Beckerheads outdoor tips and tricks

Don't wrap an emergency blanket outside your sleeping bag. The condensation will become trapped, and if it's below freezing, you'll wake up in a block of ice instead of a sleeping bag.

At least, this was the experience my hiking buddy had while we were out.
 
Don't wrap an emergency blanket outside your sleeping bag. The condensation will become trapped, and if it's below freezing, you'll wake up in a block of ice instead of a sleeping bag.

At least, this was the experience my hiking buddy had while we were out.

Good point. Emergency blankets go INSIDE an insulating layer like a blanket or light sleeping bag.
 
It's always important to learn local tips and tricks to utilize what nature can offer. Learning a few foragables, plant uses, dangers (bugs, poisonous things, etc.) can save you in cases where you don't even have a knife (which sounds like absolute hell, even sitting at my comfy desk). That being said, LEARN a lot before you go out. Knowledge adds zero weight to your kit.
 
It's always important to learn local tips and tricks to utilize what nature can offer. Learning a few foragables, plant uses, dangers (bugs, poisonous things, etc.) can save you in cases where you don't even have a knife (which sounds like absolute hell, even sitting at my comfy desk). That being said, LEARN a lot before you go out. Knowledge adds zero weight to your kit.

^ This!

Just yesterday I had learned of/tried a new fruit producing tree that grows along the Appalachian trail area called the Asimina, more commonly known as the Paw Paw.

Learn your local offerings both medicinal and edible. Read, read, read! Read up on your local area, animals that live there, their foods, and what you can use to give yourself any advantage, or just make for a memorable camp meal!
 
Ok, like, you knowwww when you go out on an overnight sportboat looking for those monster yellows, or boiler rock bass, and you're hangin' out at the bait tank, kind of holding on to the edge of it to keep your balance, and shootin' the breeze with another passenger and he says, "Hey watch your hands, WATCH OUT!!" It may behoove you to listen. :confused:

Why, you may ask yourself, would my hands on the edge of the bait tank prove to be hazardous? :confused::confused:

The sportboats are an amazing asset to those of us who patronize them, but they operate in alien environs. All manner of sea creatures come and go, and some of them get mixed up in a variety of baitfish schools that get wrapped up by the baitfishing fleet, and one never knows the demeanor of these mysterious creatures. Such was the case on one particular spring morn', some time ago, upon which I found myself, evidently imperiled.

You see, on this fine morning, a "Mantis Shrimp", which is no "ordinary" shrimp, decided it wanted very much to climb its way out from the confines of our beloved sportfisher's bait hold. The trouble was, it nearly used my hands as his "Jacob's Ladder". :confused::confused::confused:

Well, these little shrimp looking guys have a secret weapon afforded them. You might call it the miniature, marine version of "Thor's Mjolnir".

[video=youtube;LXrxCT0NpHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrxCT0NpHo[/video]

So, the next time your deck-mate warns you to stand clear, pay heed, if you value your digits!! :dejection: ;)
 
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