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The ground is a good insulator though it takes time to warm the soil closest to the heat source. A lot of heat will be lost from the top, but I assume there's a ground-level floor at the top of thi...
If you live anywhere near an ocean harbor, there's not a better rope for a swing than good old 3" halyard, double braided nylon (mooring lines for ships) Search the yard to find a pile of it coiled...
Based on several sources related to parasites that can be found in rabbit meat, as noted in other answers in this post, it is difficult to correctly diagnose whether a rabbit has been infected or n...
To keep your tent from burning. Making the stove jack out of metal, would conduct heat to from your stovepipe. This could cause your tent material to start to burn. If you look at the descriptio...
Yes, regardless of how as you dress it, that is still a figure 8 knot. It's not going to matter either, because once the knot is weighted, it will be pulled into the same configuration regardless ...
Positive buoyancy is useful in a swimming wetsuit as it reduces drag by lifting the swimmer in the water. Less swimmer in the water, less drag to overcome, so the swimmer can be faster for the same...
On Meteo there are many others climbers. So you can join some other group of people :-) Hiking to Meteo is easy except for the Gergeti glacier (rolling stones, water, cracks). For ascending/climbi...
In most cases, and certainly in this one, you want to go downhill following water if at all possible. Downhill will take you to civilization in almost all cases as humans have tended to settle in ...
TLDR: Yes A bear’s sense of smell is seven times stronger than a bloodhound. If you’ve ever smelled coffee, alcohol, or yesterday’s beetroot salad in your urine, bears can smell every donut and...
I don’t know of anything off the shelf that is a magnetic connector but there is a thing called a “cable pass-through” or “cable gland” that you could use to pierce the netting and pass your cable ...
I looked at Wikipedia, List of snakes of connecticut and the WhatSnakeIsThat listing. It seems it most likely is one of these 3 based on the back color: Black Racer (Coluber constrictor) - 20 to...
While I cannot identify the snake myself, I would still like to partially answer your main question of "Is it dangerous?" TL;DR Non-experts can easily misidentify snakes, and even experts can mis...
You for large saws that also fit in a pocket, it looks like the best solution is a "pocket chainsaw" which is basically a chainsaw blade that you pull back and forth with your hands. Image Sourc...
When I couldn't find a Canadian Tire, I bought "rubbing alcohol" in a pharmacy. Works as well.
The consensus around the people i travel with is varied and the best answer to this is "it depends". Keep the water in - Keeping the water in does add thermal capacity but it's not as good as ice...
One thing that jumps out at me here is: I have a bunch of alpine draws on my left gear loop, and cams on my right I've recently stopped doing this. I now mix my gear and draws up, so both s...
If you are not threatened there is no reason to activate your PLB. See How bad do circumstances need to be before activating a PLB? It is a forest fire, there may be people who are actually at ri...
Option 2 is better, as activating your PLB will divert resources that could be used to fight the forest fire, and put other people in unnecessary danger (PLBs aren't a get out of danger free card)....
I'd like to caution against returning to recently burned areas for recreational purposes. Give it a year or two for vegetation to return. Traveling, even by foot, could cause irreparable damage w...
Now that parts of the Park have been reopened, I've learned that there are several answers to this question. In the case of "when is it safe", the answer is essentially, "when the fire is out". The...
They probably will burn, see this one for example, Image Source Also wood has a higher ignition temperature. Sometimes they are in metal boxes on metal posts, but quite often they are wood or ...
I've seen these or very similar pics before. Did you ask on another site? I can't tell from the pix if there is mortar or just mud holding the stones together. In a similar question it turned ou...
Out and back is the same as total. The 10 mile trail might be 5 miles out and 5 miles back, for example. If you take a different route back, the numbers might not be the same. For example you mig...
Yes but try a traditional Greenland kayak paddle You absolutely can although as mentioned above you are sitting closer to the water and may therefore need a shorter paddle. That said, as your ...
The existing answers, should be considered. But given that the OP wants to know how high to build a fence. I know from experience that bears can climb 20 feet (6 meters) without diffuclty in secon...
