Getting Ready for Backpacking Season

Tips and suggestions for getting ready for backpacking season, including repairs and equipment to have ready before you go into the wild

Submitted By W Thomas Payne

Wilderness Survival Kit – Making Your Kit Before a Road Trip or Vacation
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Lost in the wild and don´t know what to do? If you put together this survival kit ahead of time, you´re going to do fine. A detailed article on putting together a wilderness survival kit that almost anyone can put together and afford.

Submitted By Shane Dayton

Honeymoon Island Drawing Nature Lovers
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Honeymoon Island State Park, located near Dunedin along the West Central Florida shore, boasts activities for a varied crowd: Sunset picnics, nature walks and classes, plus a ferry and playground. Optional photo: Sea gull gazes at the gulf waters near the shore at Honeymoon Island State Park, where there are lots of shore birds. (Check my photo listings.)

Submitted By Cheryl Rogers

On The Fast Track - Stalking 'Gators and Three-legged Critters
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During a mountain hike and a canoe trip, Raccoon tracks and a ´Gator´s footprints were found high in the Sierras... Ooops; learning to track animals by their paw prints can have unintended consequences, especially if one´s imagination reads more into the signs than is really there. Humor 670 word count - J Fox (foxtale)originally published fnasr in The Front Porch newspaper supplement September 2004 - will discount for scout related websites

Submitted By foxtale

Smokey's Lesson
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As scoutmasters, we three Jims still had a lot to learn about camping. Unfortunately the bear at Camp Wolfeboro was learning too. Humor 795 word count - J Fox (foxtale)originally published fnasr in The Front Porch newspaper supplement August 2005 -will discount for scout and summercamp related websites & magazines-

Submitted By foxtale

Swallowed Spiders and other Myths from the Great Outdoors

Do you really swallow seven spiders every year in your sleep? Should you put a fallen baby bird back into the nest? Several myths from the great outdoors are examined and debunked in this article.

Submitted By PJ Rooks