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Cottage or mainstream outdoor brand – a look into where to get your next piece of gear.

25th October 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Tiny outdoor brand or a big outdoor conglomerate? Pick your tent

I need a new …. (fill in the blank) and want it to be light, comfortable, functional, cheap and make me look very cool – which outdoors brand is best to get it from? I have this inner debate roughly 3-4 times  day (I am a gear head) and in recent years, finding a good answer […]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: backpacks, cooking gear, cottage industry, Footwear, new gear, sleeping gear, where to buy

Gear Review – Platypus PlusBottle and Platy Bottle

18th October 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Platypus PlusBottle in Scotland

Water containers are such a trivial item but there many opinions about it, mainly since there are always the ultimate cheap and light options: empty soda bottles. I’m not against soda bottles (or any disposable bottle) in any way, but I hate the disposable aspect of them. For years I have been a Nalgene user: […]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: cascade designs, Gear review, hydration, hydration bladder, Long Term Gear Review, Platy Bottle, PlusBottle, Swayer mini, water

Do you like being outdoors or just the idea of it?

11th October 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

like-being-outdoors

If you are reading this, there is a good chance you have some connection to the outdoors – you may even call yourself an outdoors enthusiast – but are you really? Being outdoors is hard: you have the weather, the physical challenge, sleeping outside is usually a pain, you are always hungry and tired, your […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: Comfort, danger, Hiking

When to retire old gear

4th October 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Retire old gear

Buying new gear is great – it is exciting, there is an underlying promise of better adventures and it often becomes an obsession; but with the new movement that encourages repairing old gear, the question becomes: when should you retire old gear? In the last few years (and some might say decades), it increasingly feels […]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: clothing, cooking gear, fixing gear, Footwear, sleeping bags, tents, walking poles

The Dangers of Hiking in Hot Weather (some of which might surprise you)

27th September 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Hiking in hot weather

Over the course of a month and a half in Israel, I had a chance to remember what it means to go hiking in hot weather: the constant sweat, the chase after water from the fear of dehydration, remembering to cover my self (or at least use sun screen) and the loss of appetite. All […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Dehydration, Heat stroke, Hyponatremia, Israel, Overhydration, Preventing chaffing, Sun burn, Sun stroke

Outdoors Father – Version USA

24th September 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Outdoors Fatherism - Falls of Glomach, Scotland, UK

The last few months have been a real challenge in the Outdoors Father household as we relocated from London, UK to Portland, Oregon (USA), travelling in the UK and Israel along the way. During this time I took a long break and wrote most recently about hiking in Israel and in hot weather (last in […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: blog, design, newsletter

Gear Review- Haglofs Gram Comp 25 Backpack

17th September 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Haglofs Gram Comp 25 backpack in action

Picking a day pack is a very sensitive issue for hikers, almost as much as footwear and big trip backpacks – they are very personal and can be very controversial. I have experimented with more than my share of day packs, trying to find the combination of the features and volume (22-27 litres) I want […]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: adventure racing, Backpacking, Gear review, Haglofs, Inov-8 Racepac 25, Long Term Gear Review, Montane Ultra Tour 22, Mountain marathon, OMM Classic 25

Yam le Yam trail Trip Report (Northern Israel)

10th September 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Walking the Yam le Yam

Last time I wrote about my plans to walk the Yam le Yam trail in northern Israel, despite it being the peak of summer, and how much I love this trail. The Yam le Yam is a truly Israeli classic and features some of the greatest that Israel has to offer in terms of flora, geology […]

Filed Under: Yam le Yam Tagged With: Amud, Keziv, Kziv, Nahariya

Back to the keyboard and a look at hiking in Israel

3rd September 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Hiking in Israel in mid summer

After taking a bit of a hiatus from Outdoors Father, a new project came up that got me to deal, head on, with some old tricks that had been gathering dust recently. I grew up in Israel and started my outdoors experience hiking there, mainly stumbling across the country with all the wrong gear, not […]

Filed Under: Yam le Yam Tagged With: Hot weather hiking, Israel Trail, Shvil Israel, Spring Valley Trail, The Golan Trail, Yam le Yam

Taking a little break

25th June 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Going on a summer break

If you are a regular around here, or if you have just browsed around recently, you have probably seen my post from last week about moving to the USA. As part of the move we are going on a family holiday and spending some time doing much needed R&R for a few weeks, so Outdoors Father […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: summer break

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