The NEMO Equipment tent is the flagship product category of NEMO Equipment, an outdoors company specializing in high-level design and engineering. The business was started by Cam Brensinger while still in school, and was relocated after his graduation to its present location between New Hampshire’s gorgeous White Mountains and RISD and MIT, the Rhode Island [...]
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Catholic saints are individuals canonized by the Catholic Church, officially recognized for their piety as residents of Heaven. Nonetheless, in a technical sense, all who are in Heaven who had once been human on earth are, by definition, saints, folks perfected in holiness; this is the view subscribed to by the Eastern Orthodox Church. And [...]
During those bygone halcyon times of console gaming, when a system failed, the oft reaction was to raise one’s hands toward the sky and curse the God’s of each and every pantheon for having smote your system. There was little in the way of diagnostic choices leaving most to wonder vainly what affliction had stricken [...]
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By no means go hiking without a camping tent – I learned that the almost-hard way. I say “almost” because considering that I’m not just alive to tell the tale but suffered no injuries, either, it probably wasn’t as tough as it might have been had I not been so lucky. I and my companions [...]
The all-important first date. The getting-to-know-you can be greatly helped along by an amusement ride, and the most thrilling one of all must be the Skywalk by Zalman Silber. A serial entrepreneur who made his first big fortune with New York’s infamous Skyride, a much ballyhooed but modest thirty-minute movie of helicopter flyovers, Sydney, Australia’s [...]
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We could have brought a backpacking tent along. Instead, being young guys we relished in challenging ourselves and flirting with danger. We cavalierly enjoyed our mountaintop vista even as the sun threatened to dip, and by the time we had turned home we could scarcely go another thousand yards before we noticed that we could [...]
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Camping supplies are a necessity even when merely hiking. This is due to the fact there is always the possibility of mishap which will cause you to stay the night in the forest (mountain or desert or wherever else you might be trekking through). Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature; the weather can change [...]
A good camping tent will make the difference between fun and misery. Camping is a favorite outdoor activity, and though some folks make no use of any tent or overnight shelter at all, under most circumstances it is going to be a much much more enjoyable experience when not assailed by the elements. Thus a [...]
Outdoor toys are an excellent way for grandparents to share time with youthful youngsters. Most toys of this kind have a particular ingenuity about them, exploiting basic principles of physics to fantastic effect. Boomerangs, kites, and windwheels are therefore wonderfully educational while getting fun. A unique class of outdoor toys are yard toys, which contain [...]
Outdoor toys are some of most ancient amusements close to, yet they happen to be acquiring technological makeovers as better components are identified for their construction. Kites, for example, are a category of outside toys which have entertained children as well as adults of all ages for ages, however it was only fairly recently that [...]
Australia is a place that just begs for cinematic flyovers. First popularized during the 1980s by IMAX, the helicopter-flyover genre of travel video was brought to home theaters by a series of DVDs from various companies almost a decade later. It is in the context of such presentations that Zalman Silber’s Oztrek amusement ride makes [...]
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The Lamiglas fishing pole is no ordinary rod. Lamiglas is really a specialty rod company that’s been in the sportfishing business for more than half a century, and it is well known among many anglers for the diversity of its catalog. The organization prides itself for field-testing each concept to determine the best factors for [...]
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On average, a pedestrian is struck by a motor vehicle somewhere in the world every 8 minutes. 5,600 people are wiped out each year by vehicles and another 80,000 are wounded – many while crossing streets or intersections. Nonetheless, only a small percentage of these cases are people who spend much of their time near [...]
Tents are usually regarded as non permanent shelter for recreational uses, but many individuals around the planet still live in what seem to be tents all the time, forever. All round the year, whether winter or summer, these special structures house entire families against the elements. In the steppes of Mongolia and Central Asia, nomadic [...]