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For traveling we will pre-freeze pop bottles with ice or juice. When we stop at a motel, we refreeze the bottles. This works well. As we drink the juice, we will refill with water. For your use...
Presuming that you have a modern can, the simplest solution I can think of is to rotate the ring-pull 180 degrees around its axis, so that the lever is over the opening (as per the image below, bu...
After a brief exchange of comments, I think I have enough to take a stab at an answer, with the caveat that this will be mostly informed-guessing on my part. After all, every animal has its persni...
My Dad drinks canned beverages regularly while working outside, and his go-to solution for keeping wasps/hornets/etc out of the cans is a small disk or square of 1/2" plywood about 4" square (or di...
The guidebook that I have for climbing lists different routes left-to-right meaning when you are standing in front of the crag looking at the routes they are described in order of what you see goin...
Good snow goggles as described in ab2's answer take a while to make. A quick and dirty way for temporary use can be made with bark. Birch bark is probably easiest to work with, but any smooth bar...
My question is: short of drilling, how do locals decide the ice on their lakes is safe for winter sports? What people in North America do (for testing if you can walk on the ice) is: Check t...
I can only judge how likely it is to be slippery. These are my experiences from doing canyoning: Before judging the rock I judge my shoes. E.g. almost everything would be slippery in sandals. Hiki...
I see what is essentially an direct belay but rigged off the harness serving as a pseudo indirect/body belay, you also have a direct clip-in to a third piece as a personal backup. The good. You...
I fell down a 10m crevasse last weekend on the Argentiere glacier in chamonix. I was on a snowboard and luckily landed on a snowbridge within the crevasse which stopped my fall without serious inj...
The steps are rather simple for following a bearing without always looking at your compass, Pick a distant recognizable point (stump, rocks, tree) on your bearing. Travel to that point (not neces...
You know one when you see one when it comes to "established fire-rings", but Generally: Complies with the objective rules. Has been used for multiple seasons, with evidence of a deep bed of soot...
@WeatherVane has already posted the permit link in a comment. Get your permits ASAP since you are at the 24 week window about now. They go fast - looks like Happy Isles TH is full through the curre...
Boot Fitter Here. I can tell you that Gore-Tex can and will keep your feet dry and last the lifetime of the boot, if: the Gore-Tex was intact at point of sale, and the boot fits properly. But ...
I keep MREs (You can find cases for around $6-8 a meal, ~1500-2000 calories). They last marked 5 years at around 60 degrees F, longer in the cold, less in the heat but they have been proven to stil...
It does make sense to watch the weight of your gear and go for lighter gear when possible. A few ounces here and there will add up to pounds. On the other hand, it is also possible to be penny wis...
There are several expressions akin to Pay attention to the ounces, and the pounds take care of themselves. The most famous saying is Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take car...
Vox recently answered your question here - the youtube video is worth checking out Horseshoe Bend used to be a little-known roadside view of the Colorado River in Page, Arizona. But if you lo...
Check out sunburnmap.com. Just enter your city and you can get results such as this: Accuweather.com also has some hourly UV forecasts. You need to click on the hourly forecast for your locati...
It seems likes this is mostly an issue of scale, in well-traveled areas where lots of people go it's not going to make a lot of difference, while remote areas that could possibly see lots of sudden...
I'm taking a different tack. I have slept both in and out of a tent on many winter nights, and I will not use a tent unless there is significant wind or precipitation. Here's the problem: The te...
I'm used to walking for longer distances a few times, even up to like 30KM on kinda even areas, but I've never done a multiple day trip in a hilly area. One important differences between (mult...
If you geotag a place that is easy to get to, you may have a detrimental influence. However, if you geotag a place that takes a long hike to get to, especially off-trail, multiday, and uphill, you...
From experience, traveling under a full moon works well. Warning: The shadows are inky dark. You will still need a torch or headlamp, but in the open you can turn it off. I have done winter tri...
I think it heavily depends on how one such place is administered. There is a thing called 'footfall in nature' and unfortunately with a poor administration of people coming in it is likely to do mo...
