Getting Around GPS
This skills program discusses things you need to know before relying on a portable GPS receiver. Finding your way there and finding your way home is not always so easy in the wilderness. Steve talks with author Stephen Hinch who wrote the book, outdoor Navigation with GPS. Stephen is a high-tech executive with technical knowledge of the GPS system and a love of wilderness travel. A GPS receiver can make navigaton easier, but what do you need to know to use it, and what do you need to know when it’s not making it easier? What should you look for if you’re shopping for one? What’s the easiest way to use one in order to keep from getting lost? Stephen also mentions orienteering as a great way to learn navigation skills to use when you can’t use GPS. Through the U.S. Orienteering Federation, you can find a local club that can teach you more traditional navigation skills. Show number 124 [MP3 format; length 9:59; 2,398,734 bytes] Show number 124, extended version [MP3 format; length 12:11; 5,855,052 bytes] Show number 124 script JOIN NOW — Help us help more folks to appreciate our wild public lands.
Urban Girls Gone Wild
This skills program is an introduction to how life-long urbanites can discover camping. What happens when you take a city girl to the woods? Steve interviews Heather Menicucci, the author of Let’s Get Primitive, The Urban Girl’s Guide to camping. Heather talks about the boyfriend who seduced her with the outdoors, how she made the transition from neurotic New Yorker to nature girl, and some of the things you need to know to get out of the concrete jungle and into the primeval forest. What is pastoral paranoia, and how do you cure it? Heather Menicucci says that it’s all in getting a dose of nature and discovering what you’ve been missing. Heather invites you to share your fears about getting out of the city and into the wilderness at her blog, Let’s Get Primitive. We invite you to share your story about how you got out of the city and discovered camping and nature by calling our toll-free comment line at 866-590-7373. Show number 114 [MP3 format; length 9:54; 2,380,451 bytes] Show number 114, extended version [MP3 format; length 15:15; 7,326,689 bytes] Show number 114 script Show number 114 script, extended version JOIN NOW — Help us help more folks to appreciate our wild public lands.
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.
Creatures of the Night, part 1
This skills program is part one of a Halloween look at how to appreciate those mysterious flying, furry mammals that dominate the night sky. What do we really know about them, and how can we learn more about them? Steve talks with Curt Black from Seattle, an expert on certain mammals of the order Chiroptera, who tells us why they’re fascinating. Curt dispels some common myths that often cause people to fear them. We also hear briefly from Dave Smith, an expert on safety around animals such as bears and cougars, who we interviewed in our show number 80, Fighting Animal Terror. Dave has his own reaction to these nocturnal creatures. How can you go bat-watching? What’s the best way to watch bats in your own favorite wilderness? Find out next week, in part two. Show number 109 [MP3 format; length 9:59; 2,390,801 bytes] Show number 109 script JOIN NOW — Help us help more folks to appreciate our wild public lands.
Scared Indoors, part 1
This wild places program asks how mass media might be affecting people’s interest in getting into the wilderness. They came, they saw, they almost bought it; are these the kind of stories that inspire you to get into the wilderness? Steve explores this question with the help of: Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods. Raymond Garcia, a summer visitor to Yosemite National Park. Fitz Cahall, creator and producer of the podcast, the Dirtbag Diaries. Ryan Jordan, founder and publisher of Backpacking Light Magazine, and participant in the Arctic 1,000 Expedition. Andrew Skurka, noted long-distance hiker, the first to hike the 6,875 mile Great Western Loop. We’d like to include some of your comments in next week’s part 2. Can you give us examples of mainstream media you’ve read, listened to, or watched that scared you away from trying what you saw? Better yet, how about examples of mainstream media describing wilderness adventures that seemed completely within your reach and looked like a good time? Let us know by calling our toll-free comment line at 866-590-7373. Next week, in part 2, we’ll try to answer the question that this week’s program asks. Our thanks to Fitz Cahall for supplying the recording of his interview, and for permission to use an excerpt from his show, No Big Deal. Show number 126 [MP3 format; length 9:58; 2,395,812 bytes] Show number 126 script JOIN NOW — Help us help more folks to appreciate our wild public lands.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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