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Ursacks Significantly lighter 8oz vs 44oz for 10 liters of space. Shrinks as food is eaten. Not a large hard object in your backpack. Bear Canister Legal to use in more places. More bea...
I had never heard of Tchesinkut Lake before, but it was pretty easy to find this view. I entered "Tchesinkut Lake" into Google Earth, which found the lake right away. After that, looking at the o...
u/felixfelix answered this. I edited his comment to add punctuation. I think it's Okanagan Lake, viewed from Summerhill Pyramid Winery, Kelowna. Here is another similar view. Another photo from...
This is Kolgrafafjörður in Iceland. The road is Snæfellsnesvegur (Highway 54), approaching the bridge accross the fjord from the West.
Here are three games you can play on a hike: Sushi Go, Scrabble Cards (best played inside a tent), and Liar's Dice. Enjoy your hike!
Following the footsteps of user5732's post with the Cub Scout check list, their handbook has some suggestions of projects. One that hasn't been mentioned yet is soap carving. Soap is easier to cut...
Make a feather stick. This is a stick with many thin shavings attached. Doing it well requires the knife to be very sharp, so it tests their sharpening skills. And the end product can be used to te...
I am not a camper, so I do not know The Answer™, but here are some considerations: Draped over the cord Pros It's simple. If the ground is higher on one side, you can give one side or the oth...
Electric Hand Warmers Battery life (realistic use): High setting: 3–4 hours Medium setting: 5–7 hours Low setting: 7–10 hours Pros: Rechargeable, reusable, often offer adjustable heat levels (...
If I click on the edit link on a question (e.g., https://outdoors.codidact.com/questions/74859/edit ), I get a 403 page. This is either a bug (i.e., I should be able to edit) or a feature (I'm not...
More inconsistencies... Allowed in original save, but reported as errors when I edit and try to save: Title can't be blank Title must be more than 15 non-whitespace characters long Tags cache ca...
I am not able to vote up or down on the question or answer here https://photography.codidact.com/questions/74926 I have a vote history of one vote on that site which is on a meta post. Also I a...
I noticed that some of the posts I wrote on SE Outdoors were imported, apparently to give the illusion of more activity here than there really is. It was a little disconcerting to see that, althou...
What do the 'delete' and 'close' options I see under a question do? I am a normal user with ~1700 rep. I see a delete button under questions and answers (if I wrote them or not). When I mouse over...
Looking at posts tagged [status-completed], or the tags list for the category, it becomes evident that the [status-completed] tag isn't showing up formatted as a moderator tag and the other status ...
TGO community ads for 2020 need to be posted on meta here https://outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1608/community-promotion-ads-2020 I don't have the time or the skills to create the ad....
This took a while, but I promised, I'd come back to this. And here I am. It should be fixed now (once the change has been deployed).
As of right now, nothing. It has been requested that they not show if a person can't use them, but I am not sure where that is on the list of priorities for development.
A massive advantage of paper maps over electronic is the combination of area and resolution. You can take a bearing to a mast on top of a hill several km away, when zooming out that far on a GPS sc...
The most important reasons have already been given in other highly upvoted answers. Planning, coverage, resolution, etc. I want to address the cost aspect. Given the low price and weight of e...
If I was considering nails for my survival kit, I think I would probably upgrade to a hand drill instead. Metal nails are use once and gone, a drill and a knife will make an unlimited supply of h...
There have already been quite some answers but I have the feeling that these answers are a bit one-sided towards paper maps and definitely do not reflect the reality outdoors. First, navigation on...
I can't believe the convoluted answers. The answer is simple. A Map and compass WILL always work. The electronic device will NOT always work. Good luck finding your way without basic map reading ...
Have you ever heard of the Uyuni salt flat? 10,000 km2 of almost perfectly flat surface, 3 km above sea level. 0 GPS signal. (Some of the time) This is because of the South Atlantic Anomaly, wh...
Swiss Alpine Club (SAC-CAS) has a colletion of guide books however only few are available in English. SAC also has Tour Portal available in English with almost 1800 tours categorized by type (hiki...
