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Titanium doesn't rust (or at least, doesn't rust in the timeframe that this gear is typically used for) so this could be a good piece of kit for a surfer or diver. You could hang keys or a waterp...
If you're looking for anywhere that's a close drive away from the Twin Cities, I would recommend checking out some of the Dakota County and Three Rivers Distrct Parks. Lebannon Hills Regional Park ...
If you understand what you're doing and why, do what is safe. First of all (probably obvious): you should never fall on a via ferrata, so don't do anything risky. Second: even a 10m + lanyard fal...
Italy Wild camping in Italy is actually not directly regulated (the link is only in Italian, sorry). In general, if camping is not forbidden, then it is legal; laws concerning camping are usually ...
Ignoring the valid criticisms on the design of this particular unit, the chief virtue of titanium is the strength to weight ratio. In principle you can cut the weight by half or so compared to a s...
It happens fairly often, and usually the purpose is to reintroduce the animals to places where they used to be but were wiped out. This is know as species reintroduction/restablishment. Species...
The reason is simple: You are not supposed to fall on these climbs, in any case. Falls will in most cases be very bad indeed, no matter where you clipped in. Your security line is basically made so...
The rule with Via Ferrata is to always have at least one point of safety clipped in at all times. Many people have fallen to their deaths while unclipped from their safety lines in order to pass an...
If it is more about hygiene/comfort when sleeping in huts and not about warmth, you could just go with a duvet/blanket cover. After all they are essentially shaped like very big bag - and coming in...
I have spend plenty an afternoon, sitting along the local shipping canal or one of the fishing ponds in the area, when I was a child. If I was lucky there was a three part cane fishing pole and if ...
I've been in the early stages of hypothermia before, and I can tell you from experience that when you're in the early stages of hypothermia, you're convinced you're okay and that nothing is wrong; ...
Seahorses are found all over the world where they : Diving with Seahorses: seahorses inhabit coral reefs and sea grass beds. They have been recorded at depths as low as 0.5m and as deep as 75m....
I can't say I have any experience on these specific products, but I do have quite a bit of experience of diarrhea in an environment where you need to manage it yourself. I was fortunate enough to t...
In theory, it should not be a matter of painters' will and disposition on the day they are painting the waymark. There are well established symbols and colors combinations. See for instance this we...
If you're looking for close to home, I'm thinking about Mount Ararat (Turkey), Damavand (Iran), Elbrus (Russia) although this last one has glacier travel to contend with. Then you have to go to so...
@Wigwam's answer is a pretty good explanation, but I thought I would add to it a bit more "common" one. First lightning is extremely powerful, and it does not need to hit you to totally mess you ...
I have always used the rungs for clipping in, and was taught so by the guide too. Never heard of any reason to not do it; yes, it slows you down, but clipping into horizontal steel cables also slo...
Back in 1987 I bicycled over Fluela Pass in Switzerland. A young man chose to ride with me for a time and had me try water from a fresh Alpine stream. It tasted good and did not smell. More than 24...
You can find decades of data for thousands of weather stations (in the Western US, Alaska and Hawaii) here: Western U.S. Climate Historical Summaries You can select the stations from a map or sea...
The "Standard" would be to only use containers specifically designed and marked for the type of fuel it is holding. There are a number of reasons; safety, legal and physical to not repurpose used...
The answer is to not use a repurposed water bottle. Further, use completely different types of containers for fuel and water so you can't mix them up. Back in the day (the 1970's) when white gas s...
Always use a fuel container. They are marked and designed for fuel. Never use improvised water containers for fuel. There are various sizes available in retail shops and online.
So with the disclaimer that this answer is not based on experience with any actual field-proven practices or tech, and posted in the hopes of contributing to idea generation by people who like to i...
On your itinerary -- sea level, Machu Picchu, low altitude, Cuzco -- you do not have to start from scratch in acclimatization after four days at low altitude, but you are far from acclimatized to C...
I am not a Dr but it seems to me the body would declimitize as fast as acclimatise. So you would lose 4 days of acclimatisation. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING & TREKKING BOLIVIA For example we have s...
