You’ve been hitting the miles all day. The seat is beginning to feel like the padding has gone out. Your shoulders are stiff from working the wheel on technical trails and your neck feels sore from trying to lean forward to watch the front corners. There may 2-3 hours before the sunsets. Camp cannot come soon enough. …
Growing up on a farm I knew the dangers of equipment, machines, and animals. A visual reminder to protect my fingers, was my grandfather’s left hand. Papa was missing his ring and pointer finger, on the left hand, after the first knuckle. One finger was lost while bucking hay wearing a ring. The other was a …
Whether it be in your home, vehicle, or in your campsite fires can be devastating and extremely dangerous. If you are living out of your vehicle or a weekend warrior, having a fire extinguisher is a wise choice to protect loved ones, pets, yourself, and what you have invested in. Fires in the back-country can …
The most effective way to avoid an injury is to take preventative measures to mitigate those risks. One area, often overlooked, is the use of gloves. When traveling, I may have several types of gloves dependent on where my travels take me and the task I may need to perform. During this article we …
When I was in law enforcement people believed the most powerful piece of equipment I had was my firearm. That thought could not have been furthest from the truth. The radio was the most important and vital equipment we carried. From my time in Patrol, Traffic, SWAT, Sniper, and Detective I valued the radio the …
While backpacking, doing back country discovery, and Overlanding for over 15 years I have developed a mindset around safety and security. Many of these ideas come from shared experience in travel and a former career as a Law Enforcement Officer of 12 years with 10 years being in SWAT as a sniper, multiple discipline instructor, and …
Having had a lengthy career in law enforcement and spent many years exploring, backpacking and vehicle dependent travel, I have found the the two is one, one is none rule to apply more often than not. If you were never in the military or a first responder, you may not have heard this saying before. …
