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I have looked through a lot of old books about camping, the outdoors, etc., and I have yet to find any that are as good looking as the Time-Life: American Wilderness series. Pictures and writing are both wonderful. (Ed Abbey edited the “Cactus Country” edition.) The best part about ...
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Great photo, bad name, decent album.
MP3: New Riders Of The Purple Sage – I Don’t Know You
MP3: New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Whatcha Gonna Do
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The Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship (originally called “Frontiersmen Camping Fraternity”) was founded during the summer of 1966 by The Royal Rangers, a worldwide ministry of the Assemblies of God. From the “History” section of their website:
The early American ...
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In the early 1940s, while working as a journalist at the Miami Herald, Marjory Stoneman Douglas was asked to contribute to the Rivers Of America Series by writing about the Miami River. She was unimpressed by the river, so asked if she could instead write about the Everglades. She researched the ...
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In case you have yet to watch VBS’ Heimo documentary in full, make sure you do yourself a huge favor and stop here over the weekend. And when you’re finished watching, read an interesting interview with James Campbell, Heimo’s cousin and author of The Final Frontiersman, the ...
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It’s always a bittersweet moment getting back to your car after a few days in the woods/desert/prairie. You’ve accomplished something – even if it meant walking a few hundred yards, starting a fire, then drinking yourself to sleep – but you’ve also got to get back ...
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Wired has an article about the best cars, from past to present, to use in a “snowicane.” And of course, the ol’ Wagoneer makes the cut. Read it here.
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“The Greatest Story Ever Told” on Bob Weir’s Ace is the same song as “Pump Song” on Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder. The sun is a shining, so have at it.
MP3: Mickey Hart (featuring Bob Weir) – Pump Song
MP3: Bob Weir – Greatest Story Ever Told
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In the late 1950s, after joining the Royal Marines, serving during World War II, and building roads in Kenya, Welsh-born Colin Fletcher moved to San Francisco. He began hiking in the hills, and two years later, when faced with the decision of whether or not to marry the woman he had been living ...
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coldsplinters.com - 9 days ago
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Over the last thirty or so years, Burt
Britton has worked at The Village Vanguard, The Strand,...
and The Sheridan Square Book Store. He was then a co-owner of the Upper East Side’s Books and Company, which closed in the early 90s. While he worked, ...
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Edward Abbey Self-Portrait
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If you’ve been to the Badlands/Mt. Rushmore, you know Wall Drug. If you’ve ever taken a road trip anywhere from Minnesota to Montana on Interstate 90, you know Wall Drug. (Wall Drug spends an estimated $400,000 on 500 miles of billboards a year.) And if you live in the Midwest and ...
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How do y’all make your coffee in the morning when you get out of the tent? The NYT reviewed several products a few months back and decided this GSI espresso maker made the best cup. A few weeks ago, I tried Starbucks VIA for the first time up after waking up in a cold, wood-burning [...]
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GSI
The second installment of my weekly blog on FADER went up today, so make sure y’all head on over and pretend to read it.
Youtube: Bob Marley – No Woman, No Cry
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Throughout the 1940s, Dan Gibson (above, left) made nature films, including Audobon Wildlife Theatre, where he learned how to record wildlife sound. He helped design pioneering audio equipment, including the “Dan Gibson Parabolic Microphone,” which he used to record LPs in the 1950s ...
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coldsplinters.com - 16 days ago
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In 1980, when Jimmy Carter created the 19
million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, only six families...
of white settlers were allowed to keep cabins there. Heimo Korth and his wife, Edna, are the only ones left. If you’ve ever read The Final ...
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Heimo’s Arctic Refuge On VBS
Does anyone have a Wagoneer XJ (I prefer white or beige/champagne, but I’ll do anything with a wood panel) that you would like to sell me? Or if you have anything similar…
Thanks,
Cold Splinters
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Obama’s administration is considering 14 potential national monuments in 9 states, according to a leaked Department Of The Interior document. And whenever there’s talk of turning a place into a federally protected national monument, there’s going to be debate. Some are happy ...
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Barack Obama
If it’s always a good to have duct tape around while hiking (put it on blisters), you might as well make it tie dye, right? Right. (thx)
