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See "How to Make Colored Fire (Ask an Expert)", while the article is intended for fireplaces and not cooking amongst the recommendations is borax which is not very poisonous (in some countries it i...
I don't think there is one tent material that will prevent ants from cutting through, unless you want a ridiculously heavy kevlar tent. All classic materials are definitely not sturdy enough. I k...
Depends on the activity. Depends on the time of year. Summer on the trail: Water. I don't bother with anything else. Salted nuts are part of my lunch and there is a salt shaker with supper. S...
I was about to write a long essay on how strange the Norwegian rules regarding rights-of-every-man and the department of safety and readiness but I realized you are just asking where to find the in...
If the rock is granite, the white inclusions are almost certainly quartz. The OP ruled out ab2's original suggestion of calcite with his scratch test, the results of which he edited into his quest...
There is some data on this but mostly it's the really broad type that aren't particularly useful, and its scattered all over the place. It also depends on what type of data you look at, rock climb...
A reasonable compromise is any pop bottle -- one designed for carbonated beverages. They are several times as strong as the water bottles. I've never managed to break one. I have a polyethylene ...
It's reasonable to identify stages up to the start of shivering. But shortly after that judgement goes out the window. If you are traveling in a group, set up a buddy system. Each person has a ...
Interesting how everyone is carrying upside-down. We have two 5m fibreglass kayaks (based on Zegal Greenlands) that we carry on the roofrack - right-side up. I have made two strong rectangular pl...
Ok, I think I figured it out, the guy before me did a weird thing so it confused me. But I think one is for the shoulder strap and the other for the lid of the bag. I included a pic, please let me ...
One-liner: Wiki thinks its the same. Although Wiki is not always perfect about information it posts, the justification there make sense to me. Looked up at Heat Index wikipedia, it says, The ...
The stress on your body will be the same, and it will take about the same time again to acclimatize, as others already explained. I wanted to add some other information: different people react very...
next to a small river so I could step out into the clear to get at least some view of the sky That's really the bare minimum for good signal. This will have much more impact than how you hold ...
Do you mean sleeping bag liners? If so, I've never seen a 2-person liner although they seem to exist. Consider buying two and going to a tailor/seamstress to get it modified. It shouldn't be expens...
This is on the eastern side of “western”, but Tully Lake in Royalston MA has tent-only camping (hike/paddle in, no vehicle access) and trails beside a small gem of a lake. http://www.thetrustees.o...
I think that you could go for the Duluth area and in particular for the superior hiking trail, depending on you goals. It is a historic touristic area, with plenty of nature, on the lake, and with ...
I can speak for Italy, but bare in mind two things. First, I am an economist, interested into wolves because of side projects (i.e. the connection between the increase in the wolves population and ...
Others have focused on materials and structure. This answer just tries to supplement that info by focusing a bit on fire building as a process. Others have mentioned that your initial source (e.g....
I'm a Glacier National Park local, as in I can see the park from my house, and my house is on the map that they hand out at the gate for Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Very Likely. In...
Outdoor rock is more abrasive and wears your skin off much faster than the plastic holds in the gym. For example: The rock I climb mostly is considered to be the oldest stone in the Canadian rockie...
One simple check that I have used is to touch your thumb to your other fingers. If you can no longer touch your thumb to your pinkie finger (which usually is utterly trivial when warm) and if it i...
I have used a Garmin inReach for many miles, and your location will be more important than how you hold it. Deep canyons with throw off the GPS Signal and sometimes being under thick trees will pr...
For a more data driven approach, here's a google trends graph for the popularity of searches for "climbing gym", "indoor climbing", "climbing center", "climbing centre", and "climbing wall": google...
As a rough rule of thumb, a dive at 45 metres is a ratio of 1:1 where every minute at that depth requires one minute of decompression stops. Therefore every dive to 45 metres is a decompression d...
Never in place of sleeping bags and pads, or even extra dry clothes, but maybe as a backup. If it’s a weather situation where you need the heat to avoid hypothermia, reliability might be your crit...
