How To Articles
- Altitude Acclimatization Guide
This is a 19 page, 4.54 MB PDF file published by the U.S. Army. To quote the authors: The purpose of this guide is to provide the user with quantitative estimations of the health and performance decrements as a function of altitude, the degree of improvement in health and performance resulting from altitude acclimatization, and several methods for inducing altitude acclimatization.
- Baking Is Easy with the Outback Oven
You can enjoy fresh hot baked goods on the trail using an appliance that only weighs 12 ounces and is amazingly fuel efficient. You can bake a third of a 1 pound box of brownie, cornbread, or other baking mix at a time, which is enough for 2–4 people.
- Cultivate Resistance to Injury with Internal Kung Fu
You don’t want to get injured in the wilderness. There’s no emergency room to go to, and if you can’t walk out you have to be evacuated by stretcher, horse, or helicopter. It’s possible to reduce your risk of injury by studying martial arts, and I’ll tell you how to do it.
- How to Buy and Use a Food Dehydrator
For as little as $80 you can get a high-quality food dehydrator. Then your imagination will be the only limit to your dietary horizons. Some dehydrated foods have better textures than others, but what doesn’t dry well by hot air is often appealing when freeze-dried. Freeze-drying is beyond the scope of this article and the equipment for it costs thousands of dollars.
- How to Carry A Lot of Weight
It takes a good backpack and boots to be comfortable with a heavy load. Fortunately, there’s a backpack on the market that floats like a feather until you put more than 60 pounds in it. If you add more weight, it begins to feel like a backpack.
- How to Restock on Food and Fuel
The size of your load, if not its weight, will become unmanageable if you try to carry more than a week’s worth of food and fuel. Don’t even think about reducing your load by skimping on food, you’re going to need 3000–4000 calories per day to stay healthy and strong.
- Recommendations for the Selection of Warm Clothes
The National Park Service doesn’t allow campfires in the Arctic-Alpine ecosystem. I don’t mind, because campfires create a cocoon that shuts out the vastness of the wilderness night. Read about how I stay warm without a fire.