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The Canadian Wilderness And The Baddest Water Filter Ever Built
300 miles north of Vancouver lies the Great Bear Rainforest. It’s a huge, rugged, chunk of land with ample diversity of scenery, and the best part is that it is very, very sparsely populated. Think Yellowstone minus the tourists. In a nutshell, you want to go to there.
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How Therm-A-Rest Sleeping Pads Are Made
In the early 1970s, two Boeing engineers used a sandwich press to put a slice of foam between two pieces of airtight nylon and invented the self-inflating sleeping pad for campers. Therm-A-Rest still uses that basic principle today, just the sandwich machine has given way to an entire factory in Seattle. This is that production…