Best Tips for Enjoying the BackCountry in the RainWritten by Chuck Fitzgerald
If you spend any amount of time in backcountry at all, it will rain on you. Remember this - rain is a good thing; without it there wouldn’t be much backcountry to enjoy. How you prepare for rain and how you handle yourself and gear in rain, makes difference between a great experience and a horrible one. Here are some great ideas for ensuring your backcountry enjoyment when mother nature rains down on you. Our best tips for enjoying backcountry in rain can be separated into two categories. The first pertains to getting ready to hike, camp or whatever else you love to do outdoors. Here are Best Outdoor Preparation Tips: 1.Always check weather forecast. Understanding type of rain to expect may even determine whether you go or not. If forecast calls for severe thunderstorms with tornados, you will probably plan differently than you might for scattered showers. Check before you go, and check when you’re there. A good weather radio is an essential piece of gear for backcountry recreation. 2.Store everything you take in re-sealable plastic bags, especially socks, matches, flares, food, maps and your first aid kit. 3.Pack your sleeping bag in a large plastic trash bag or a specially designed waterproof bag. 4.Pack a brimmed waterproof hat and jacket. Always have rain gear with you, even if it is only a large trash bag. 5.Treat your tent, hat, jacket and pack with waterproofing spray – even if they’re called “waterproof” to begin with. 6.For two weeks prior to your trip, be sure to take your multi-vitamins. You should be doing this regardless. A good immune system is an outdoor enthusiast’s best friend. So now you’re packed and out door. Once you’re there, common sense and a few tricks of trade will help you get through unscathed. Here are Best Outdoor Rain Tips:
| | Your Best BetWritten by Bill Dozer, SBR Analyst
You spent last two hours handicapping a football game that is now approaching kick-off. Your efforts tell you that Green Bay Packers should win contest by at least three points. At time you started picking apart this Monday night game, stat by stat and injury by injury, your sportsbooks were offering a tasty -3 +105, BUT line moved against you while you were checking your almanac. Your bookmaker is now asking you to give up -3.5 points at -110 for a play on cheese heads. If you don’t have access to a bookie who is still hanging -3, you are either forced to pass on event or go for it, risking more than you know you should. Many of us are action junkies and would lay extra half point, although betting in this manner will eventually eat away at our bank roll. Handicapping an event and forming an opinion is only part of battle. Every profitable gambler and bookmaker knows that line shopping, and more specifically, line movement is key to a player’s success. Following path of changing odds offers an enormous advantage over long haul. A NFL bettor may follow football lines all week in order to gauge right time to strike as betting lines gradually move in and out of his favor. We have all pushed on a play where we would have won had we put more effort into getting that half point. For most gamblers, sitting in front of online betting screens all day is not a realistic option; although many of us will not hit magic winning percentage of 53% without at least tracking quick moving odds right before game. If you are on verge of understanding importance of paying less and obtaining better line, but do not plan on wagering for a living, half time bet may be a valuable option for you. Following Line Movement Halftime odds offer you ability to get a fresh line and follow it until it comes off board. Without going into another article about line movement, watching a normal line through its lifespan is something that can take anywhere from half of day to a week. A 2nd half bettor watching multiple books is able to get a great feel on which way line is headed and pounce on offering that suits his play. He may use same techniques in a span of only 5 minutes. Soft Lines A soft line is one that deviates from consensus. Bookmakers only have a short span of time to take in action, and on occasion will stray from pack in order to take bets it desires. Other bookies will consistently be last one to move their numbers which offers value when it has changed against you at most other sportsbooks.
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