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In some parts of the United States an approved bear-resistant food storage container is a required item for hikers, which will add between 710 g (1 lb 9 oz) and 1.4 kg (3 lb 2 oz) to the base pack weight. These areas include parts of Yosemite National Park, [16] [17] Rocky Mountain National Park and the Eastern High Peaks Zone. [18]
A poncho tent is an extremely popular form of emergency survival shelter. Numerous examples can be seen published in books and on websites including official military manuals. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These are distinct from other forms of temporary emergency shelter in part because of the improvised use of dual purpose materials.
An improvised tent using polytarp as a fly, folded into two rectangles along its centerline An improvised Forester tent using an 8-foot square tarp, folded into two triangles along its diagonal A loue is a Finnish open tent-like shelter. A tarp tent is a single walled hybrid of a tent and a tarpaulin, generally used in combination with a ...
GoLite is an outdoor hiking and backpacking gear company that relaunched as an apparel manufacturer under new ownership in 2018. [1] Humanitarian and environmental initiatives are a key part of the new ownership. As of 2018, GoLite has donated 14,000 uniforms to help health care workers in Uganda and Guatemala using company fabric resources.
The word 'basha' is an Assamese word meaning a 'hut' but this term was adopted more generally for a makeshift temporary shelter by the British military. [2] [3] The Assamese word refers to a range of naturally fabricated shelters made of bamboo and palm materials, but it most probably first entered British Army vocabulary to mean a temporary shelter by Chindits operating behind enemy lines in ...
An Adirondack lean-to or Adirondack shelter is a three-sided log structure popularized in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York which provides shelter for campers. [1] Since their development in the Adirondacks, this type of shelter has seen use in a number of parks throughout the United States, such as Isle Royale National Park in ...
The Vintage Ultralight SR-1 Hornet is an American homebuilt aircraft produced by the Vintage Ultralight and Lightplane Association of Marietta, Georgia, introduced in the early 1980s. The aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction, although plans are no longer available.
Shelter halves are a mainstay of most armies, and are known from the mid 19th century. [2] Often, each soldier carries one shelter-half and half the poles, etc., and they pair off to erect a two-man tent. The size and shape of each half shelter piece may vary from army to army, but are typically rectangular, triangular or lozenge shaped. When ...