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How to Stay Warm Outdoors in the Winter
Designed for people who plan to spend time outdoors away from heated shelter
for extended periods, this 9-page handout provides a dense concentration of
advice on how to stay comfortable and out of danger.
In the handout are covered:
Cost of the handout is $5. Please use a Quabbin Trails registration blank to order.
for extended periods, this 9-page handout provides a dense concentration of
advice on how to stay comfortable and out of danger.
In the handout are covered:
- The physics of cold.
- Your body's reactions to cold.
- Clothing and equipment, with a review of products on the market at the
moment. This section alone may save you a great deal of money. - Instinctive tactics of wild animals that live through the winter with no more
external heat sources than the sun, itself.
Cost of the handout is $5. Please use a Quabbin Trails registration blank to order.
| Mt. Eisenhower 1974. Warm as toast despite appearances. |
Trackards and Companion Guide
The Trackards:
Thirteen laminated cards present the tracks and sign of over 26 mammals that
inhabit the Northeast.
Each image is traced to scale from photographs of the actual item. The cards
measure 5X7", large enough to accommodate a life-size track of the largest
mammals but small enough to fit an inside jacket pocket or a pack. They are
assembled and ringed in order of track size and indexed for quick reference.
Each card has a ruler with handy measurements typical of the species as well
as a selection of track patterns.
The Companion Guide:
The cards are accompanied by a 180-page reference manual that interprets the
information on the cards and provides additional illustrations of animal sign as
well as more information to aid in identifying animals and interpreting their trails.
The Companion Guide measures 8X11" and is velo bound with a clear plastic
cover. The Trackards and Companion Guide are currently self-produced by
laminator and photocopy.
Due to agreement with the McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company,
self-production of the Trackards and Companion Guide is suspended
pending commercial publication in the spring of 2012.
Thirteen laminated cards present the tracks and sign of over 26 mammals that
inhabit the Northeast.
Each image is traced to scale from photographs of the actual item. The cards
measure 5X7", large enough to accommodate a life-size track of the largest
mammals but small enough to fit an inside jacket pocket or a pack. They are
assembled and ringed in order of track size and indexed for quick reference.
Each card has a ruler with handy measurements typical of the species as well
as a selection of track patterns.
The Companion Guide:
The cards are accompanied by a 180-page reference manual that interprets the
information on the cards and provides additional illustrations of animal sign as
well as more information to aid in identifying animals and interpreting their trails.
The Companion Guide measures 8X11" and is velo bound with a clear plastic
cover. The Trackards and Companion Guide are currently self-produced by
laminator and photocopy.
Due to agreement with the McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company,
self-production of the Trackards and Companion Guide is suspended
pending commercial publication in the spring of 2012.
Solution to the tracking problem on the Encounters page:
Bobcats are notorious for walking along
logs and stone walls. Less well-known is that
this habit is shared with gray foxes, which are
rather cat-like canids both in track morphology
and behavior. Fisher also often lope along
fallen logs.
This trail was left by a gray fox. The track
width and the step length, both short for a
bobcat, should suggest this species.
Much has been written about possible
motives for this behavior, the most common
opinion being that snow is shallower on such
features. The problem with this explanation is
that snow isn't shallower there than on the
ground below. In fact the footing on such
narrow featurres is precarious.
t seems to me that a simpler explanation
may be more accurate. Walking beside such a
feature conceals half the surrounding area from
the eyes of the predator, while mounting the log
or wall provides a wider and better view.
logs and stone walls. Less well-known is that
this habit is shared with gray foxes, which are
rather cat-like canids both in track morphology
and behavior. Fisher also often lope along
fallen logs.
This trail was left by a gray fox. The track
width and the step length, both short for a
bobcat, should suggest this species.
Much has been written about possible
motives for this behavior, the most common
opinion being that snow is shallower on such
features. The problem with this explanation is
that snow isn't shallower there than on the
ground below. In fact the footing on such
narrow featurres is precarious.
t seems to me that a simpler explanation
may be more accurate. Walking beside such a
feature conceals half the surrounding area from
the eyes of the predator, while mounting the log
or wall provides a wider and better view.
