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Cold Weather Considerations – Part 1, by JM

(Note: this Part 1 of a Six-Part Series) If you live in the northern hemisphere then it’s that time of the year when things are getting cold and, depending on how far north you live, covered in white stuff. Around Thanksgiving I start planning my various winter outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, skiing and snowshoeing trips, and I thought it would be a good time to review some considerations for surviving and operating in winter conditions. Why would anyone want to be outside in the cold and snow? Because in a post-disaster scenario you may not have a choice, …

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“BRAIN WARS”: The Truth about PTSD, and How Veterans Can Overcome It’s Grip

By Tim James October 11, 2019 A small boy jumps out of the ditch with a rifle aimed at you and the soldiers in your unit. You have just arrived in Afghanistan and it’s your first tour. You’re driving down a hot, dusty road, and you’re behind the .50 caliber gun. You were trained to …

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SHOT Show 2020 Party List: Networking Events, Parties, and Meetups at SHOT

SHOT Show 2020 Party List: Networking Events, Parties, and Meetups at SHOT

It’s that time a year again, where the top industry experts and companies from the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting accessories industry make their way to Las Vegas. OFFGRID Survival will be covering the show […]

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Security Information Overload: From Panic to Apathy & the Remedy

Security Information Overload: From Panic to Apathy & the Remedy

Security overload leads to apathy. How often do you hear a car alarm go off and roll your eyes hoping the owner would disable the blasted thing before the incoming headache comes a knocking? The primary objection I have to such systems is they work too well. Every week I hear an alarm being triggered […]

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Autumn Backpacking Inspiration

Good bye summer, welcome AUTUMN ????????! Crisp nights, colourful forests and fjells, no mosquitos and the stars at night – autumn is the best time to go backpacking!

Scotland

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Can you smell that? It’s that fresh yet slightly mouldy smell which hangs in the air when you now walk through the forest, which tells us it is the end of summer. Of course also the first yellow leaves ???? on the ground are a tell-tale sign of the change of the season, and I always start to smile when I smell that odour and see them ????. But also the ???? which start to come now out (thanks to a lot of rain ???? these past few weeks) tell us: Time to start planning your autumn hikes! Well, here’s some videos and photos to inspire you to experience this beautiful time outdoors!

Cairngorms, Scotland

Remove Crampons

Loch Etchachan

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland

Scotland

I hiked across the Cairngorms in 2017 with my best friend, and what a beautiful mountain range it is! I long to go back, and with Brexit looming now is a great time to go.

Öreälvsleden Trail, Sweden

View towards Bjurholm

Petnäset

Through the birches

Shoes 'n 'Shrooms

Rapids

I was bckpacking on the Öreälvsleden Trail also in 2017, just as autumn kicked things off. Damn, did I have a good time on this beautiful trail on the East-coast of Sweden!

Urho Kekkonen National Park, Finland

That way

Up Paradise Gorge

Mountain Laurel Designs TrailStar

Lankojärvi Hut

Chanterelles

It’s already six years ago that I was backpacking with my brother in Urho Kekkonen National Park in Finnish Lapland. It does feel like yesterday, these good memories. And it’s a good thing that soon I will be back there =)

Vålådalen, Sweden

Can you spot my tent?

Whoop whoop!

2nd Camp

Shadows

Last autumn I visited Vålådalen again, and it blew my mind. I hiked 45 km off-trail with no one around (except Reindeer ????) and can’t wait to go back to Sweden again!

Pyrenees, Andorra, Spain and France

Helsport Lofoten Superlite Camp 3 somewhere in the Spanish Pyrenees

Taking in the view

Pyrenees Impressions

Pyrenees Impressions

In 2018 my best friend Martin and me paid a visit to the Pyrenees. They are everything anyone who has ever hiked there tells you they are, so if you fancy a visit to Spain, France and Andorra and exploring their mountains you should jump on a train to Southern Europe for your autumn trip!

Dolomites, Italy

Where does the trail lead?

Things start out sunny

High Dynamic Range Anyone?

Into the Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park

Backpacking in the Dolomites is the experience of a life-time. Hiking beneath the Tre Cime is magical and awe-inspiring, and best of all: In autumn you won’t meet many people at all!

As you can see, from Northern to Southern Europe, autumn is everywhere the best backpacking season. Even better, you could start next week with your first autumn backpacking trip in Lapland, and then continually travel further south as this magical season travels across the continent, colouring the leaves, giving the mountains their first dusting of snow, and making us grin into the morning sun with our hot cup of coffee in our hands!

Break

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a few projects going on in the shop

have been working on a jib boom again in the shop, in between jobs. I needed a left handed thread pipe adaptor for monday Im pumping cement 800′ down a well the plans call for unthreading and leaving the bottom pipe after pumping the bottom 200′ full of cement do to water chemistry issues. so whipped this out this afternoon 6 thread per inch acme
the jib boom is going to be very handy for loading the lathe and flipping smaller stuff over going for 1/2 ton capacity with 17′ of reach
and there is a 130 x 60mm roller thrust bearing in the bottom housing to help cary the load the bronze is just to keep it straight
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London’s Barbican Centre set to address health & safety issues in new £10m upgrade

The Barbican Arts Centre in London is set to undergo a major upgrade to address a series of health & safety corners within the grade II-listed building.

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