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I didn't see a photo of your new pack. As for where to pack it and tie it down... I use a survival pack myself, smaller but with a full molly system and compression straps. This allows me to use ad...
Percussion Drums have been used historically to communicate over long distances in forested areas, so you could send messages simply by knocking on wood. Pick up a couple of hard sticks, and knock...
I agree with what @Tullochgorum said, and will not repeat his points, but let's examine your strategy of eating half your food and then turning back. This is a zeroth order approximation to how to...
I used to do week long trips as a kid with a pretty light pack. If you hunt, fish, & gather along the way, you'll find that you can greatly extend your food supply. A telescoping rod, or an Ugl...
It is thought that noise generally will not be affective to make copperheads slither away. Making a lot of noise frightens snakes. Mostly false. For one thing, "snakes lack external ear op...
I believe this is a bar-headed goose. Source Source The Bar-headed Goose has a white head with distinctive black bars or stripes on its head, black extending down the front and back of the n...
Do you mean washing with lanolin-containing wool detergent, or just chucking in some of your lanolin you use on your baby's stuff? If the latter, I think it may be hard determining the correct amou...
Based on Olin Lathrop's suggestion, I searched around for coyote scat and found this resource: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf/Identification It points out that dog s...
Thansk to Sue's comment and using this answer: Check this link out: FREE topographic maps and research tools. I've found this online map: It's not perfect (the names are only in japane...
An important thing not listed in any of the answers here is to make sure your sleeping bag doesn't let air in around your neck/upper body. Whether it's a drawstring or something else, try to keep ...
I've been to Sarek twice and hiked other parts of the swedish and norwegian mountain range (some "wilder" than sarek) more than a dozen times. Here is my view: Sarek is wild, beautiful, but far fr...
I have hiked the entirety of the Kungsleden, did an 11 day Sarek crossing and have also been on parts of the Nordkalottleden and the Padjelantaleden - so you could say I am fairly experienced with ...
Most answers curiously omit a very dangerous reason why removing anything should be illegal, unless designated "affirmative" (that is, you are explicitly given permission to take away). You don't ...
If you're consistently cold in your sleeping system, then you need to change your system. An adequate sleep system for cold weather constitutes two sleeping pads: a solid foam sleeping pad underne...
Putting together a lot of ideas already covered and adding some tips I've gotten over time. I don't have much natural insulation and get cold easily, so these tips have all been important for me. ...
Humans have a few intuitions about how temperature, heat, and liquids work. These intuitions lead us astray for the specific case of a bladder full of urine. "Keeping Warm" / "Cooling down" The f...
You can't. The theory required you to get samples and send them to a lab, which wouldn't exactly be practical in the field anyway. METAL ABSORPTION BY EQUISETUM (HORSETAIL) A19 GOLD ...
The main reason that I found is for cutting a cornice, sometimes referred to as the bombs of the backcountry. Extending the handle allows one to cut it without being too close, and as for why o...
As to why you're still cold with those specs: it happens to me as well, and I think the specs are for the 'average' person meaning not only average amount of body fat but also average temperature r...
There are many factors to consider when purchasing skis, but for the most part, unless you're an avid skier and recognize the advantages of having one pair of skis over another then it's probably n...
We use both. It is not difficult to light a fire with a ferrocerium rod especially if you have pine trees around as we do. A bit of sap from one of them on your shavings, cotton balls, spanish moss...
A point others haven't stressed enough is that the sleeping bag specs I have encountered are way off, in my experience. My experience is that the sleeping bag should be as warm as possible, under a...
I find that an inflatable mat allows for a great deal of cold from the ground to reach you/warmth from you to be drawn out. I sleep on an Exped downmat, which although is an inflatable mat, is fil...
The math is trigonometry but I think you would need to get a feel. It is not like you could run the math on the fly anyway. The ratio of sin above and the sin below is 1.33. More angle is more ...
Another reason for extending a snow saw handle is for preparing a snow stability test, for avalanche awareness. There are various such tests and most initially require digging a trench then isolati...
