Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Tips For Choosing The Right Place To Camping

when journey having taken steps fatigue us far from hiking of course we require rest that is enough before continuing journey. it is of course we choose place which good to pitching a tent.

There are some tips which we must paying attention to in pitching a tent:

1. Doesn't pitch a tent in area which earthflow gristle.

2. Doesn't pitch a tent too close to waterfall

3. If high wind build tent is returned stone to be protected from the wind.

4. Ditch create in around tent if(when torrential rains

5. Gives salt to encircle tent to avoid rattler

Tips is upper usually done by them often spends the night forest [by] when hiking or only camping, because they will choose safe place to take a rest momentary of they. Hopefully this useful tips.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Hiking Sticks



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New hikers often look at the experienced ones who are carrying hiking poles and wonder why they are doing so. However, they are soon able to garner the importance of hiking sticks. There is a myriad variety of hiking sticks with varying price ranges- from those made of aluminium and a knobbly pine branch to resin hiking sticks, the prices of which start from $125 for a high quality hiking stick.
Most hikers, at first buy only very normal hiking sticks, not realizing their true importance. It is only with time and experience that they realize that it is these hiking sticks that make the difference between your staying upright and your slipping and falling all the way downhill. It is then that they progress to the good quality, reliable and top-of-the-line hiking poles.
Aluminum sticks are one-up on the wooden one. However, they usually cannot survive long on a hiking trail. They function till around nine hundred miles or for an average time period of two months. These are fine for a beginner as he or she is still undecided about whether they want to take up hiking as a regular activity or not. If they do proceed to like hiking and turn into hiking enthusiasts, they would naturally graduate to better quality hiking poles which not only last much longer than the aluminium ones, but also provide much more support, thus, proving to be value for money.
A part of your learnings as a hiker is the fact that hiking sticks cannot be treated merely as sticks. They not only save you from some serious injuries, but also save you the money you would otherwise have to spend on first-aid and hospital bills in case of your getting injured. Thus, you should do thorough research on the different types of hiking sticks and buy the best you can, in your budget. Also, before a long and difficult hike, you must try out your gear, be it your hiking boots or your hiking stick, to make sure they are comfortable for you.
Hiking sticks especially come in hand when you are climbing up a steep incline or when you are traversing a shale-type foot bed or even an area where there are a lot of fallen leaves. These harmless looking dry leaves sometimes hide under themselves the wet and decaying leaves that can make you slip and stumble downhill. On jabbing the hiking stick into the ground, this motion anchors the hiker into the ground and thus provides support to the hiker to leverage him and take yet another safe step.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Doesn't Forget for Thanking Goodness



Thanks you God has given strength to me so that I can be reach top Rinjani safely.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

I Think it's Same Fun Like Hiking



Saturday, December 1, 2007

Hiking Clothes Cheap or Expensive?

Hiking clothes and backpacking clothes need to function to a higher standard than everyday clothes. That's why they're often more expensive. Shop all the sales you want, and you will save money, but that extremely expensive waterproof/breathable coat will only be marked down to "very expensive." Time for some more radical ways to find cheap hiking clothes.

Consider what you really need for the trips you have planned. If you'll be scaling peaks in Patagonia for a month, you may have to stick with the best sales you can find on the high-quality stuff. If, on the other hand, your trips are fair-weather overnighters, a two-ounce, two-dollar plastic poncho isn't out of the question.

Even on the more extreme trips you can often find cheaper alternatives. Did I take a $400 waterproof/breathable rain suit to the top of 20,600-foot Mount Chimborazo? No, I took my papery Frogg-Toggs rain suit. You'll find these at golf shops, and yes it's waterproof and breaths well too. It cost me $49 for the set, and I have used it for years, on many rainy trips, with only one duct-tape repair.

Do you like to hike in running shoes, as I do? Start watching the sales on out-of-style shoes. I've bought brand-name $90 shoes for just $25. With savings like that, I'll gladly be out of style.

I stopped getting blisters when I gave up on expensive, high-tech, too-hot hiking socks. I hike thirty miles now without a blister in comfortable, lightweight, white nylon dress socks. They're less than an ounce and about a dollar per pair.

Buy Used Hiking Clothes

The only hiking clothes I won't buy used is footwear. Other potential backpacking clothes are worth checking out whenever I find them at a rummage sale or thrift store. I've found a Gore-Tex rain jacket and North Face vest at a thrift store for a few dollars each. My thrifty used wool sweater weighs just 11 ounces, and is almost as warm as the newest models.

One of my favorite thrift store discoveries was silk shirts. I learned that they weigh just tree ounces, and show up on the racks regularly for $3. They are comfortable too, though on the trail some of the styles make me look like I'm searching for a wilderness disco.

Making Hiking Clothes

I can't recommend sewing your own hiking and backpacking clothes, but I have made a few simple things. The sleeve from an old thermal shirt became a one-ounce ski mask with scissors and three minutes of sewing. Socks with finger-holes make nifty hand warmers. As an insulating layer, I wore a four-ounce piece of poly batting like a tunic under my Frogg Toggs, to the top of Chimborazo and other mountains. Finally, without too much sewing, you can often modify clothes to make cheap hiking clothes.