Hobbies: Get The Most Out Of Your Hike

Get The Most Out Of Your Hike

Written by Chuck Fitzgerald

Hiking is one of life’s great joys. Fresh air, nature, exercise and good friends. It’s difficult to imagine anything better – if you’re prepared. When you’re not prepared properly, it’s difficult to imagine anything worse. If you hike a few hundred yards around your neighborhood or a few hundred miles around repparttar

backcountry, use these tips to get repparttar 139759

most enjoyment out of your hiking experience.

#1: Plan your trip. You can plan too little but it’s tough to plan too much.

#2: Get in Shape. Put yourself in repparttar 139760 best possible position to enjoy your sport.

#3: Check repparttar 139761 weather forecast. Any weather different than you expect can turn a good hike into a not-so-good hike.

#4: Dress for success. Layer your clothing and be very sure of your footwear.

#5: Have repparttar 139762 essentials. Your planning will help with this. Take only what is essential and get repparttar 139763 lightest gear you can afford – especially for longer hikes.

#6: Plan to be out longer than you think. If you think three hours, plan for six. Four days, plan for a week.

Make Your Own Fishing Decor from Fishing Gear

Written by Elly Kendall

Decorating with old, used fishing gear is fun, creative and inexpensive. It's pretty easy to find unique fishing gear to use as decorating items for your log cabin or home. Here are a few fun ideas for your fishing decor projects.

First you will need fishing gear. My husband is not repparttar fisherman in our family, I am. So it's easy for me to save old fishing lures that repparttar 139668 hooks have dulled and gives me a great excuse to buy more too! Bobbers have a tendency to stop floating after a few whacks on repparttar 139669 rocks along repparttar 139670 shoreline, rendering them useless to repparttar 139671 fisherman but a great find for repparttar 139672 decorator. If you confiscate gear from hubby's tackle box remember you now know what to get him for repparttar 139673 next holiday or special occasion!

Yard sales and estate sales are great for purchasing inexpensive, used fishing equipment for your decorating projects. Yard sales are less risky than hubby's tackle box too. Keep an eye out for used fishing nets, poles, lures, bobbers, metal stringers and other gear.

The last thing you want is your fishing decor to smell fishy. Be sure to clean everything very carefully and thoroughly. I use alcohol for lures, bobbers and such. Good detergent and bleach for nets. Vinegar and lemon juice work well too.

What type of decorating can you do with your accumulated treasures? This is where repparttar 139674 fun really begins, let your imagination shine. Here are just a few ideas to get you started. Minnow buckets make good catch all containers for bedrooms, kid’s rooms and bathrooms for items like crayons, hair do-dads, brushes and combs etc. If you are really crafty they can be turned into lamps. Buy lamp fixtures at repparttar 139675 hardware store or inexpensive narrow based lamps that fit into repparttar 139676 top opening of repparttar 139677 minnow bucket.

Make your own fishing swag from long pliable twigs, boat line or saining nets. Make sure you either remove repparttar 139678 hooks from lures and replace with twisted wire shaped like hooks or snip repparttar 139679 points off with heavy wire cutters. I have put chunks of cork on repparttar 139680 ends of each point, these look like baited hooks! From repparttar 139681 twigs I randomly tie bobbers and lures with mono filament (fishing line). I like to use cafe curtains with curtain clips on these swags because they hang below repparttar 139682 bobbers and lures. Curtains with repparttar 139683 long tabs work great as well.

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