Don’t want to bother carrying a stove or cooking meals while backpacking, but you still want to eat delicious food? Cold-soaking is a method of making backpacking meals without a stove which is getting popular with ultralight hikers. Here’s what you need to know about cold-soaking backpacking meals and whether you should consider going stove-less.
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If you are having issues with ticks in your yard and don’t want to douse it in chemical sprays, an alternative is to use tick tubes. Here’s how tick tubes work, whether they are worth your money, and what you need to know about DIY tick tubes.
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Studies actually have shown that certain essential oils can repel ticks naturally. However, it’s important to be realistic about how effective essential oils are against ticks. This article will delve into whether essential oils really work against ticks, which ones have scientific evidence backing them, safety issues, and how to make your own DIY essential
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Due to global warming, tick habitat range has drastically increased and tick season is much longer. So, it’s no surprise that tick-borne diseases like Lyme are on the rise. Parts of the USA, Canada, UK, and Europe have seen an almost tenfold increase in tick diseases over the past decade – and the numbers keep
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While there are some natural ways to keep ticks off of you, permethrin is the only reliable and effective way to prevent tick bites. Considering that ticks can transmit over a dozen diseases in addition to Lyme, it’s well worth using to keep yourself safe from ticks. Read more about tick prevention below: Keep Ticks
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My husband is a photographer and I’m a lightweight backpacker, which are two things that don’t go well together. When we started going on backpacking trips together, we’d inevitably get into arguments about packing: “You’re really packing a 5lb tripod and all that other gear!?” Meanwhile, I was dehydrating toothpaste to shed weight from my
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