Technology in the back country

While some purest would say that one of the most important and attractive allures of the great out doors is the fact that you can disconnect from the ever enslavement of the digital age. From my experience, I have seen that there is a great advantage to being a tech savvy outdoorsman.

there are however some rule to live by when carrying tech into the wilderness, you must never bring anything you cannot live without, always waterproof your gear, and pad pad pad. I would recommend that before taking any tech out that you back up data to a stationary device at your home base.
now that we have gotten past the nitty, gritty, rules and such lets move on to the fun stuff.

Ipads!!

yes your loving enduring tablet of awesomeness that makes all things fun and large screened. the Ipad a has some useful features.
One of the best features of the Ipad is the fact that the touch screen is so large that it can be utilized with mapping programs like the Green trails maps app, which is the best app i have ever used for topographic maps, with highlighted trails. You can purchase digital copies for a fraction of the hard copies. Also, I am personally in love with road mapping functions of the Ipad.

I would highly recommend that that you get yourself a LifeProof case, without one your pretty much sacrificing your precious Apple tablet; I for one love my Ipad and I want to keep it around for as long as possible!


Solar charger 

Solar chargers are an essential for longer trecks in the backcountry. this is really self explanatory process, sun plus charger equals happiness.


















DSLR cameras

In my Previous post I pretty much raved about my Nikon D90. I you are going into the backcountry you might consider bring in your DSLR with you to make a take some killer shots.you could even make some extra money, take a moment to read my How to make money with photography article. 

One problem with taking you DSLR is that they're a little bit heavy for back packing but I find it absolutely worth it.  

Heated jackets 

Heated jackets have become recently become a reality. I have yet to test this product but once I have raised enough funds for the next product testing adventure, I will eagerly be trying out this product line! My hope is that this will solve the problem that our cold feet partners struggling with for quite some time :) 

I will keep expanding this blog post as long I am a exploring and adventuring. Hopefully my testing will be of some use to you. :)