Sierra Crestline extending East off the main line across Leavitt Peak Massif. The North Gap is under that cloud.
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Best Survival Kit Check out this Video for Ideas 1967 Vietnam Era Pilot Survival Escape Evasion Kit This kit goes past what most individual backpackers need in a survival kit, as we are normally & optimally carrying sufficient, "survival," gear as our Standard Operating Procedure. If not, we are in trouble no SEEK kit can fix... My survival kit boils down to my buttpack survival setup when I'm fording a dangerous river, and worried about my pack getting swept away. This tells us that survival kits are, "situational," and must be tuned for the specific dangerous situations you will face. This fine video reviews a survial-kit setup that certainly covers areas & items most backpacker's first aid kits miss, while informing us about the potential requirements for a backpacking group's first aid/survival kit. I suggest Steve's Videos for those of us interested in field rations of the past to better understand who we were, who we are, as well as what we may well need today. |
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Learn to Teach Yourself in the Classroom of Life. Excellent Observers need excellent resources. A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to The Sierra Nevada,
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Free Backpackers use digital tools and the internet to access information and share resources. This requires technology. Some of this technology is necessarily defensive. Much is potentially expensive. As with backpacking gear, I try to get the most bang for my buck. A good "bang," as today's technology can pose as many blow-up risks as rewards. I've found the best security tool is a well-designed system, be it backpacking or computing. For that reason my first recommendation is to abandon Windows ASAP. This fundamental change is best approached as a process, rather than an abrupt transition. Thus the free Windows security tools are still preserved on this list, as well as the many dual-OS versions of the free communication, media, and computer utilities suggested here. Now we've added an Operating System. I suggest you take the time to study, prep and download a USB stick with Linux is the OS of the future. Microsoft is moving towards charging rent for OS access to computing power, software, products, and services, while leveraging the theft and sale of any knowledge they can access about your behavior. In addition to the logical excellence of the open source Linux, I've found many of these free, open source programs work extremely well keeping bootstrapping backpackers online, their personal information private, and their systems safe. Better than commercial products. Or not. We report failure and success. Overall Especially Mr. Linux, the cat-herder, and his herd of developer cats! I've used these public (and private) tools to my capacity, and encourage you to find yours.
Security First: I am over microsoft. Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" Cinnamon The first thing you must do if you want security (and privacy) is to remove Windows and other Microsoft products from your computer. This will be instrumental for keeping your computer under your own direct control in the not too distant future. Win 10 rollout and features showed how openly untrustworthy Microsoft has become. Every foreign government with any sense at all has removed Windows from all sensitive areas of policy. The Kremlin was using typewriters for a while... The next step is installing and beginning to use and equip Linux Mint for your objectives. It may take some time to comfortably transition to Linux. That's why we are setting up a "Dual Boot" system to create a gradual transition to the Linux environment. It may take time to setup all the necessary software to support all our activities as we transition off Windows. You will find yourself enjoying and moving to the superior Linux environment more quickly than you anticipated, if you give it a chance. These things are hard to change, but I should have switched years ago...
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