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General guidelines are going to be all over the place. We don't know how far you are going to hike a day or how many down days you are going to take. The US length is 3,100 miles. What is your ...
As already said, tent are not made to protect from the cold. Even expedition tents are created to protect from the wind or the snow, but not to keep warmth (well, a little, but not mainly). For exe...
You need a large tent if you want to have anything safely burning inside. The small, sleeping-only tent as most summer backpackers carry along won't do. Nomads have been having fires in tents for...
I did the CDT this year (5 months, 2700mi, NoBo). In this answer, I will focus on budget while on trail (not budget to buy gear or transport to get on trail). General advices (some answering to pa...
Underestimating how hard it is to walk in the snow I have done quite a lot of summer hiking and decided to go in winter on a track I knew well. The track was layered with about a meter of snow. I...
There are a couple of long quality answers. This is the short simple version. There are either berries or not, if there are berries, and you know they are safe, eat them. If your sitting and wai...
I am searching for the same sort of thing. I live in a village on a rugged, sparsely populated stretch of coast in Mexico. I have a lot of ocean to explore if I can address two safety concerns: I...
Bears will definitely go smashing bird feeders to get to the seed and they are the only thing big enough to pull your feeders over. Yes, bears (and other wildlife) are readily attracted to back...
A new jacket isn't going to solve your problems, you need to dress differently in cold climates. Living in the cold always involves a trade off between staying warm and overheating. Especially when...
There are two things you can do, Before climbing, look up the glacier and see which areas have had rockfall in the recent past and then avoid them. Rockfall will leave some rocks in the area that...
What kind of environment is the trip in? If you can find straight shores designed for mooring boats getting in and out dry should not be a problem. If the shores are all shallow and beach like the ...
Getting out is not the hard part. It is getting in and going again without getting wet. To get out: If the beach is large enough come in sideways, lean away from shore to as you beach. when the...
The guys in New Zealand make thermal underwear made from polypropylene - different material to the stuff that the fancy brands use. It's cheap, and it stays warm even when - not if - you get wet....
AWD (All Wheel Drive) is available in many small cars and 'cross over' vehicles. You don't need to choose an SUV to have it. Note that Four Wheel Drive (4WD or 4X4) is different then AWD. If you...
This was after some research most likely a Great crested newt. Great crested newt, Triturus cristatus. A European Protected Species, the great crested newt is dark brown with a row of white s...
Charlie Brumbaugh's answer is fairly comprehensive about the dangers. I will address some ideas on how to deal with this sort of trip. Avalanche Hazard. A: Take an avalanche safety course. It w...
Simulate the setup as follows: Use several 1 gallon milk jugs as your 'person' In the middle jug, put a hole in the cap, and insert a temperature probe. (Many multi-meters come with a temperatu...
Cannot speak to your specific species, but I have found that any form of grease: lard, margarine, butter, engine oil, transmission oil, is effective against at least horse flies, black flies, sand...
I have spent somewhere around 1000-1200 nights in the Canadian Rockies, Prairies, boreal forests and tiaga. I rarely have used either a water filter or sterilizer tablets. Nor have people on our ...
After reading the "you're doing it wrong if you need to" I'll take a contrarian view: I've camped several times using an outfitter's tent -- canvas walled, barely liftable dry, and barely dragable...
Sew it back together and tape the seams. Working with Goretex or any other type of waterproof material is the exact same as any other type of fabric. The only difference is that you tape the seams...
I have twice had problems with this in working with groups in emergencies. The group mistakenly reading decimal minutes as DMS, adding in unnecessary delays in reaching the group. In conversations ...
The second source you cite comes from a website maintained by a corporation calling themselves Backpacker Magazine. When a person expects to go backpacking, it would seem to me that they would be ...
In the more densely populated areas of Central Europe these long distance trails just seamlessly blend in with regional or local trails, so while the whole, say, 2690 km of the EB Eisenach - Budap...
One quick way to deal with twists in a rope if you're single pitching is to switch ends on the rope you're climbing with. When it's your turn to climb, instead of tying into the same end the last c...
