Bear Proofing Your Camp compiled from our Message Board Here is my 2004 Muzz Elk Hunt story... A buddy of mine was right... the 'critters' got into my camp (horse packed it in a week before the openner). A bear DESTROYED my new Kifaru tipi, a Thermarest, all can food, all water bladders, and much mo...

Meditations on Hunting Backpacks by Patrick Smith Back to Essays As the founder, chief designer and former owner of Mountainsmith, one of the world s best known manufacturers of technical backpacks, I spend about 200 days a year camped out testing designs. On almost every one of those trips, I carry...

4 Season Camping Back to Essays May as well start with summer. Ah, summer. A time of mid-day warmth and mosquitoes in the high country. You ll probably want to open both nylon doors and close the mosquito netting doors. Don t worry about pitching the floorless tipi on wet ground. Either the sun s wa...

TACTICAL HUNTING SHELTERS SLEEPING BAGS SLEDS KIFARU GEAR RAMBLING RIFLE FORUMS CONTACT US Oval Stove Wilderness Alaska, copyright Susan McConnell 16 Man Tipi used by Wilderness Alaska, Photo by Susan McConnell uWin Kit by N.E. MacDougald Xing Zippy High Camp {image.index} / {image.total} This jQuer...

What I Use... by Patrick Smith gleaned from our message board, and posted here as a convenient resource Back to Essays The short answer to your question about which packs and tipis I use is that I use, or have used extensively, all of them. If you're trying to narrow the field of options with a mind...