Camping Link Round-up
I’m working through my list of bookmarks at work (having had a fatal crash of the system recently). So while I’m at it, here are a few links I find useful in the camping realm.
Primitive Arts
- Primitive Fire – Do you want to be able to make fires the hard way?
- Primitive Ways – Do you want to be able to make everything else?
Camping and Survival
- Basic and Wilderness Survival Equipment – A must-read.
- Doug Ritter’s Mini Survival Kit – Very useful guide to what you’ll need.
- Animated Knot-tying Tutorials – A great way to see how to make all the good knots correctly.
- Backpacker.com – Gear reviews, guides, and destinations.
- GORP.com – Gear reviews, guides, and destinations.
- Camping Forums – Camping discussion forum.
Gear
- Backpack Gear Test – Great assortment of gear reviews and long-term field results.
- Sevylor Trail Boat – Increase your “options” while out camping with this packable boat.
- The Campist – Camping gear blog.
- PH Designs – Design your own down gear.
- REI – Lots of good gear.
Knives
- Rat Cutlery – Great knives.
- On/Scene Tactical – custom kydex sheaths.
- – Make your own kydex and carbon fiber sheaths.
- The Cutlery Shoppe – I’ve been buying knives from these guys since I was in high school.
- Knife Outlet – Great assortment of Knives.
Of course, there’s Amazon. I really like the ability to read ratings and reviews on many of the items they offer. I also find suggestions via the user-created lists, and price-watch to find the best deals. I’ve got nothing but praise for the convenience Amazon offers, and I’ve bought quite a lot of camping gear from them (although I sometimes check things out in retail stores or YouTube to learn more detail). On that topic, a really excellent YouTube resource I’ve found is Nutnfancy: he does an excellent job reviewing gear (especially knives, and his multi-segment discussion of camping in the backcountry is superb). Give him a watch it’s well worth your time.
Feel free to leave comments with suggestions for more links, or with any feedback for the ones I’ve jotted down!
