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The middle section is a shale or slate gravel, with lots of sharp slivers. It's these that can catch in the tread and cut through giving you a flat. I've read that the tire shop in the first town in NWT does a booming business fixing flats. When wet this gravel is black. I encountered a...

I travel with a small cooler (25L 3.5day Igloo) that fits in the footwell behind the front seats. With 3 half-gallon juice bottles of ice, there isn't a lot of room for food. That means I mainly keep things like mayo, lunch meat, cheese and eggs in there. If I buy fresh meat, it is only...

What time of the year was this? Midsummer? I drove through this area several years ago, toward the end of May. We camped at Page Springs, but could not drive the loop. There was still snow drifting at higher elevation, and BLM was in the process of evaluating conditions. On the east side of...

Here's something map/compass can't do - locate a lost sled dog team http://www.alaskadispatch.com/projects/iditarod-2010/4510-dog-team-found-thanks-to-gps A mush fell off his sled, and had to use the onboard gps 'beacon' and a handheld unit to locate it

An ESPN columnist wrote on this topic recently http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762 However the editor felt a need to add this note, clarifying that this was an opinion piece, not news...

How does this home made version compare with the canned chipotles in adobo? Often it is easier to find small cans of chipotles than the dried ones. The canned ones keep well in the fridge, or can be frozen in smaller units. Depending on your tolerance for heat, a small spoon of the adobo part...

Depending on the brand, 'chili powder' may already have cumin, oregano and salt added. You can, though, start with whole dried chiles or pure ground chiles. Purists might specify 'mexican oregano', which is different from the usual Italian herb. I just rub the dried herb between my fingers...

My impression from browsing at discount sports stores (GIJoes) is that most Stansport products are low cost copies of someone else's gear. I wouldn't buy without a good hands on examination.

A good starting place for a novice is a Wick Fowler spice mix. The spices come in separate cello bags, so you can omit the hot pepper to keep it mild. It is widely available. The usual version is 2 Alarm, but they also sell a False Alarm version. WF is close to a Texas style competition...

Most paddle jackets are anoraks, especially if they have tight sealing neck openings.

While I have my share of anoraks, they may be less useful now than they were in the past. In the days of buttons and unreliable zippers, a jacket that only opened part way down would have had advantages in rough conditions. It would still provide protection if those closures failed. Now a...

This is the reinforcement that I was talking about. If I recall correctly there is a vertical rib glassed into the shell side, just behind the side window. The piece is about an inch wide, and 2-3 deep, running from bottom to top. I would not cut or alter this piece. I think it would be safe...

If you have chance to look at one, measure two things - the width, and the distance from the front edge to rear internal reinforcing. Obviously the width has to match your bed rails. And if you are going to cut the fiberglass at angle, you still want to keep that reinforcing intact. As...

I've had boot fit problems for years. Part of it, I think, is the my heel is relatively narrow, more typical of a woman's foot than a man's. For most part I've given up on boots because they are too stiff (producing heel lift), and do not cup my heel enough. Instead I stick with low cut trail...

Here's a local reaction to the San Juan Islands entry in the possible Monument list http://www.sanjuanislander.com/federal/ncls/national-monument.shtml It is content with quoting the division chief of the NCLS. In this one, a council man is concerned about more top-down regulations...

An opinion piece form High Country News about the 'trouble with monuments' http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/trouble-with-monuments Sounds like some of the opinions expressed here - the low of solitude for the intrepid explorer who can find his own way in to secret beauty spots. ' a, er...

An LATimes story about attempts in the Utah legislature to seize federal land to promote development. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-utah-domain3-2010mar03,0,841750.story A SL Tribune article about tensions between federal and county law enforcement in Kanab County...

SUWA's press release on the monuments http://www.suwa.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7925&news_iv_ctrl=1162 As to changes in how DOI (and BLM) evaluate the use of lands, that has already been seen in the reevaluation of oil and gas leases that were made at the end of the Bush...

Local newspapers (including the Congressional gossip rag, The Hill) are a better source of information on this sort of thing than national news organizations. Has Fox, for example, followed up their initial story? Utah papers reported on assurances that the Utah governor got from the DOI...

Read the AMA press release along side the actual DOI attachment as published by The Hill. Are they talking about the same thing? More from The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/83969-senate-turns-back-bid-to-block-white-house-on-national-monuments