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Adventures Mountain River  white water rafting in WV
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Above The Trees Wilderness Page
Providing information to help others have a safe and enjoyable outdoor experience. Detailed articles and wilderness photographs.

Adirondack Winter Camping
Guide to Winter Camping in the Adirondacks featuring valuable tips and techniques and essential backcountry information.

An essential piece of equipment you need to survive in the wilderness
The lightest and yet the most indestructible stove in the world. Never runs out of fuel, doubles as a heater, affordable price. When you get stuck out in the woods you must have one of these to survive. Your life is definitely worth it.

AWA Safety
American Whitewater American Whitewater Safety Code

Bill's Snowcamping Site
This is a site about camping in the backcountry in the wintertime. You can get there on snowshoes, cross country skis, or by snowmobile. This website will tell you all you need to know about spending the night in the snow, whether you intended to do so or you just got stuck and are forced to stay the night.

Bob's Mountain Survival
Wilderness survival tips from a guy who seems to know his stuff

Camp Stove
Choosing the right camp stove for your needs is very important. You don't want to go backpacking with the wrong camp stove.

Camp stoves for snow camping
Choosing the right camp stove for your needs is very important. You don't want to go snowcamping with the wrong camp stove. There are so many sites covering gas camp stoves and there are hundreds of those camp stoves on the market so on this site we have focused on non-gas camp stoves.

Chris's survival story
A hiker's true story of how he survived two nights in the snow with a broken leg. If you are an outdoors person you should read this, it could save your life one day if something similar happens to you.

Dale's Wilderness Survival
This is a site about how to survive life threatening situations in the wilderness. Everything here is based on many years of experience in the outdoors. Dale has been in some real bad situations over the years and has survived every time so far. Hopefully the information on this website will help you survive too. To guarantee your survival under the harshest possible conditions you need to have a few necessary items with you and possess a few basic skills, but mostly you need to keep your mind clear.

Dangers of Campstoves
Every year a large number of people are killed or injured by gas or liquid fuel campstoves. Some accidents are due to human error and some are due to equipment failure.

Day Trip Two
An outdoor survivalist experimenting with different survival techniques and backpacking gear.

Ed's outdoor gift ideas for outdoors people who already have everything
Every year Ed picks out one new product to be the unusual outdoors gift of the year so if you keep checking back once a year you will never be without a chrismas or birthday gift for that special outdoors person in your life.

Epidemic Survival 
In case of a major world epidemic leave town and head for the woods. This strategy guarantees your and your family's survival as long as you are not infected before you leave town. The further away you are from other people the safer you are. Sure it's a hassle and you won't have the comforts of home for a few weeks but you get to stay alive instead, just think of it as a fun family camping trip.

Finding Your Way 
Don't get lost on your next day in the field! A simple guide to the use of maps for safe hiking or prospecting.

Getting started with snow camping
Apart from basic backpacking gear there are a few additional basic things you need to get before you head out on your first snow adventure.

High Altitude Acclimatization & Illnesses
offers prevention information, a description of altitude conditions, and additional reading.

How to make a snow cave
A snow cave is a great type of snow shelter if the conditions are right for one.

How to make a snow mound shelter - Quinzhee
This type of snow shelter requires a lot of hard work but when it's done it's just as warm as an igloo.

How to make a snow trench shelter
Instructions on how to make a quick snow shelter in case you get stuck in the snow overnight.

How to make an igloo
Instructions on how to make an igloo in case you get stuck in the snow overnight.

How to make emergency snow shoes
A fast method of making makeshift snowshoes with things easily found in the woods.

International Snow Camping Association
International Snow Camping Association official website, includes tips, info and resources for snow campers.

NATIONAL LIGHTNING SAFETY INSTITUTE (NLSI)
National Lightning Safety Institute provides consulting, education, training and expert witness relating to lightning hazard mitigation. NLSI promotes a proactive defense, for improved personal safety and reduced consequences from lightning effects.

Outdoorreview.com
Customer reviews of outdoor gear

Overnight snow camping pack list
These are the items you need to bring with you when you plan to spend one or more nights in the snow. This list contains all the items from the day pack list plus a few more since you have a bigger backpack. Make sure you at least have all the items from the daypack list otherwise you are very likely to die from cold or suffer very serious medical consequences.

Rob's Wilderness Survival Tips
This page focuses on equipment that will guarantee your survival in the wilderness even under the harshest conditions.

Smokey Bear Forest Fire Prevention
Designed to appeal to children ages 6 to 10 and their parents by offering games and puzzles about campfire safety and forest fire prevention.

Snow camping in the backcountry
On this page we will provide you with the basic knowledge you need to go snow camping. If you are new to snow camping you should definitely read this section and afterwards go to our links section for more info. Even if you are an experienced snow camper we hope you will still learn a thing or two from this page.

Snow Camping Tents
Choosing a good snow camping tent is very important. You don't want to go snowcamping with the wrong snow camping tent.

Snow Shelters
What type of snow shelter to build for the night or for an emergency depends on the conditions and how much time you have.

Snow shoeing daypack list
Even if you're just going for the day you need to bring all the items below with you. You never know what could happen to delay your return. You might have to spend the night out in the woods. If you are unprepared for this you are very likely to die or get frostbite and have your arms and legs amputated. Don't let this happen to you, bring all the items on this list with you every time you go out into the backcountry in the winter time.

Winter Survival and Safety
Outdoors survival in the winter

Andrea's Hiking Trails and Nature Wilderness Survival Main Page 
Understanding of safe exploration in the wilderness.

Anthony's Backpacking Info
Backpacking is my favorite thing to do so here's a little site I made about the topic.

Backcountry camping in the winter
Special edition for gottagoitsnows.com .

Backcountry info by Daniel
Backcountry info here, not so much of it but it's good stuff.

Backpacking
This is my site about backpacking.

Backpacking and Hiking
Some info here for you about hiking and backpacking.

Backpacking Info by Steve
Hello, I'm Steve, I've got some great backpacking info for you on this site.

Backpacking with Karen
This will be a very small web page because I want to go backpacking.

Barb's World of Backcountry Hiking
I'm Barb, I love backpacking, please enjoy my site.

Bill Parker's Great Outdoors
I'm Bill Parker and you are a very lucky person who has found you way to my great outdoors site, congratulations.

Bill Thompson's Outdoors and Camping Site
Welcome to my site about the outdoors and about camping there.

Bob Moore's Backcountry Tips
Here are some backcountry tips for hikers and backpackers.

Bobby the Backpacker
Having been a backcountry backpacker for quite a few years it is with great pleasure that I present the world with this website.

Brian's Wild Stuff
Wild stuff here! Welcome to my backcountry camping site.

Campbell's Backpacking Soup
I have nothing to do with Campbell soup, just the same name, don't worry.

Camping and Backpacking with Christopher Young
Camping and backpacking is what this site is all about, please check back once in a while since I plan to add more info as time allows.

Camping in the Backcountry
If you love camping in the backcountry this is a site for you.

Camping with Paul in the Wilderness
Camping in the wilderness is my favorite thing to do, if you're not into it then check out my site and do get into it.

CC's Wilderness and Trekking Page
I'm Chuck Collins, this is my site about trekking through the wilderness.

Charles' and Carl's Hiking Page
Hey all hikers, this is Charles and Carl, we've made a site for you, enjoy.

Charlie's Backcountry Camping Page
Welcome to Charlie Roberts' (that's me) page about backcountry camping.

Chris Hill's Backpacking Site
I hope you will enjoy my backpacking site.

Chris' Site
Welcome to Chris' Site, it's a site I've made about hiking and backpacking.

Christopher Allen's Outdoor Page
This is my outdoor page that I've made for anyone interested in backpacking and backcountry camping.

Chuck Davis' Outdoors Info Page
Hey there, welcome to my outdoors info page. I've got some info here for you.

Daniel's Outdoors Info
Hello, I'm Daniel Perez, a great lover of the outdoors. I go backpacking as often as I have a chance.

Danny King's Great Outdoors Site
So you've bumped into my site, very good, pleased to see you here.

Dan's Outdoors Site
The outdoors is a great place to be, but when you're not there you can always log on to my web site.

Dave's Hiking Site
This is a little page I made about hiking for all you hikers out there.

David's Backpacking Page
If you're a backpacker you've come to the right web site.

Destination Outdoors 
Offers tips for staying healthy and alive in the outdoors.

Dick's Outdoors Site
Welcome to my site about the Outdoors.

Donny Hernandez and the Wilderness
I'm Donny, this here is my wilderness hiking site.

Don's Hiking Site
Don Hill here, hope you'll like this little site I've made about hiking.

Dorothy Garcia's Backcountry Page
Welcome to my backcountry page.

Ed and Friends Hiking Adventure Page
I'm Ed, my friends and I go hiking a lot and we made this web page to share some of our knowledge of the wilderness.

Eddy Adams Wilderness Page
I'm Eddy, this is my wilderness page with info on hiking and backpacking.

Edward's Backcountry Site
Here's a site I made about the backcountry and about backpacking in the backcountry.

Excellent Backpacking
You have entered my most excellent backpacking page, please enjoy.

George Evans' Hiking Page
You have entered my hiking page, I welcome you.

Geo's Hiking Site
Hi I'm Geo Smith, welcome to my website about the outdoors, hope you will like it.

Hiker Rick's Site
I'm Hiker Rick, I'm the greatest hiker in these here woods, I know everything there is to know about hiking gear and survival techniques.

Hiking
Hiking and backpacking on this site.

Hiking
All kinds of info about hiking here on my page.

Hiking and Backpacking
Hiking and Backpacking spoken here, please explore my site, it's got some good info you might need.

Hiking and Camping in the Backcountry
I'm John, this is my site about hiking and backpacking in the backcountry.

Hiking with Donald Clark
If you absorb all the info on this website you still won't really be hiking with me but you'll be a lot better off.

Hiking with Paul
Come on a hike with me here on my hiking site.

How to get noticed by rescuers in winter
If you're injured or the conditions are too bad to travel you may want to stay put and wait until you get rescued. This assumes that somebody knows you're missing, so make sure you tell someone where you're going and when you plan to be back.

How to make emergency snowshoes
Making a pair of emergency snowshoes to get to safety is extremely simple. It's surprising how many people try to get to safety in knee deep snow and drop from exhaustion.

Into the Outdoors with Don
Come into the outdoors with me here on my outdoors site.

James' Hiking Tips
I've been a hiker for many years and I've made this page to share my experiences with all you other hikers out there.

Jason's Backpacking Page
I'm Jason Taylor, you have reached my backpacking page, please leave a message after the beep.

Jeff in the Wilderness
Hello, I'm Jeff. I spend a lot of time in the wilderness, maybe you can learn a thing or two from me.

Jenny's Backcountry Hiking
I'm Jenny White, backcountry hiking girl. I hope you will like this site I've made about the backcountry.

Jim Martinez Backpacking
Welcome to my backpacking site, I'm Jim.

Jimmy Wilson's Hiking Page
You have just entered my hiking page, if you want to learn some new backpacking tricks I hope I can help you with that here on my site.

Jimmy's Trail
Jimmy Davis here, making a web site about hiking and backpacking, hope you find the contents useful.

Joe's Hiking World
Hello all hikers, welcome to my hiking world, it's not really a world, more like a small web site but still…

Johnny's Backpacking Info Site
Got lots of backpacking info for you here on my site.

John's Hiking Site
Here's my hiking site about camping and backpacking in the backcountry.

Joseph Parker Backpacking in the Woods
Camping out in the backcountry is very different from camping next to your car, you need to check out my site before you head out.

Joseph's Backpacking Page
On this site I will tell you some things about backpacking.

Ken Adams' Hiking and Backpacking
Hiking and backpacking is all I ever think about and now I've gone ahead and made a web site about it to.

Kenneth's Wilderness Page
Welcome to my wilderness page.

Kenny's Hiking Info Site
Hello, I'm Kenny, this is my hiking info site.

Ken's Hiking
Welcome to my site, it's about hiking and backpacking.

Kevin's Backpacking Site
Welcome to my backpacking site.

Kev's Hiking
I finally made a website, about 10 years after everybody else. It's about hiking and backpacking.

Knowledge From the Outdoors
George Robinson here, check out my site. Plenty of outdoors info here, enough to go around.

Linda's Hiking Page
Nice to have you here on my hiking page. Hopefully you will like it.

Lisa Phillips' Hiking Page
Nice to see you dropping by my site, you're probably into hiking and backpacking if you're here.

Liz Garcia's Great Outdoors Information
Great outdoors information is always good to have, you can never have too much of it, here you'll find some of that.

Maggie's Outdoor Page
If you love the outdoors as much as I do you'll like my web page I hope.

Maria's Backcountry Camping Info
This is my backcountry camping info site, please check it out.

Mark's Trekking
Hey trekkers! An excellent site for you with lots of cool trekking info.

Mary's Backcountry Camping
Camping in the backcountry is great, here's my page about it.

Michael's Hiking Site
Welcome to my hiking site filled with lots of good backpacking info.

Mike's Backpacking World
I've tried to keep this site brief to only include the most important things about backpacking.

Mountain Adventures with Richard
You've reached my mountain adventure site, I hope you will find the information here useful.

Mr. Nelson Goes Hiking
My students call me Mr. Nelson but if you're a grown up you can call me Brian. Here's a hiking website that I made.

Mr. Williams' Hiking Page
Welcome to my hiking page, I'm Johnny Williams, the great hiker.

Nancy N's Backpacking Page
Nancy Nelson here, welcome to my site about backpacking.

Outdoor Action Guide to Safety Management
Outdoor Action Guide to Safety Management

Outdoor Life of Brian
Hello hikers, I am Brian Johnson, on this site I will tell you some things you need to know before you get in to hiking.

Outdoor Safety  
Outdoor Safety In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear encounters, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has issued the following advisory to hikers, hunters, and fishermen.

Patricia's Outdoors Site
Welcome to my hiking and backpacking site.

Paul's Backpacking
This is Paul Lewis, I've made this site about backpacking for backpackers or people who want to become backpackers.

Rob Collins Page About Hiking
I've been hiking for many years and I know lots of stuff.

Robert the Backpacker's Great Site
I'm Robert Anderson, welcome to my Great Backpacking Site.

Ron Miller in the Woods
If I'm not in the woods I'm planning to go there. Here's a little site, not very big cause I gotta go to the woods.

Ronald's Wilderness Camping Info
The next best thing to being out in the wilderness is checking out this website.

Ronny Anderson's Wilderness Info
If you're looking for wilderness info you've come to the right place

Steven's Hiking Information
Backcountry camping is a lot of fun if you're well prepared, I made this site to help you out a little in that department.

Steve's Backpacking Site
Please read everything on my site, it may save your life one day.

Stevie and Friends on the Trail
Me and my friends made this website for all outdoors people to check out so check it out.

Suzy Allen's Hiking Site
Thanks for dropping by my page, I'm Suzy Allen, this is my hiking page, I'm not quite done with it yet so please give me some slack.

The Great Outdoors
This is my outdoors site, I've put together some info that I hope you will find useful.

Thomas' Hiking and Backpacking
Hello and welcome to my hiking and backpacking site.

Tom Wilderness Walker
I'm Tom Walker, I walk in the wilderness with a big backpack on my back.

Tommy's Tips About Hiking Gear
Here are some great tips about hiking and backpacking gear based on my many years of experience as a backcountry hiker.

Tom's Wilderness Site
Here's my wilderness site, please read everything carefully before you head out in the wilderness.

Tony Miller's Backpacking Site
Got some info for you here if you're into backpacking.

Wilderness Camping Tips
Here is a website I made with some wilderness camping tips.

Wilderness Info
Please enjoy my site about the wilderness.

Will Wilson in the Mountains
My name is Will Wilson, I've made this mountain website for your information and enjoyment.

Willie Mitchell and the Great Outdoors
This is my hiking and backpacking site.

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