Just Something Else

Pack It In - Pack It Out

After a long day of hiking, it is always nice to sit and relax in camp. You get to look at the mountain tops, smell the forests and enjoy sunsets. There are no signs of civilization, until you find a cigarette butt lying on the ground! Yes, the mood has been shattered by finding trash on the ground, but there are steps to prevent this. It is a way of backpacking called no trace camping.
 

Soviet Alpinism

The Soviet people want to know your beautiful home: they bravely paddle kayaks light Siberian rivers, they are rising to the top of the diamond of their homeland. Noble and thrilling sport - climbing - only in the Soviet Union became available workers. Stakhanovite worker, student-student, Soviet intellectuals use their vacation for a fascinating journey through the mountains and valleys blooming Soviet soil.
 

Briefly about mountains

Our planet the Earth was no time the heated ball which gave heat to interplanetary space and was gradually cooled(refrigerated). The contents of the Earth included various chemical elements, and at its(her) cooling more serious of them have lowered(omitted) downwards. Lighter(More mild) elements have emerged on a surface, they first of all have undergone to cooling, have more quickly hardened. As a result of this process three basic coating of the Earth were formed: the fallen asleep coating from granitov and basalts; an ore coating from light(mild) metals and, at last, the kernel(core) of the Earth formed by heavy metals.
 

Making Your Gear Count

"Here�s my chance, I say. A backpacking website is looking for a writer who will work cheap - real cheap. The dilemma of any would-be author, however, is choosing the right subject. So many topics related to backpacking have been well-covered, if not buried. Who needs another essay on �beginner�s tips,� �pack it out� or �cotton sucks�? Instead, because it�s my favorite thing, I want to write about gear choices. Yes, it has been done before, but maybe I have a different angle. See, for me, gear choice is not just questions of weight, size and price. My principal criterion is versatility.
 

Ascent tactics

To make a route of an ascention is means to plan on maps and under descriptions a way up to the basic camp at the top chosen for an ascention, and to plan then the provisional scheme(plan) of the ascention. At drawing up of a route initial data are given by geography of the given district (and its(his) climate): in average height of a ridge, in height and a category of difficulty of the planned top, a season and the month, chosen for an ascention.
 
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