Review: Best everyday carry knife? We check out the L.T. Wright ‘Next Gen’
The best everyday carry knife is easy and convenient to take along. The “Next Gen” could be what you’re looking for.
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Review: The Lon Humphrey Sterling may be the traditional knife for modern uses
The best survival knife is one you enjoy carrying, because you’ll have it along when it’s needed. The new Sterling from Lon Humphrey Custom Knives is affordable, good looking and really useful, and may be what you’re looking for.
read moreIs a headlamp the best survival light ? We review the Pelican 2765 LED Headlight
You need several light sources in your survival/emergency gear, IMHO, and one of them should be a reliable headlamp.
read moreHow to force a patina on carbon steel blade
Make a carbon steel blade look antique with this simple method of forcing a patina with vinegar.
read moreIs this the best fillet knife? We review the Bark River Kalahari Sportsman
A quality fillet knife is one of the most useful outdoor tools imaginable. We wring out Bark River’s Sportsman.
read moreDownriver Chapter 11: Vision Quest?
Sometimes an experience will bring up memories that have lain dormant for years. Maybe it was of something that didn’t seem particularly important at the time it was happening. Possibly the new experience is like a key word on a computer that opens up an apparently unrelated, or unsuspected file.
Or maybe that first memory wasn’t complete, without something to trigger it.
Downriver: Prescott, Wisconsin Chapter 9
The beauty of the morning seemed to be an apology for the storm the night before. As I leafed through my journal, looking for dampness, I had to smile at the previous day’s entry. It would have to be extensively re-written!
read moreDownriver: Little Falls to the Twin Cities Chapter 8
Once you get through the lock at St.Paul, the Mississippi changes character and becomes a commercial river.
read moreDownriver: Cass Lake and the Ricers Chapter 6
The Chippewa Indians have always thought the wild rice beds are a gift from God. Today, wild rice is still important to the Indian people.
read moreDownriver: Chapter 3 Lake Itasca to Bemidgi
Lake Itasca to Bemidgi We started paddling the next morning from Wanagan through a canoeist’s paradise. The Upper Mississippi is a canoeist’s paradise! (traveltips.usatoday.com photo) The scenery ranged from pine forests that infused the air with a sweet, pine woods smell, to marshes full of cattails with stalks higher than our heads. The wetlands were full of waterfowl. It seemed…
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