We have arrived at a very important juncture as our human population continues past seven billion people our footprint is growing larger every day and if we continue to move forward as we are now, we will most certainly find ourselves at an environmental precipice.
It is now spring and with the warmer weather, hypothermia is the last issue on most people’s minds. However, hypothermia is a life-threatening condition and is still prevalent in the spring when people go out unprepared. So how do you prevent and treat it?
When you go skiing, have you wondered how many calories you have burned on a given day? Well, the folks at REI have created a Skiing Calorie Counter. Although it might now be 100% accurate it is fun to check out what you could burn and what you might be able to eat because of it. And after you have played around with it, get out and enjoy yourself on the sloops.
This article looks at different options for holidays for young people and students wanting to experience a slightly different vacation programme. It looks at the options for skills and language based holidays, alongside youth and adult volunteering programmes.
GPS’s, Heart Rate monitors, pacers, etc are just a few of the new and improved gadgets that you will find on any runner these days. When I started running a few years ago, I just went out and ran. I thought I did pretty well. Then I got all excited to start training for my first half marathon. As any runner would, I wanted to track my progress, so I got a watch and found out I wasn’t the runner I thought I was. It was pretty disheartening to see that I was slow and my heart rate was really high. I worked hard to change these things, but I was glued to my watch, rather than the run.
So you’re thinking about buying some snowshoes and you don’t know what to look for……..let’s talk!
Jake Thamm, President and Co-founder of Crescent Moon Snowshoes talks about what to consider when buying a pair of shoes. He goes on saying, “Crescent Moon’s main focus is the binding – we believe this is the most important part of any snowshoe, regardless of all other considerations, but we’ve already made the case, so we won’t go there for this discussion.”
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