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link to Complete Beginner Canoeing Guide for 2020: Part I

Complete Beginner Canoeing Guide for 2020: Part I

If you're interested in getting started canoeing, or love canoeing and are looking for some fresh tips, keep reading. This week, we talk about terminology, basic strokes, safety, and rescues. ...

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link to Why do we Split Firewood?

Why do we Split Firewood?

The preparation of firewood is a lot of work, from felling a tree, limbing and bucking the logs, to dragging the long lengths out to the trail and back home, to finally cutting to length, splitting,...

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link to Primitive Fire Building Methods

Primitive Fire Building Methods

Why Primitive Fire Building? Primitive fire building skills are those skills focusing on starting fires without matches, lighters, or an excess of lighter fluid. They can be the difference...

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Ben Gordon is a "retired" camp counselor, now working as a structural engineer. He grew up attending camp, and spending all school year reading survival manuals and practicing skills. Eventually he became a camp counselor, and taught for many years, still honing skills in the off season. Now he's writing his lessons down to pass on to an even broader audience, supplemented with some scientific knowledge gained from his engineering education.

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