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Blue light can injure the eyes. Is there any reason to avoid blue lenses? Will I do more long-term damage to my eyes than choosing another option like these? UV light (which is blocked by go...
If you can live with steps in the adjustments you can make a loop like the bracelet but with a series of balls or loops. Or you can put a moving knot to tighten the loop. This will not have steps ...
How about repurposing an old belt. Add a few more holes to it.
Geologically significantly different. Fjords are flooded glacial valleys, and usually have very steep sides. Often the fjord itself is deeper than the ocean beyond it's mouth. Many have very inac...
If you look at the historical data the latest in the year that's its opened is July 1st, and in 2017 which was a very similar year for amount of snow it opened June 29th. That year the road was lef...
What you are looking for is a knot that, Is easy to tie and check that you did it properly. Big enough it won't go through the belay device. Won't come undone. That gives you a number of option...
Definitely a wolf spider (i.e., family Lycosidae). Possibly Hogna frondicola or some closely related species. Source: Spiderid.com The white ball is an egg sac. From Wikipedia: wolf spide...
As the other answer suggests, this is a sea urchin. Specifically, it appears to be a commonly caught species off Maine called Strongylocentrus droebachienisis, which is commonly called the green se...
This is a terrestrial isopod crustacean called a woodlouse (colloquially referred to as pill bugs, potato bugs, roly-pollies, sow bugs, etc.). There are over 5000 species in the world with at l...
The NPS announced that the road will open unrestricted on July 1st (conditions permitting).
Sunblock comes in two variants- physical and chemical. Physical ones work just by being present on your skin, and and usually contain a mineral like zinc or titanium. Chemical ones are the ones t...
Technically, according to Leave No Trace principles you should leave everything as you find it. Two other related principles would be travel on durable surfaces and respect wildlife. As you intimat...
Nature is not static, it is always in motion. Let's look at two extremes. A small pothole full of water on the trail can be completely filled with a couple of handfuls of gravel. Expand this to...
This article has a list of what chemicals to avoid, why, and some good sunscreen choices. The three main points are below. Note that titanium dioxide falls under physical sunscreen but is still har...
You have not added a location. Not to be a debby downer, but in the interest of other users that come across this post, I will add the advice given by a few Western-European governments: "DON'T DO...
It depends. For the boots I had, and military/long walking events experience: Tougher boots take longer to break in, simply because the material is less flexible and takes time to 'form' around y...
According to Garmin, with a 30-minute tracking interval and extended tracking mode, the battery should last for 20 days. Turn the screen brightness down and turn it off every single night when you ...
Lessons from literature : Drill a narrow hole in an old log, place a piece of shiny metal at the bottom, and insert a series of nails facing downward. The space between the nails should be just en...
Why Not Trap? Raccoons are smart. They know that one of them got caught in the trap and they know that by going in, they risk the same. If you're patient, it's likely you'll catch more within a fe...
As with anything, features can depend on intended usage. Beyond the basics of weatherproofing, battery life, onboard storage capacity, the convenience of battery changing, mounting options, etc. I...
Some places are more sensitive than others. It can be hard to tell whether some innocuous-looking pebbles are a critical habitat for creatures you don't see, but a good guide is to look at how muc...
If you don't need the full rain pants, then gaitors should do the trick. I would wear the gaitors over the top of all of your other layers, and just wear them when you need to, as otherwise you wil...
Depending on your fitness, and the size of your child, you can carry your child into their 4th year, but by that time you're typically having to worry about camping supplies also. I'm in the middle...
If you want to go really basic: use two logs, maybe 15-20 cm/6-8 inch across each, and tie them together with a number (>=2) of (large, heavy duty) cable ties. Dig the ends into the ground a bit...
I looked into it a bit more and I would recommend trying a light coat of plumber's tape on the threads of the hose connection. Pipe thread tape, or 'plumbing tape' is made from Polytetrafluoro...
