Field Journal
Paddling, practical skills, expedition stories, and lessons brought home from the water.
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🌅Reflections: a meaningful life
Paddling and Backpacking give me a chance to reflect on what is meaningful in my life. I have a job that provides for my family on many levels. …
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Backcountry Safety Meets Hurricane Readiness: The Ten Essentials as Disaster Prep
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November. The Ten Essentials, commonly used for wilderness safety, also play a crucial role in disaster preparedness at home,…
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🥪Pressed to Impress: Backcountry Cooking with Style
After a day of adventure, enjoying a crispy sandwich made with portable gear is satisfying. The author, a professional chef, recommends a Japanese stovetop sandwich press and a…
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🔥Backcountry Chef Essentials: Cooking Over Fire with Precision and Purpose
Cooking with fire in the wild offers a visceral, rewarding experience. Jeff Fabiszewski shares his essential gear for backcountry cooking, emphasizing lightweight, efficient tools like the B.S.T. Fire…
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Accessible Paddling: Fitness, Flexibility & Injury Considerations in Kayaking
Kayaking is accessible for individuals of all abilities, benefiting physical and mental health. Sit-on-top kayaks aid those with limited mobility. Fitness for paddling includes general health and sport-specific…
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The Crisis of Water Safety Literacy: A Professional Reflection
The rise in recreational boating, especially in Florida, reveals a critical lack of water safety knowledge among participants, emphasizing the need for formal education. National Water Safety Month…
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🔦ENO Twilight camp lights
The ENO Twilight Camp Lights are essential for backpackers and kayakers, offering lightweight, compact design with high build quality. They provide a warm LED glow, ideal for nighttime…
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🌸 A Mother’s Strength: Wilderness, Love, and the Woman Beside Me 🌿
The author celebrates their wife and mother of their child, emphasizing her quiet strength and pivotal role in their family’s life. Through motherhood, she embodies love and resilience,…
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🛶 pros and cons of greenland paddle
Outside of being cool and steeped in history there is a logical reason why I sometimes paddle with a Greenland style paddle than an Euro-blade design. The wet…
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⛵Charting Confidence: Why Youth Should Dive Into Sea Scouts in Tampa Bay
As a professional expedition guide and certified kayak safety instructor, I’ve spent years leading people through Florida’s backwaters, mangrove tunnels, and coastal inlets. But some of the most…
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Wilderness First Aid for Kayakers: Scene Safety, Care, and Help
A hypothetical paddling emergency introduces scene safety, patient assessment, changing plans, and obtaining help within Wilderness First Aid training.
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🔦Camp Lights
Candle, battery, solar, iso-butane fuel, oil burning, wood, there are so many choices to brighten up the campsite
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🥪Reuben sandwich
Tasty food options are endless with a hot sandwich maker and a backpacking stove. Check out this camping Reuben Sandwich recipe
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⚙️ Marmot Nitro 2P Tent
May of 2020 I purchased the Marmot Nitro 2P tent to explore Florida with my seven year-old son on local backpacking trips. The tech specs: – weight two…
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⚙️ hammock comfort
There are many advantages to hammock camping in Florida. Many people think that the heat, humidity, and biting insects are a deterrent to camping. That does not need…
