"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."Paul Strand
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Awesome Ways To Get Outdoors!
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How To Select the Ideal Home Weather Station
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Top 10 Ultracompact Digital Cameras
If you’re looking for an ultracompact digital camera, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that many of these models offer great picture quality and excellent optics. A good ultracompact digital camera is not only lightweight and stylish to carry around, it ...
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence
then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle-
I remember watching my boys growing
up. They would go to their Scout meetings
and bring home a pole that they had
cut from a sapling. They made it into a pole
by stripping the bark and carving different
designs into it. They would talk about
how they used it for hiking and on campouts.
Today things have changed a lot. The Scouts
still make their trekking poles, but more hikers
are now going high-tech.
Todays poles have much of the same
benefits the scouts used them for.
Hikers also use two of them for
hiking. Which double the benefits.
1.This includes pack weight distribution
to the arms, thus increasing indurance.
2.Makes keeping your balance easier
as you cross rivers and streams as
well as rough terrain.
3.Lowers stress on the joints, knees, hips
and lower back.
4.Gives a more upright, hiking posture.
This in turn will make breathing
more efficient.
5.Helps you go up those steep inclines.
Also helps you keep your balance on the
declines.
6.Dispite some drawbacks concerning
them, the advantages far outweigh
the drawbacks.
7.Trekking poles today are high tech
in design and with adjustable telescopic
features make them ideal for summer and
winter. Most are made from materials
such as aluminum or titanium.
8.Trekking poles have adjustable wrist straps
and can have plastic or cork handgrips.
9.How to use your trekking poles
is done by keeping your forearm parallel to
to the ground on flat tarrain. If you're
assending the poles will need adjusting. You
will need to make them shorter, so you will not
over reach. The opposite is also true as well.
When going down a hill you will need to lengthen
the poles.
10.Its very easy to use trekking poles. Just walk
naturally one arm forward with the opposite
leg. The poles will soon become apart of you
as you walk.
As you become used to using the poles you'll
find how easy it has become to hike and how much
faster and farther you can travel.
Check out your local Scout Shop for a good quality
set of poles. You'll also be financially helping out
the Scout troops in your area.
Val and Robin Shortt are experienced campers and
own three outdoor websites For more tips like these
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Val and Robin Shortt are experienced campers and
own three outdoor websites For more tips like these
and to registerfor their Free newsletter visit:
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OUTDOORS: Outdoor activity dies downGloucester County Times - NJ.comBy Gloucester County Times By Jim Bolton I dread this time of year when there isn't much outdoor activity going on and not much to write about, so we always have to come up with something. I did receive a letter from a Dave Hitchner of Bridgeton. |
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Bob McNally's Outdoors OutlookFlorida Times-UnionBy Bob McNally Largemouth bass fishing is outstanding now in several places of Northeast Florida, most notably Rodman Reservoir near Interlachen. The big reservoir is undergoing a state-planned drawdown to control weeds, and all bass caught from the ...and more » |
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