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As EN norms are not publicly available and quite costly, I can't confirm for sure that there is no temperature testing - but from what I hear there is none. If anyone can authoritatively confirm or...
TL;DNR: If you have a safety problem climbing with children, it won't be because the rope is a bit old. You need to define what you mean by 'Safely'. I put it that is impossible as it varies for...
I've done nearly all of my camping and hunting in deer tick country. You're on the right track with the basics: DEET, long sleeves, long pants, and high socks. At night use mesh as suggested in c...
The answer is in this video: https://youtu.be/seCiupa4I6U?t=1m2s I'm not sure if it's the same traverse as the OP posted, but I'd bet on it. The thing that looks like a biner between the columns i...
For peace of mind, the tried and true method is to do a check at the end of the day. According to the Maine Department of Infectious Disease (Response to Question #20): Ticks need to be attach...
Like many prey animals, vision is optimised to detect danger coming from anywhere. They can see you with one eye very easily, and their reflexes are on a hair-trigger to take them away from incomin...
As there are already a lot of good answers, I thought I'd just tackle the one bit I haven't seen addressed. tldr: Drinking water and passing water can help remove excess heat in itself, disregardi...
TLDR: This is a very common setup here and intuitively I always thought it was 4:1. So I needed to check more rigorously and the result is: Petzl made their homework, it is 7:1. Let me try to expla...
As a native Floridian I can tell you dealing with the heat takes a lot more awareness then dealing with the cold. Cold is easy compared to heat. Mostly because cold effects can be felt, while heat ...
A knot that's simple and easy to use, explicitly for the purpose of tying in to the middle of the rope, would be the Alpine Butterfly. Tie it, then put it to your belay loop with one or two lockin...
Given your purpose, I would choose a surfing suit. They tend to run much cheaper than scuba suits as their purpose is different. They also tend to have more generous room in the arms and shoulder...
That tree got bent over but not snapped when it was just tall enough so that its tip was where the end of the bend is now. One of the small branches near that tip happened to point upwards after t...
Randall Munroe has the single best article on this I have ever seen, over on his What-If site where he discusses what would happen if all the water in a cloud formed one giant raindrop. I recommen...
3 to 7mm utility cord. It is designed to be tied. If you go to a climbing retailer you can typically buy by the foot.
The existing answer is perfectly fine, I just take a little different angle: Use any rope-like object that fulfills either of these two conditions: You already have it. It will be useful for w...
You need to use rope specific to the knots' purpose. It does no good to practice a fisherman's knot on hemp or climbing rope, when fishing line is expected. You'll never understand the nuances of...
I suspect that tree grew with something else twined around it. That something else has meanwhile died or been removed. Bittersweet is a likely candidate for what might have wound around the tree ...
My swim trunks generally came with a tie string in the front to permit them to be securely fastened to my waist. So when I was a kid, my house key was merely tied into the string with the standard ...
I am quite certain that there are more deadly mushrooms than just the one you mentioned - if only for the other members of the Amanita Genus, many of which are very poisonous and some plain kill yo...
Even barring special circumstances like focal points and such you can in general hear sounds from further away in the mountains. Reason one is all the air between two points. On flat ground there i...
It's hard to give paddling advice without seeing someone paddle, but from your description it sounds like the person in front is actively doing the wrong thing, and quite strongly so because the pe...
For surfing, you will first need to know how to swim very well. If you do know how to swim, or if you practice it daily, then you are are quite fit to go surfing. If you are planning to go surfing...
This comes from more of a personal experience side of things, rather than a statistics point of view. See the other answers if you are looking for the actual numbers. Being a Swede, and telling ju...
Were I live they were first goat trails. Goats pick the easy way. Next waterbuffalo walked them, These were soon hooked to sleds to pull more. & are still in use to walk.
To address the follow-up, Sweden has four species of large carnivore: wolf, wolverine, brown bear and lynx. The first three are all willing to scavenge, as are some birds, and of course humans (ple...
