All posts tagged "featured"

  • Firestarters – How to make your own!

      In our world ALL seasons are adventure-seasons, and we pretty much enjoy it all: backpacking, kayak camping, hiking, etc. etc. etc.  With a new season and new adventures soon at hand, it was time to stock...

    • Posted March 31, 2016
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  • To Mackinac Island – via Kayak!

    Most folks who visit Mackinac Island get there via high-speed ferry. But we had a different idea… Ok, so here was the plan: Drive the 10 hours from Erie, Pennsylvania to the Straits of Mackinac; cross the...

    • Posted March 26, 2016
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  • MeFOTO DayTrip Tripod Review

    When I stumbled onto a deal recently on a MeFOTO Daytrip mini-tripod, I decided to pick one up and try it for some waterfall shooting. When I go backpacking, I don’t carry a full-size tripod with me,...

    • Posted March 6, 2016
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  • Destination: Angel Falls

    There’s a section of the Allegheny River south of Franklin, Pennsylvania, that is designated a National Wild & Scenic River. This part of the Allegheny winds its way lazily past summer cottages and tiny river villages, around...

    • Posted March 2, 2016
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  • Video Inspiration from Live NOW: Touch Today!

          I decided to finally tackle a video quote project from my first book that I have been wanting to create for many years now. I pulled a series of my own quotes from the...

    • Posted February 10, 2016
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  • Celebrate 100 Years with The National Park – Hike 100 in 2016!

    • Posted January 28, 2016
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  • Ready to Make Your Own Wood Strip Sea Kayak?

    During the long cold snow-bound Winter last year in Pennsylvania, a good friend/neighbor spent his days hand-crafting a gorgeous wood strip sea kayak. Most of us who enjoy paddling the waterways until the snow and the ice...

    • Posted December 9, 2015
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  • Making Big Bubbles On the Pamlico Sound

    Our friends Lee and Stephanie like to make big bubbles. I mean BIG bubbles. And to make it more interesting, they like to load their bubble-making gear onto their standup paddleboards and make the bubbles from various...

    • Posted November 26, 2015
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  • Plastic Water Bottles Be Gone! Wild Spring Water Ahead!

    A few years ago, my youngest daughter Natasha began showing me pictures and telling me about this “gi-normous” floating island out in the Pacific Ocean that was nothing more than a toxic debris field of plastic: plastic...

    • Posted November 4, 2015
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  • 9 Spooky Spaces to Explore in Northwest Pennsylvania

    Hearty Adventurers…load up your kayaks, dig out your GPS units, and pull on your hiking boots for these spooky stories and #lost treasures! History and lost locations lend well to stories of #spooky spaces and lost treasures....

    • Posted October 29, 2015
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