I received an e-mail from Jeremy at Taiga Works in Vancouver asking if I’d like to add a link to their site from my list of gear makers/dealers. From the looks of Taiga’s Web site, the gear appears to be…

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American Bushman has a video showing how to rig up an 8×8 tarp in a flash with a trekking pole and a few stakes.

Appropriate, now that the snow season’s pretty much over: I happened upon a link to the Black Diamond Avalung, which allows people trapped in avalanches to breathe by taking air from the surrounding snow and rerouting exhaled air somewhere else.…

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Wildebeat wraps up its reports on hiking poles. From his script: JULIANNE ABENDROTH-SMITH: Well what we saw in that study was as — at the lesser slope, the fifteen degree slope… some people used the poles very effectively, a lot…

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This morning for the 17 zillionth time I noticed somebody mentioned having those wrap-around-your-ankles-to-keep-gunk-out things and getting the spelling wrong. Please, world, indulge me on this one: it’s G-A-I-T-E-R. Having to do with gait, not large reptiles that haunt Florida…

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Russ at Trailcraft continues his quest to perfect java on the trail. Here’s his latest effort.