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- Mountain Expedition Companies List of companies including their destinations
- AlpLinks: list of manufacturers and retailers Selected links for the Alps
- Boots Illustrated guide for choosing your hiking boots
- Clothing Illustrated guide
- Equipment according to the Manchester University Hiking Club Presumably suited for British conditions
- Equipment for the Mountaineer Advice for the newcomer to the great outdoors
- Equipment Guide for Nordic Ski Sports Complete guide for cross-country and ski tour equipment
- Gearfinder I can’t tell you whether you can trust them. But the interface is nice and leads you to your equipment of your choice.
- Gorp Gear buying guide: backpacks, tents, climbing gear
- Joe Mehaffey and Jack Yeazel’s GPS Information Website Best GPS Site, Long Link List
- Joe’s Ultralight Backpacking "Life’s short, hike accordingly" - "a good place to get your feet wet, get some ideas, see actual gear lists that work for me"
- Michael’s Ultralight Backpacking Page Hard to decipher if you are not a resident of the US. Give it a try anyway
- Pete’s Gear Guide Pete’s opinions on some aspects of equipment: poles, packs and down
- Swedish boots - läderkängor I use them myself. Ideal in Scotland, Scandinavia, - and! - for cross country skiing. (Swedish)
- Altitude Illness NOLS page.
- Cold Injuries NOLS page.
- First aid equipment American
- Heat Related Illnesses & Fluid Balance Outdoor Action Guide, Princeton university.
- High Altitude Medicine Guide oriented towards physicians
- High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses Outdoor Action Guide, Princeton university.
- How to lift your backpack Easy going instructions, including four pictures
- Midges !! You can beat them! From prevention to cure
- Mountain Medicine a Dutch site about medical problems climbers meet (Dutch)
- Steve & Judy’s Altitude & Acclimatization Page Thorough discussion and links to anywhere else.
- Tick Remover kind of pen-like apparatus, for sale (commercial)
- Tick-Borne Illnesses Everything you want to know about these little beasts and the illnesses they carry.
- UIAA Mountain Medicine Centre Mountain sickness, frostbite, first aid etc. (UK)
- Hostels Database The advertisements on the page are not very promissing. The listings are quit complete, I suppose, but the information is poor.
- Huts in Austria
- Huts in Canada Alpine Club of Canada
- Huts in France Refuges en France
- Huts in German Alps
- Huts in Greece Good list
- Huts in Netherlands: Campinghuts or Trekkershutten
- Huts in Norway
- Huts in Slovenia alphabetically and by mountain range (Slovenian)
- Huts in Sweden (Swedish)
- Huts in Switzerland Swiss réfuges
- Huts in the Alps Not only the Italian huts, also the German, French, Swiss, Austrian etc.
- Huts in the French National Parc of the Pyrenees Refuges dans le Parc National
- Huts in the Spanish Pyrenees Good listing, lot of info per hut (Spanish)
- Huts in the Tatra, Slavakia and Poland (German)
- Huts worldwide! Very good. alphabetical listing of hundreds of huts, including links to their sites. (it’s in German, though)
- New Zealand Alpine Huts
- Refuges and bivouacs of Italy All the Italian huts
- Swiss Alpine Huts Another list of huts in Switzerland
- Worldwide Hostels Official page of the IYHF
- Youth Hostels worldwide All the Youth Hostels Organisations on WWW
- Knots or Noeuds, in French. Very clear drawings. (French)
- Knots in pictures Some of the most used knots made easy.
- Knots on the Web Incredible
- Ropers Knots Page The knot site on real knots in rope. Instructions
- Alfabetic list of 250 manufacturers of outdoor equipment European market
- Climbing Equipment & Clothing Some 200 manufacturers
- Equipment manufacturers
- Jims Mountaineering Links A very complete list of Manufacturers (worldwide), Retailers (UK) and University hiking clubs (UK) (James Ashfield)
- Nordic Ski Equipment List of Manufacturers
- Atlas of the Netherlands Complete map of the Netherlands
- Map & Travel Specialty Retailers who are members of the International Map Trade Association (dead link??)
- Oddens’s Bookmarks The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping, (if you don’t find it here, you won’t find it anywhere)
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Political and relief maps online
- Pied a Terre they sell an incredible number of maps for hikers and cyclist. The catalogue is online but is still rudimentary. (Dutch)
- Reisboekhandel Dutch circle of map- and booksellers for travelling (Dutch)
- TopoWeb Topographical maps, biased to USA, but links to other countries
- A Gram Hunter’s Packing List Save 30% of every item you take with you!
- Allmän packlista Everymans Packing list (?). Ideal for Lappland. (Swedish)
- Alpine tours Thorsten Liborius personal equipment list, with pictures and weights of every item! (German)
- Another packing list but this one will overload you.
- Bushwalking Pack Checklist. (Winter) for the Australian bush
- Desert hiking gear American
- Equipment for 10-15 days walking in French mountains French
- Equipment for hiking in French mountains French
- Equipment for North Sweden/Lappland in Swedish
- Equipment for Swedish Lappland Equipment (Swedish)
- Equipment for Tasmania, Australia equipment list for extended overnight walks. Includes a clothing guide.
- Equipment for tours in Lappland - Vår utrustning If you read Swedish, this list might be particularly useful
- Food for Swedish Lappland - Fjällmat Food for in the Swedish Mountains (Swedish)
- Nepal Trek Packing list
- Nordic ski
- Outdoor Action Packing list Warm weather, moderate weather and cold weather. First aid equipment. Group equipment. American
- Outdoor tips for North and Middle-Sweden The author really has done his best to give you all his knowledge. You should understand German, though.
- Pack list for North Sweden
- Steve & Judy’s Mountain Clothing Page
- Tet’s Mountaineering Tips Equipment for day hiking, backpacking and snowcamping
- Walking in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg Easy to print packing list (Dutch)
- Winter Camping Personal Equipment List American
- About Avalanches Very clear information on avalanche risk and what to do
- Climbing dictionary Very useful listing: definitions of American and English climbing terms and translations of those terms in other languages
- Climbing Glossary A comprehensive American and English dictionary
- Compass reading Basic Navigation techniques, illustrated
- Compass tutorial Excellent introduction.
- Coordinate Systems Overview Overview of coordinate systems for georeferencing
- Cross-Country Ski World Cross-country technique
- Health and Security of trekkers and hikers (Based on Cape Verde) Traveling in poor countries and trekking in desert-mountains without any surface water and the likelyhood of clouds blurring visibility is not without danger. (German)
- How to use a compass Very good instruction page, including lessons, links and so on
- Les Fiches Techniques : Randonnée Hiking Technique. Essentially French, but worth the trouble of reading (French)
- Maps and Map Reading Excellent, short introduction if you try to grasp the logic op topographical maps. Including map symbols used in the UK.
- Navigation Backpacker’s page. Using compass, map, everything together etc. Printable versions of tutorials.
- Navigation with a map and compass Excellent short introduction.
- Protecting from the elements. Se protéger des éléments naturels. French site. Worth the trouble of translating. (French)
- Snow Shelters How to build them; easy ones and difficult types (no scetches however)
- Sun and Moon Data for One Day Obtain times of sunrise and much more WORLDWIDE using these calculation forms
- Technical Alpine Climbing for Two-Person Teams An online incomplete manuscript, written in 1992, by Cameron McPherson Smith
- USNO GPS Timing Operations GPS info from the US Navy
- Walk it Off! Kind of "loose 50 pounds in seven weeks" plan.
- Wild camping Why wild camping? - legalities - choosing a camp site - leaving a sup-ply cache - safety - rucksack - tent - bivvy bag - sleeping bag - sleeping mat - clothes - cooking equipment - water containers - food - navigati-on - utilities - first aid - luxuries
- CWLease Routeplanner Europe
- European Railway Server Links all the European National Railway and Timetable Servers
- Grijn’s Travel Page Railways, bus services, airlines, metro systems, etc. WORLDWIDE
- Train and bus travelservice Best European railway and bus server, quick and convenient.
- Database of TravelHelpers Email addresses of people around the world who can help you with your travel.
- Alps
- Austria
- Austria (2) Current
- Austria (3) Forcast
- Belgium forecast, text
- Croatia Overview, forecast Zagreb
- Europe Pictograms
- Europe Clouds
- Europe (anti)cyclones
- Europe Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Finland Icons
- France Icons
- Germany Pictograms
- Greece (dead link?)
- Hungary
- Iceland Text, forecast
- Ireland dead link?
- Italy Overview
- Italy
- Netherlands Forecast, 4 days (Dutch)
- Netherlands text, forecast
- Portugal Text only
- Realtime Satellite Images Worldwide. Interesting to roam about on this site. But difficult to find your trail :)
- Spain Forecast, 1 day
- Sweden Current
- Switzerland Icons, current
- Switzerland Icons
- Switzerland Forecast, 4 days
- Turkey Overview, forecast
- Turkey Forecast, 1 day
- United Kingdom icons, current
- United Kingdom animated graphic, current
- United Kingdom Forecast, 2 days
- Weather Forecast, 4 days (Norwegian)
- Weather Icons, current
- Weather in Greece (dead link?)
- Weatherland Links to weather sites on internet worldwide
- Webcams in ski resorts - Sanders Ski Guide Hundreds of webcams worldwide - Sander Haytink
- Expeditions now! Guide to the worlds mountains Last updated in 1997, but seems to be useful as a reference
- The World Heritage List of course, this is not the last word about what is valuable in the world or not…
- VolcanoWorld Volcano listings, adventures etc. etc. etc. Five years online already
- World High Points A list of higest points per country