lunch and to talk along Red Creek, in the heart of the wilderness area. The Pine Ridge Association provides a lot of volunteer help to operate and maintain the park, and they maintain a comprehensive informational web site. Several years ago, the wilderness area was threatened by a proposal to route a high speed rail line through it. Traveling into the Orestimba Wilderness is a challenging trip. But no where is California’s inter-coastal range so well preserved and undeveloped. And you could have it all to yourself! This is an update of our edition number 44 of June 1st, 2006. At the time of our original story, the Ortestimba Wilderness was indeed difficult to get to. But as of next week, a new entrance will provide a trailhead much closer to the edge of the wilderness. Steve talks to C. L. Price, a sector superintendent for the California State Parks responsible Henry Coe State Park. He explains the new entrance that opens up on May 19th. Show number 85 [MP3 format; length 9:55; 2,384,449 bytes] Show number 85, extended high-fidelity stereo [MP3 format; length 14:00; 13,446,687 bytes] Show number 85 script Photo album
Using All Fours, part 1
This skills program is part 1 of our look at the science and skills, myths and fact around trekking poles. Is hiking with poles a trendy gimmick, or a valuable skill? Steve talks to Julianne Abendroth-Smith of Willamette University in Salem Oregon. She’s a biomechanics professor studying the physics of hiking, and how hiking with various poles and walking sticks affect the body. Steve talks to Jayah Faye Paley, an author and educator, and co-host of an educational DVD, POLES for hiking, Trekking & Walking. Jayah’s web site, Adventure Buddies, provides more information about her educational products and services. We’ll hear more from Julianne Abrendroth-Smith and Jayah Faye Paley in part two. We’ll find out Jayah’s techniques for using poles, and about what science says about those techniques. Show number 86 [MP3 format; length 9:55; 2,399,454 bytes] Show number 86 script
Counting Up Essentials, part 1
This skills program is the first half of a look at the ten essentials. Are there ten, and why are they essentials? Since it’s mysterious introduction by the Mountaineers early in the twentieth century, the 10 Essentials have been the list that everyone should know, and few could recite with certainty. In this edition, Doug Ritter, the executive director of the Equipped To Survive Foundation, and Amy Racina, author of the book Angels in the Wilderness, compare notes on some of their ideas of the 10 essentials. Next week, in part two, we’ll finish Doug’s list, and you’ll find out what happened to Amy. Show number 78 [MP3 format; length 9:48; 2,354,179 bytes] Show number 78 script
Light Lofty Jackets
This gear program presents reviews of two lightweight synthetic-insulated jackets. These jackets can serve as lighter, more compressible replacements for the ubiquitous fleece jacket. The reviews are provided by volunteer reviewers from Backpack Gear Test. Pamela Wyant reviews the Big Sky Products Convertible Sweater. Christine Korhonen reviews the Integral Designs PLQ Jacket. Backpack Gear Test has more gear to review than reviewers. You can start out by reviewing gear you already own, and then you might be able to get other free gear to review. Read: How to become a tester. Show number 68 [MP3 format; length 9:54; 2,377,584 bytes] Show number 68 script
Fighting Animal Terror
This skills program looks at how to handle potentially dangerous animals in the wilderness. How afraid of them do you really need to be? Is this something that should prevent you from getting into the wilderness? Steve interviews Dave Smith, a former backcountry caretaker at Yellowstone National Park, and the author of two books, Don’t Get Eaten, The Dangers of Animals that Charge or Attack, and Backcountry Bear Basics, the Definitive Guide to Avoiding Unpleasant Encounters. Dave talks about ways to handle bear, cougar, and large herd-animal encounters. Two great sources of information about bears are the Sierra Interagency Black Bear Group, and the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. Also, check out our earlier edition titled Keeping Bears Hungry. Show number 80 [MP3 format; length 9:59; 2,399,454 bytes] Show number 80, extended version [MP3 format; length 15:53; 7,627,402 bytes] Show number 80 script
