Hi folks,
While the water is soft where I live, and it will be a while until the winter trekking field season starts around here, its time to update the main content site (those blue tabs on top that have the sections and subsections of our Wintertrekking.com "E-book"). I have learned many new things, and have accumulated more images which can help to expand our main content site on the amazing world of winter travel and camping out in the deep cold in full comfort and safety.
But I am also looking for your input with text and images. Our dynamic discussion forums contributed by you, are filled with an impressive array of topics and images. I would like to distill some new nuggets of information from these contributions, and add it to the main content section "E-book". Many contributors have already suggested several topics and sub-topics be added, and I have been keeping a running list of these.
I am inviting you to contribute to the main content text and/or images. I would be the editor, and fit edited text pieces and images in where it adds to the content and flow of the main site sections and subsections of the E-book. (Note: All submitted material would become the property of Wintetrekking.com to use on the website, with all rights reserved. But we would ID your photo with your name, and burn it into the image so that it always is recognized. There would be no compensation, money, shares, or rights for the submitted material. We are still a small operation and don't have the resources for compensation, so it would be your free contribution to the community here
).
Think about it over the rest of the summer, and if you have an idea for a text piece and/or photo, then please PM me in
September and we can discuss the material, and if we can use it, then we can arrange for emailing. I say September because I will be "gone fishing" until then.
The following is a list of topics and information for addition that I have been keeping a running list on. If you have additional ideas for material you have to add, or would like to see added, please add your ideas to this thread. Maybe you or someone could put some text and photos together over the summer. We don't have the capability for embedded videos yet, but we will work on that. But we can link to Youtube and other video sites that you might create to address a particular topic.
I will put a sticky on this thread and post it at the top in the "General Discussion" forum. This thread can also serve as the new running list of ideas for additions.
New Topics to Add to Main Content (in no particular order):• Falling through the ice: Fire starting systems with freezing hands. E.g. fire steel on waterproofed super cotton ball, or fire starting tabs (home made or commercial); carried waterproofed tinder bundles; waterproofed matches and striker.
• Winter Bushcraft skills: carrying less on your sled, more in your head, and using the natural materials around you. I think this should be infused throughout the topics on our website. So look through the sections and subsections, and I am sure you would have a bushcraft skill to add.
• Snowshoe bindings.
• Reflector logs designs on open fires.
• Pot hangers for open fires (I know there is tons out there already on the bushcraft channels, but not many for the winter season I have seen where the ground is frozen, and none that deal with the issue of obstruction around the fire with tripods and multiple people trying to dry out, and the shifting smoke issue. Legged grills a better option for groups?
• Face protection: hoods, fur trim, tunnel hoods with wire.
• Fogging prescription glasses.
• Tarp shelters.
• Adding more boot examples and links.
• Adding more clothing examples (commercial and home made), and links.
• Woodstove heat shields.
• Woodstove snow melt-back and fire hazards.
• Pulks and pole harness systems.
• Sled packing systems.
• Mitt harness.
• Wooden toboggans – base prep and waxing.
• More hot tent examples and heating systems, (e.g. Arctic Oven).
• Alpine techniques, (e.g. Igloo Ed’s excellent "powder shooting" with a pulk in tow).
• Alpine and above tree line cold camping.
• Lake and river Ice dynamics and hazards: currents, pressure ridges, grades of ice, etc.
• Snowshoes: more on design and function of both natural/traditional, and synthetic.
• More on back country flat land touring skis, boots and bindings. (There is a huge amount of downhill material on the web for telemark and AT, but not much on flatland gear for making distance and hauling sleds. We also need a section on Berwins from an experienced user, and I know we have several Berwin aficionados here.
Please add your ideas...
