Rex Specs - Dog Goggles

 

 

 

 

LINK:

http://rexspecs.com/

 

 

Meet Piper, the Airport K-9 Wildlife Control Dog Who Keeps Runways Safe

 

 

Link to Piper:
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/meet-piper-airport-wildlife-control-dog-runways-safe/story?id=37286003

ALLOY+GRIT

Pre-Order Issue 1 of Alloy+Grit Magazine Now
http://www.alloyandgrit.com/2016/08/26/pre-order-issue-1-of-alloygrit-magazine-now/

"The more sophisticated our cars and trucks become, the more disconnected we are from the journey they are capable of taking us on. A century ago, traveling almost anywhere by automobile was an adventure; drivers carefully plotted their journey, equipped themselves for unforeseen pitfalls and even dressed to get through the trip safely and comfortably. Driving the muddy ruts and cobbled streets that passed for roads in those early days would be considered off-roading by today’s standards...."
http://www.alloyandgrit.com/about-alloygrit/origin/

 

I'm in Backpacker Magazine...

TearsheetTuesday: digging this opening spread captured by Tandem’s @vertizon for the March 2016 issue of @backpackermag! #TeamTandem #TheArtofAdventure #Outdoorist

A photo posted by Tandem Stills + Motion, Inc. (@tandemstock) on Jan 26, 2016 at 3:56pm PST

My good friend Jim Meyers has a photo of his going double page in the March edition of Backpacker Magazine. And it just so happens that I am in the Photo. This is from a climb Jim and I did of Rainier awhile back. One of my favorite trips up. Nice work Jim.

How The Navy SEALs Prepare For Extreme Cold Weather Survival, And How You Can Too

Kate Siberell

Filed to: Winter Is Coming 10/20/15 4:25pm

LINK:

 http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-the-navy-seals-prepare-for-extreme-cold-weather-sur-1737644998

LEARN MORSE CODE in one minute !

 
This is a code listening tool. Print it on your printer.
Place your pencil where it says START and listen to morse code.
Move down and to the right every time you hear a DIT (a dot).
Move down and to the left every time you hear a DAH (a dash).
Here's an example: You hear DAH DIT DIT which is a dash then dot then dot.
You start at START and hear a DAH then move down and left to the T and then you hear a DIT so you move down and RIGHT to the N and then you hear another DIT so you move DOWN and RIGHT again and land on the D
You then write down the letter D on your code copy paper and jump back to START waiting for your next letter.
The key to learning the code is hearing it and comprehending it while you hear it.
The only way to get there is to practice 10 minutes a day.
Listen to code tapes or computer practice code while tracing out this chart and you will find yourself writing down the letters in no time at all without the aid of the chart.
The chart brings repetition together with recognition, which you don't get from any other type of code practice aid. 




http://www.learnmorsecode.com/

Your Chances of Dying

Link to Full Article:
http://www.tetongravity.com/story/adventure/your-chances-of-dying-ranked-by-sport-and-activity

My favorite farthest place from home

Red DOT

Erratic Rock
https://www.facebook.com/erratic.rock?fref=ts

http://www.erraticrock.com/

Torres del paine
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=torres%20del%20paine

The world is a book

A glimpse inside of Erratic Rock

Thanks to Eric Larsen

25 Years of Discovery

Several months ago I was contacted by a Production company about a video I had posted on YouTube. They were working on a video for the 25 Year Anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery. After much back and forth, tracking down the original footage and patiently waiting for the completion of the video, it's finally here.
I have been a huge fan of Land Rovers for many years and have owned several, so I think it is very cool to now be part of Land Rover history, all 7 seconds of it. Though i am not actually in the video. Jenny Mesdag (@3:00) is, and Teressa and Maile (the dog).

Thanks goes out to the two people who had the good sense ot capture the good times (simultaneously without any previous planning), wouldn't have been possible without you.

Matt Collins - in lead vehicle (series IIa)
Bri Collins - riding shotgun with the ladies.


Enjoy

The World’s Greatest Traveler

Land Rover Rally (1964)

I want o be part of this so bad!!!
Doing it today would cool, but not as cool. Those were Brand New Rovers back then...

Landy Like Around the World

If mountain bikers use saws and other tools, it's often to create wood features in the forest. Julia Hofmann used them for a different reason, though: to finish her bachelor thesis. No, she didn't assemble a series of wooden jumps and drops for school, but rather transformed a Series 2A Land Rover into her travelling bike caravan. Simply put, the German racer built her own dream vehicle, a two-wheeler's four-wheeler that she'll use to get to riding spots the world over. Below, she tells us the story of how it all came together.

Click link for Video and full artical by: Julia Hofmann

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Landy-Like-Around-the-World-2014.html

Peter Freuchen, 6',7", "lived inside the cave of his own breath"

 

"That's Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World.

Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question. -- Kottke, Peter Freuchen

"The Danish-Jewish explorer Peter Freuchen was twenty years old his first winter in the arctic and bursting with vitality and enthusiasm for the other world he’d entered. He volunteered to stay alone on the edge of the ice sheet in Pustervig northeastern Greenland for the duration of the dark winter of 1906-1907. A few other men were there at the beginning, in a stone and timber house built for the purpose, about nine feet by fifteen feet. Freuchen’s task was to go out every day and take weather measurements on the mountain, which sounds easy enough until you factor in that it was dark most of that time and extraordinarily cold, and that the wolves that ate his seven dogs were deeply interested in him as well.
It was so cold that even inside his cabin, even with the small coal stove, the moisture in his breath condensed into ice on the walls and ceiling. He kept breathing. The house got smaller and smaller. Early on, he wrote, two men could not pass without brushing elbows. Eventually after he was alone and the coal—“the one factor that had kept the house from growing in upon me”—was gone, he threw out the stove to make more room inside. (He still had a spirit lamp for light and boiling water.) Before winter and his task ended and relief came, he was living inside an ice cave made of his own breath that hardly left him room to stretch out to sleep. Peter Freuchen, six foot seven, lived inside the cave of his breath." 

From Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby

 Peter Freuchen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Freuchen

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/citizens/peter_freuchen_thats_pete.php

http://intheborderlands.tumblr.com/post/72328918927/the-danish-jewish-explorer-peter-freuchen-was

The $64,000 Question - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_$64,000_Question

Balloon Capsule Ride to the Edge of Earth

"Slated for its inaugural liftoff in 2016, World View brings the concept of going where few men have gone before to every average, untrained Joe and Jane...in possession of $75,000 to back up their sightseeing dream. The travel capsule, which can tote up to 8 passengers, spends the first 1-1/2 of its 4-hour round-trip tour on the balloon ascent. Once cruising altitude is reached, the balloon releases its attached capsule/human contents for another 2 hours' worth of ridiculously high view intakes--and free-falling--before the capsule returns from the rim of space to more recognizable airplane heights on earth."
Vicespy.

http://www.vicespy.com/world-view-enterprises/