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Last month, I was out in the gorge trying to set up a simple cooking stove when a stubborn linchpin decided to jam. Ten minutes of broken fingernails and swearing later, I remembered the heavy piece of steel clipped to my belt. Two seconds with the pliers, and the stove was roaring. It’s easy to […]

“Is it 1% already?” We’ve all been there. You’re miles away from the nearest wall outlet, the sun is setting, and your phone starts blinking red. For me, it happened last winter during a hike in the backwoods of Ohio. My GPS died, and for a solid hour, I was just a guy wandering in