Mountain Guerrilla Blog

Putting Lunar Navigation to Work The Sun and the Moon both traverse our night sky on roughly the same East to West plane...

I had a conversation with a neighbor the other day. It's one I've had a lot over the years, especially in large predator...

A good number of people—probably most in the modern, western world—have long since abandoned bound paper notebooks for j...

Never show alternate ways to tie knots! Now my head is all fucked up trying to tie them new ways! The Alpine butterfly i...

(I've had a few people ask me why I'm "wasting" time focusing a series of articles on journals and journaling. To me, th...

I spent last week in a SAR course. There wasn't a lot that was just totally new to me, although there was one really, re...

The Moon Is a Harsh MistressThe moon, in many—by no means all—cultures through history has held strong feminine connotat...

We’ve all found ourselves, at various times in our lives, embroiled in a task that we suddenly realize we just don’t rea...

I've been very interested in getting into xc skiing both for fun, exercise and hunting. I see people talking about the 3...

A brief update on the ski equipment for winter travel, plus my Christmas gift holster update.

Since Appleseed got a brief mention. I'll remind readers that, while it is an excellent intro to rifle handling and amer...

Defining Prepared Fitness Fitness can be defined in a number of ways, and has been. Outside magazine once crowned triath...

Helios and the Celestial SphereAs we’ve previously established, the celestial sphere rotates around the Earth at a const...

25 years ago I thought Gene Logsdon had it all figured out in "Small Scale Grain Raising". I still think it is a great b...

A brief look at some new(ish) equipment we've been using this winter. Because everybody goes ga-ga for gear review artic...