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Equipment Spotlight: Adventure Medical Kits Ultralight Watertight PRO<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Over the last 19 years I’ve led nearly 40 week-long service projects with Wilderness Volunteers in public lands all over the United States. I’ve used a number of different first aid kits to deal with scrapes, cuts, blisters, etc. over this time but hands down my current favorite is the Ultralight Watertight PRO from Adventure Medical Kits.<\/div>\n
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The exterior yellow rip-stop nylon zippered bag helps keep the contents dry even when working in rainy and wet conditions. The interior bags (3 Super stretch DryFlex™\u00a0bags and 1 smaller rip-stop nylon bag) make doubly sure the kit contents stay dry while still being lightweight (~\u2153-\u00bd oz), and durable. (Having opened up kits before for a bandage only to find the paper soaked I can’t say how much I appreciate medical kits that keep the insides dry even when your backpack gets wet.)<\/div>\n

Keep It Clean: On The Importance of Cleaning Your Gear<\/a><\/h3>\n
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One of the most important (and likely most forgotten) parts of being a responsible outdoor adventurer is cleaning your gear before and after each adventure.<\/p>\n

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While exploring our nation’s wild lands helps us gain appreciation for them it can also put them in added danger. Invasive weeds, insects, and diseases can be introduced to new areas via shoes, clothing, camping gear, boats, vehicles, firewood, etc.<\/p>\n

INTERN BLOG SERIES: A Necessity Not My Own<\/a><\/h3>\n

BY ALIX SCHOBACK \/\/ 2019 WILDERNESS VOLUNTEERS INTERN<\/h2>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019re paying an organization to go do manual labor for a week? Shouldn\u2019t they be paying you?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The words of my grandpa, who had been fairly confused about my summer internship with Wilderness Volunteers, echoed in my head. I sat on a rock beside the trail we were working on in the Sawtooth Wilderness; we were three miles from our destination of the wilderness boundary, and 5 miles from our camp at McGown Lakes. I looked out at the mountainside across from me, littered with dead trees \u2014 some strewn across the ground, some still upright \u2014 from a ten-year-old burn. My tool of choice for the day, a grubhoe, lay at my feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the fourth day of our project, and I had already hiked nearly forty miles. In all honesty, I was exhausted. Consequently, I was frustrated with myself. This was supposed to be what I loved, what I cared about \u2014 work I considered to be of the utmost importance. Still, for a second, my grandpa\u2019s words resonated with me. I felt the slightest sense of injustice, then shame for allowing the emotion to even enter my head. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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