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Basic Tips for Surviving Your First Time in the Wilderness

Before you pick your first campsite and start navigating through the vast Australian wilderness, it’s important to plan in advance all the essentials you will need to take in your backpack so that you can survive. Some survivalist experts like to tell newbies to just rough it up but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should suffer on your first trip. Although you’re going to become better as you put more excursions under your belt, your first trip into the wilderness doesn’t have to be a complete disaster. Here are a few tips to help you prepare.

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Stay Warm and Cozy Up on the Slopes – Our Tips for Choosing Thermal Socks

For skiers, buying thermals socks is just as important as choosing any other piece of the rest of their apparel. Just like ski jackets, pants and boots, ski socks are an integral part of your set-setup, affecting your comfort and performance up on the slopes. Getting them right can make a world of difference between a fun day outdoors and a bad skiing experience resulting in wet and numb/cold feet. Thanks to technological advancements, today ski socks are far more specialized than they were years ago, which means wearing your normal socks is not a good idea. If you’re about to go on a ski clothing shopping spree, here are some tips to help you out decide what kind of socks for skiing you should buy to maximize your comfort and performance.

A Home Away from Home: Our Tips for Selecting the Right Camping Tent
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A Home Away from Home: Our Tips for Selecting the Right Camping Tent

Considering how Australia has a pleasant climate and is home to some of the world’s most beautiful outdoor scenery, it’s no wonder that Aussies love camping. But we also love the comfort of our homes, right? And the outdoors can often be rough, cold and wet. However, with the right tent you can stay warm and dry, and enjoy everything nature has to offer. The following tips can help you pick an outdoor home that meets all your essential needs.

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4WD Awnings – Our Tips on Getting One to Match Your Vehicle

Every now and then we all need to take a break from the concrete jungle and just lose ourselves in the divinity of nature. If you are planning your next camping adventure and don’t want to embark without knowing that you’ll have the comfort of a spacious awning, you have probably already started the – not quite easy – search for the ideal awnings for your ride. Size, material, coating, price – what matters most? Self-supporting or not? Inflatable or conventional? In today’s blog post, I’ll provide some information and guidelines to help you find the best awnings for 4×4 vehicles. Let’s get to work.

Our Tips for Choosing the Best Groundsheet for Your Tent
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Our Tips for Choosing the Best Groundsheet for Your Tent

So you’ve just made a hefty investment in a quality tent and you are looking for a way to ensure that it stays well protected for as long as possible. Here’s a smart idea – buy a groundsheet. These tent accessories were made to protect the floor of your outdoor home against everything that nature may throw at it. They may not be as cheap as you’d hope, but they are certainly worth it. When faced with a damage of any kind, you will only need to replace the groundsheet instead of the entire tent. How’s that for convenience?

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Our Tips for Having a Comfortable Sleep When Camping

Camping is a great way to commune with nature. It is an up close and personal experience that gives the opportunity to break the urban habits and enjoy the wilderness. However, this doesn’t mean that you should give up the comfortable sleeping. Luckily, there are a number of ways to ensure that sleeping in a tent under the sky can be as pleasant as being in your home bed. All you need is the right sleeping gear. If you are not sure how to do it, take a look at the following tips.

First of all, you need to choose the right sleeping gear camping solutions, and you should start from the basics: a sleeping bag, sleeping pad and pillows. Before choosing a sleeping bag, you should have in mind the temperature and the climate of the place you are going camping so that you can choose the appropriate bag style and temperature rating. There are different types of sleeping bags you can choose from such as the mummy type (a narrow shaped bag ideal for maximum insulation and minimum volume and weight), the semi-rectangular type (with a tapered cut that provides efficient heat retention) and the type with rectangular shape (this one provides a lot of space and is the perfect choice for warmer climates). You can unzip some of them to use as a quilt on milder nights.

Camping After Dark: Our Tips for Choosing the Right Camping Lights
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Camping After Dark: Our Tips for Choosing the Right Camping Lights

If you ask me, the best part of camping is when the sun goes down. I simply love gathering around the campfire. The stories get scarier, the s’mores sweeter and the surroundings even more mysterious. But unfortunately, our vision gets significantly worse in the dark. As the glow of the campfire and the twinkling of the stars are simply not enough, it’s important to choose the right camping lights to stay safe and keep all the fun going.