Equipment

This section will talk about eqiupment. We plan a variety of different kinds of articles and formats, including:

• Comprehensive comparisons of similar products (canoes, lifejackets, tents, water filters, flashlights, packs) from a variety of manufacturers, with lots of tables and charts
• Discussion of the factors involved in choosing a type of product (What should your canoe be made of? Do you need a 2 person or 4 person tent? Are internal frame packs better than frameless packs for canoeing? Comparison of water purification techniques)
• Whether or not you need a piece of equipment at all: (flashlights vs candle lanterns vs going to bed when it's dark, folding saws vs breaking firewood with your foot)
• How much or how many to take
• Kits and collections: first aid, repair, bored-children, and so on

If you think you have something to say, or wouldn't mind doing the research needed, please write or email us with a proposal that includes:

• The topic you'd like to cover
• The format you'd like to take (don't just say "water purification": do you mean whether you should or not, what approaches there are, the difference between the MFC and Katadyn filters, or the cheapest mail order source of a specific filter?)
• How many pictures you have, are they photos or sketches, can you provide them in electronic form or do we have to scan them, and so on.
• Whether you can mark up your article with HTML or not
• A bit about yourself and why you are the one to write this article
• An idea of how long you need to do it

For more information, read our Author Instruction page.

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