Combining Activities

Combinations Ladder | Combining Sports | Bundled Separate Activities

Multiple outdoor activities can be combined to increase the number of outdoor opportunity available to you. For example, using a car allows you to take advantage of out-of-town trails. A canoe allows you to access hiking trials that you must cross a body of water to reach. Some combinations are common, some are unusual and some are crazy. An unusual sight would be someone using a canoe and cross-country skis. A canoe can actually be dragged across the snow using a special harness. This then is an easier portage then carrying the canoe on your shoulders. The time frame when there is skiable snow and open water at the same time is narrow of course.

Instead of listing all the possible ways of combining outdoor activities, it is easier to present a 'combinations ladder'. Most of the time a person would start near the top of the ladder and work his way down, but valid combinations exist going sideways or up the ladder.

Combinations Ladder

Spaceships
Powered Air Vechicles: Private Jet, Consumer plane.
Sky Diving
Powered land vechicles: Car, Truck, Train, Bus
Powered rough terrain vechicles: Snowmobile, ATV
Unpowered watercraft: Canoe, rafts, sailboats. Powered watercraft: Motorboats, jetski.
Bicycle, Ski
Hike, Snowshoes

>> To Be Moved

Skiing and Snowshoeing together

Snowshoes can be easily be put in a specially designed backpack and harnessed on your back. How can skies be carried? On a backpack maybe?