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Backpack Trips

Lightweight First Aid Kit

Hiking Day Trips

Horse Packing Trips (Multi-day Trips)

Horse Riding Day Trips

Mountain Bike Day Trips

Rafting or Kayaking (Multi-day Trips)

Ski or Snowshoe Camping 

Survival Kit

The Ten Outdoor Essentials:  An Annotated List

Winter Day Trips:  Close-to-the-vehicle Emergency Kit

Winter Day Trips:  Far-from-the-vehicle Emergency Kit

Winter Hut or Yurt Trips

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	Avalanche Safety in the Backcountry. Concise, general guidelines for winter travel.
	Common Adventure Trips. This a wonderful way for clubs, schools and friends to run trips.  It's about sharing, cooperation and democracy. It's a powerful concept that few know about.
	Kayaks and Other Whitewater Craft. A primer on kayaks, whitewater canoes, inflatable kayaks and associated equipment such as paddles, flotation bags, helmets, spray skirts, etc.
	Minimizing Impact and Random Acts of Kindness for the Environment. Ways to minimize your impact on the environment.  Information for general camping, hiking, river running, climbing, mountain biking, backpacking, sea kayaking, horse packing and general wilderness travel.
	Planning Multi-day Rafting or Kayaking Trips. Some great hints: organizing your party, calculating trip costs, holding planning sessions, leading a trip and arranging transportation.
	Pre-trip Meetings.  The best way to keep trips safe and avoid problems is to hold a pre-trip meeting.  It's one of the fundamental precepts of a Common Adventure trip.  Here's a brief list of topics to cover in your pre-trip meeting.
	Rafts and Drift Boats. Lots of information on: rafts, types of rafts, catarafts, dories, drift boats and associated equipment such as oars, paddles, pumps and waterproof storage bags.
	Recipes for Backpacking. Here's some recipes to try on your next backpack trip.
	Seven Useful Outdoor Knots.  Seven versatile knots that you'll use time and time again.
	The Ten Essentials.  Don't leave home without them!
	Winter Camping: Preparing the Camp & Getting Through the Night. Lots of good advice: selecting a winter campsite, erecting the tent, preparing the kitchen, cooking, minimizing impact, getting water, dealing with cold boots, staying warm (yes!), and more.
	Yurt Manual.  This is the manual that we use for the Portneuf Range Yurt System.  If you're planning a trip to a yurt or a winter hut--whether it's the Portneuf system or elsewhere--you'll find some helpful information here.

• Rivers Throughout Idaho (U.S. Geological Survey Reports)
• Selected Idaho  Rivers  (Idaho Dept. of Water Resources)
• Boise & Payette Rivers (Bureau of Reclamation)
• Upper Snake River (Bureau of Reclamation)
• Snake River: Murtaugh/Milner, Swan Falls & Hells Canyon (Idaho Power Reports)
 
No flow information is currently available on the Internet for kayak, raft and canoe stretches on the Bear River in Southeast Idaho.  However, river level information may be obtained by calling the following numbers:
 
• Bear River (Black Canyon & Oneida Narrow). Recorded message:  1-800-547-1501
• Bear River (Georgetown to Soda Springs Canoe Stretch).  Soda Point Dam Operator: 1-208-547-3697

.Snow Pack/Water Content

Backcountry.Winter Enthusiasts.  Predicting avalanche activity in our part of the west is never easy.  If you're heading out, check the latest forecast.  It could save your life!  Updated for the winter of 1999-2000. 

• Pocatello, Idaho, Southeast Idaho & Logan Area
• Jackson, Wyoming  Area (Teton Pass, West Slope of the Tetons, Teton Range)
• Wasatch Mountains (Salt Lake Area)
• Sun Valley Area (Galena Pass, Sawtooths, Boulders, Pioneers, etc.)
• Gallatin National Forest: Lionshead, Targhee Pass on ID Border, Cooke City, Bozeman, MT
• Missoula including Lost Trail, Lolo and Lookout Passes

If you'll be traveling and won't have access to the internet, here's a list of phone numbers which have recorded avalanche forecasts for the above areas--> Avalanche Phone List.  Also see Avalanche Safety in the Backcountry which has some suggestions for winter travel.

Idaho Road Reports

Grand Teton National Park Weather Information

Information on the Idaho State University Climbing Wall