Outdoor Adventure Tips - All Comments

re: Famous Travel Guru, Frommer; Under-Visited but Fascinating Sites (photo)

Stu Marks — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:21:33 GMT

We often buy Frommer's Guides. We own several of them including foreign travel. We find them very up to date. And, what we do or where we go often weighs heavily on what Frommers has to say about it.

re: Outdoor Chimeneas – Great but smoky. Here is your solution - a flu extender.

Stu Marks — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:18:52 GMT

We have the same chimenea on our back patio. Out parents brought it all the way from Arizona for us as a gift. We have only used it once and it definately is a real back yard smoker. The extender idea looks like a good one. I'm going to try it. The flames shooting out the top are a little scarry looking in the photo, but the fuel supply can't be big enough to sustain that for very long.

re: How to avoid a bear attack

Mike Pudlo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:37:39 GMT

In my the past years of attending America’s finest National Parks I’ve seen some careless park visitors when it comes to wildlife viewing. During one of the trips to Yellowstone National Park we were filming the Bear Patrol which monitors and controls not the bears but the park visitors. As soon as one visitor gets out of the car and walks down the road to get closer everyone else follows and forms a crowd. There were two rangers on hand to manage the crowd, one would try to predict the path of the bear and the other was making sure the crowd of park visitors stayed out of the road and harms way. The bears are not the only thing you got to worry about in Yellowstone there are elk which are know for becoming very aggressive during rut season and the largest free roaming heard of buffalo. Wildlife viewing can be a very thrilling experience but I doubt it would ever compare to being attacked by a wild animal. The medical bills could have bought you a very nice digital camera, telephoto lens, color printer, laptop, SD cards, okay so you get my point. And if you don’t then you should probably just stay in your car!

To listen to my famous backcountry songs and some tips on bear safety check out when Adventure-Crew takes a hike in Yellowstone’s Backcountry.

Boy survives bear attack

Outdoor & National Park News — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:23:00 GMT

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. | An 8-year-old Florida boy scrambled up a

Cam Auctions » Blog Archive » Tip Corner; No Gear Left Behind

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re: Tip Corner; No Gear Left Behind

Stu Marks — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:28:19 GMT

Yes, Jimeee; it is easy to be compelled to leave one's gear in the car. Thinking that the car is a secure place for one's expensive camera gear comes to a screeching halt when one returns to the car after a kayaking expedition to find the window smashed in with a rock.

This happened to Clint Pollock, President of Adventure-Crew last year. Fortunately, all of the camera gear was in use on the kayaks at the time. The wallet full of credit cards was quickly dealt with, and some other more minor gear had been stolen.

When traveling, the most secure location for your camera is in your hand, with the strap firmly wrapped around the wrist or across the body.

re: Tip Corner; No Gear Left Behind

jimeee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:13:17 GMT

Good tip on taking proper care of your camera. It is very easy to sometimes leave ones camera in the car especially if you put it in the trunk when you might leave the car to go shopping. This is an especially good tip if one is living here in the moist or should I say WET Pacific Northwest...haha...

Jim

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re: The Monopod; Essential Equipment for the Serious Shooter

Marco Corsi — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:32:41 GMT

I always find your articles on this website to be informative and interesting. As a result, I usually leave the site with my travel appetite whetted once again to explore wherever I can.

Thanks!

re: The Monopod; Essential Equipment for the Serious Shooter

April Cuozzo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:10:36 GMT

Good article. Very informative.

re: The Monopod; Essential Equipment for the Serious Shooter

Christal Burch — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:39:26 GMT

Enjoyed your monopod article! Sports shots are definitely tricky. You explained the benefits of shooting with the monopod in nice details and gave an honest example of it's weakness. Wish I had read this article when my son was still playing on a street hockey team! But now he's into snow boarding and since I don't snow board, it's to late! Oh well.

re: Eating On The Trail

Anh Wu — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:41:53 GMT

Great tips! Keep up your good work.

re: Encountering Bears in the Wild- A Few Simple Tips

Mike Pudlo — Tue, 09 May 2006 15:56:09 GMT

Bear safety is a must in the back country of any park... Check out the Yellowstone Backcountry video when Clint and Gary demonstrate some bear safety tips and Tom Clover of Wilderness Trails Inc tells some interesting bear facts.

Here's the link...

Adventure-Crew's DVD of Yellowstone National Park is another great way to learn how to be safe around wildlife.

re: Grilled Pizza-great for your first night out!

Stu Marks — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:23:01 GMT

More tips from "Canyon Man" Stu, the outdoor chef; What a great recipe. We tried this at home first, with the luxury of an outdoor gas grill. I can't wait to try it on the trail. We've decided to buy the veggies fresh, right before leaving town for the camp site. This will allow us to enjoy the fresh grilled peppers and onions. Other tips that might help are remembering all of the great innovative kitchen aids that are out there today. We picked up a roll up cutting board from a kitchen supply store in the mall a few years ago. It's that hard, white nylon stuff, but in a thinner format that rolls up nicely. We could just chop up veggies and cook the meat before hand, but, hey, I am Canyon Man!! So, I want to do it ALL outdoors! Bugs in the grease and everything. Also remember proper waste handling etiquette. Safety tips include safe knife packing. My favorite kitchen chopping knife might not be the safest thing to be packed in a 3-day pack, so proper sheathing, whether conventional or provisional is necessary, here.

re: The Essentials for Backpacking

Mike Pudlo — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:45:59 GMT

And don't forget the 'deet' when in the backcountry. While filming in the backcountry of Yellowstone I was attached by huge and I do mean HUGE bugs, if it wasn't for the deet and my quick hand/eye coordination I would have been eaten alive. Luckily the shoot was a success offering a hike through the backcountry to an amazing waterfall and even learn about bear safety. If you haven't seen the video, go check it out... Pudlo