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Search Results for: "nordic skate"

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Trusting Tustumena

20 Mar 202324 Mar 2023
Tustumena is the largest lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (and one of the ten largest in Alaska), three hours south of Anchorage. The Dena'ina name is reported as…
ice skating…

Putting the Shoulder in Shoulder Season

29 Nov 202029 Mar 2023
A recent fall on the ice gave "shoulder season" new meaning for me. This post is about shoulder dislocations and a reduction technique that you can teach yourself. Based on…

Arctic Circle Skate

https://vimeo.com/379680152 Hard things to plan for: love, loss... expedition ice skating. Conditions were right, and they usually aren’t. I’d done my homework, the weather forecast was good and I had…

Nordic Skate

Nordic Skate Guide Putting the "Shoulder" in "Shoulder Season" (2020 Highlight Reel) Shoulder Season: So Long, and Thanks For All the Ice (2014 Highlight Reel) Arctic Circle Skate Katmai National…

Equipment Guides

Nordic Skate Equipment Guide Satellite Communication Backcountry Food Guide Ski Touring Equipment Guide Backountry Ski-Tour Repair Kit Fast & Light Winter Travel Packrafting Equipment Guide Alpacka Raft Lineup Technical Water…

Cracked Ice, Kenai Lake

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Ice skating Katmai National Park and Preserve

https://vimeo.com/313749327 Nordic skate highlight reel https://vimeo.com/313748064 Tech Dork Edit: Five minutes of trip planning resources before the skating I spent the early winter casually monitoring Alaska's big lakes for possible…

Nordic Skate Guide

Wild Ice! online course Identify unsafe ice Find and navigate outdoor ice Safety and skating equipment Self- and partner-rescue Get more info When conditions are good, natural/wild ice skating is…

Segments and Equipment

This guide is brief, it mostly contains pointers to more information. Equipment and consumable quantities are for the bare-minimum end of the spectrum, which might not be appropriate for you…

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