Clothing for a successful outdoor excursion:

Hiking boots for hiking in the mountains or walking shoes for flat ground. Make sure you have shoes or boots with good quality breathing. Long pants or leggings. Short for the months May-September through November with a legging. Bring the two is a good idea. Sweater or polypropylene wool.

Absolutely avoid cotton is a fabric that dries poorly and stays wet and then lose its heat capacity. But if you use it, have a change of underwear. For more comfort, choose clothes made of synthetic fabrics or combination synthetic cotton. For more comfort, go for the multilayer system that you can adjust according to temperature. For walking more pleasant, all clothing must be composed of fabrics that breathe. In terms of pants, is the ideal pant with zippers that can turn into shorts or long pants to shorts as needed. For the sweater, use one of polypropylene or wool. So collect your gear what you required for outdoor activities. Save on outdoor supplys with Cabelas coupons.

In winter or cold weather, it is particularly important to protect the head during long walks. This may lead to escape until nearly half of our body heat. Remember to cover your ears and forehead. While these materials are vulnerable to frostbite, the latter, if it gets too cold, you could go blind. It is also important to protect yourself with a good neck scarf or neck warmer, this being the basis of our heating system. Arteries passing off, an exposed neck as you could cause significant heat loss. Our ends are devoid of fat, the blood flow is the only thing that keeps them warm. In cold weather, these little bits will be the first to freeze. If you are cold, do not go drink a hot tea. The high temperature of the latter rather sends the opposite message to your body, giving it a feeling of warmth that will last long unfortunately. Alcohol has the same effect by dilating blood vessels. Instead, drink something cold, without being frozen. To stay warm while you adapt to temperature changes, whether external or internal, multi-layer system will be your best ally, from head to toe.

Tips to get boots or shoes suitable for hiking:

Note that the sneakers are not recommended. They help the development of blisters and in some parks, trails guards may even deny you access to the trail with them. Choose shoes based on the type of hiking that we project to practice (eg urban hiking, long or short, etc.). Choose a shoe that offers good support for the ankle that breathes and has a grip sole. The shoe is suitable rigid. It has an average weight, offers good support and protects the ankle.

Go to a good specialty shop and take the time to try both boots and walk to the store. A low synthetic fibers (polyester or polypropylene) covered by a sock or may not contain a portion of polyester is ideal. Unlike cotton, synthetic fibers do not absorb a very small percentage of their weight in water and expel the rest of the moisture away. Walking sticks are an optional accessory, but this item is intended as a helpful companion when hiking. These could save you up to 20% and energetically downhill, they save the joints and muscles.

What you need to find in your bag touring:

• Bottle of water, allow at least 2 liters per person.
• Food, fresh fruits, nuts, energy bars, etc..
• Hat, gloves or mittens for the months from September to May
• Extra pair of socks.
• Windproof lighter, high in the mountains, it sales almost always and often quite strongly.
• One or two additional t-shirts.
• Sunscreen, altitude, ultraviolet rays are aggressive.
• Sunglasses.
• Insect repellent lotion essential from May to August.
• Plastic bag to reduce your waste.
• Garbage bag to protect your clothes in the backpack in case of rain.
• Toilet paper.
• Small first aid kit.
• Whistle.
• A flashlight.

How to get a good bag for hiking:

A good backpack will own compression straps at the waist to reduce the weight of the bag on his shoulders. It is important to spread the load in your bag for hiking it is easy to carry. This is how the load that will make all the difference. The center of gravity of the bag should be as close to the back. To do this, the heaviest elements (usually food and water) must be placed at 2/3 of the height of the bag (shoulder blades) and as close as possible back. We put the lighter elements (sleeping bags and clothing) at the bottom of the bag. We must also consider the utility. The most useful things must be easily accessible. So even if the clothes must be put at the bottom of the bag, clothes for the day can be placed on top to avoid having to undo his entire bag for a pair of gloves. It’s the same for food, snacks for the day on top or in the head of the bag. Care must be taken by putting food in the head of the bag, because this part is very often exposed to sunlight and its contents can heat up quickly. Chocolate bars may suffer.

Avoid hanging objects swinging. If you must place items in your bag, make sure you keep them to prevent them from swaying from left to right during the hike. It can be uncomfortable, because you will always feel the bag unbalanced and more noise can be annoying. Avoid overloading your bag. The weight of your bag must not exceed one third of your body weight. Generally, a bag of 30 to 40 pounds is a reasonable weight for a hike of two or three days.

The groups conducting outdoor activities like hiking, mountaineering, cycling, mountain biking or horseback riding involves a series of checks to be carried out by the coordinators, monitors and guides the group. One of the most important is that carried out with a list or list of clients participating in the excursion.

The first thing you should know / the Guide / s representative / s of a group outdoors, especially when a large party, is the number of people who is responsible and some contact details for the same, between which we can mention as most important:

• Name.
• Potential health problems (diabetes, blood pressure problems, epilepsy, etc.) And dependence on medication, including allergies to stings, antibiotics, anesthesia.
• Mobile phone number, if available, or contact phone number of a close relative.

All these data should preferably be included in a list or carry the Guidelines for the exits where the persons involved. In the numbered list group members in order to know (making a quick count stops or breaks) if they are all present.

If a person is missing, the listing will enable us to take list and figure out who is the person who is not. The mobile phone number provided that in case of loss, you can contact the missing person.

For the same reason, at least one of the guides should be in having a mobile phone, which is available to customers or participants in the outdoor outlet. If a person is lost before the References detected his absence, it could contact your cell phone drivers group.

As the organization is concerned, this type of customer list is also useful to keep track of payments and any other incident to be recorded relating to a particular group member.

For safety, all guides must have a copy of the checklist, duly protected from the weather.

Thus, when we are in a situation where getting wet is not a priority, we will have some experience of how to avoid, and thus maximize our chances of enjoying an outdoor experience.

The first is to consider the material, equipment or equipment needed to maintain security (protection from weather, means of guidance and prevention of accidents inherent in the activities) and provide first aid (primary healing of the injury or the most common injuries waiting for medical intervention.)

You have to remember is that accidents happen everywhere, and though there are fewer chances to encounter the less last march, and will be less severe in its consequences, the closer you are to a place where they can receive medical help , rescue or proper disposal, it is also true that the possibility of accidents is reduced even further if we care to eliminate as many risks as it is in our hands, and avoid all that we can not remove.

Thus, not only will reduce the possibility of accidents, but we will avoid wasting resources on mobilizing search and rescue operations to fix ourselves facing problems, had not been anticipated, may require outside help.

• Bring appropriate clothing and footwear
• take water
• Basic kit for outdoor activities
• take a stick, cane or similar
• carrying at least one satellite phone

In addition, mobile phones for emergency contact participants in the activity if necessary, you should also have walkie-talkies for communication between the guides or guardians of the exit (if any) or members of small groups so economic and real-time. In this case communications must conform to the rules of radio communication.

That is, concise and brief to conserve battery power and time, while avoiding confusion or misunderstandings. To this must be taken into account the standard language as well as ours will be a form of public communication, you can listen to anyone within range of coverage and a device configured to the same radio frequency.

Always carry a map and compass and / or GPS (if possible). Do not rely only on the guides (if available). The more aid for orientation count, the better. For cell phones, many Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile new smartphones have GPS apps and technology that could possibly help. Of course, it is clear that no good to wear something that does not know how to use or invest in expensive equipment such as GPS, electronic compasses, etc.., When we will use it only once every few years ?

In case of injury, a cane will help us to walk with less effort as a crutch, either by itself or injury of any partner who have to attend. Although there are many business models “trekking poles” that include things like handles anatomical cushioning and even flashlights, the truth is that rather than not use anything for lack of money to buy these latest models, we can use a stick either Area (million ancestors can not be wrong ).

If walking or riding on hilly terrain in which we have to move laterally, keeping the height, the stick or cane should be on the opposite side of the slope, ie the side of the mountain. This is to be able to brake properly in case of loss of balance, avoiding the fall. Of course, this rule applies to the use of axes and picks, and especially in snow-covered ground.

Here is a list of basics that may contain a first aid kit for activities on land in the open air.

• Elastic bandages (for sprains and the like)
• Masking tape or tape
• Adhesive dressings
• Gauze
• Iodine-based antiseptic
  
• Handkerchief Large (to improvise a sling, etc.).
• Analgesics.
• Scissors girls.

If you are taking any medicine or medicine regularly (although we do not touch the hours or the day for departure) should take (you can delay, we lose, etc..).

Spare clothing:
Carry spare clothing. Whenever the weather may not behave as expected, and we must be prepared. All the clothes that we carry in the backpack has to go inside a plastic bag to avoid getting wet even if the bag gets wet.

Reduce litter at the source. When preparing for your trip, repackage food into reusable containers or remove any excess packaging. This simple practice lessens the chance that you will inadvertently leave litter behind.

Trash. Trash is the inorganic waste brought into the backcountry, usually from overly packaged products. It is best to pack out all your trash even if it appears burnable. Much of the “paper” pack aging used today is actually lined with non-burnable foil or plastic. Tin and aluminum cans, plastic, tin foil and glass must always be packed out.

Garbage. Garbage is organic waste leftover from cooking. This type of waste can be easily reduced by careful planning and preparation of meals. Food scraps should be picked up from around the kitchen area and packed out. Careful meal planning will reduce the amount of leftovers, but in the event you have some it should be either saved and eaten later or put in a plastic bag and packed out. Burning and burying this type of waste are improper methods of disposal. A very hot fire is required to burn food thoroughly, and animals will dig it up if buried. Keeping food waste from animals is important to keep them from becoming habituated to people or dependent upon unnatural food sources.

Consider the words “Leave No Trace” a challenge to take out everything possible that you brought into the backcountry.