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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...
It is always difficult commenting on what exactly happened and what was going through someone's mind. And in the end it is speculation. There is a good chance that he was overloaded and as he desc...
To improve the simmer: Remove one of the corrugated rings in the dome. Install the kerosene jet, but burn gasoline. This results in a smaller flame at all levels, including simmer. Works great fo...
Other answers address the name part of your question, here I just speak about the location. It is going to occur in what is now Yellowstone National Park. CUBIC MILES of Earth will ejected "the v...
This is part of rope management. Your situation sounds like a common one where you are belaying a leader from the ground with a rope out of a rope bag that b has not been flaked prior to the climb....
If you have extra fuel, extra water, and a spare frypan you can also use the double-pan technique. Put the water in the frypan and then your pot in the water. The water in the frypan will buffer ...
The significant part of the Blue Hole is a cave dive — and at significant depth. It may be that he got disoriented due to darkness and nitrogen narcosis and thus did not know where he was. In cav...
Assuming deterrence is your goal, I’d ask your neighbor if you can first put up a “DON’T LITTER - UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE” sign. That may be enough by itself to deter. And if not, you can set ...
Cast iron dutch oven's can even be burnt in a fire to clean them out. Aluminum dutch oven's, however, can melt when placed in a campfire.
This is likely caused by soft baits eating the plastics. Older plastics weren't made to resist the solvents that make soft baits soft and squishy. Check out: https://www.bassmaster.com/tips/char...
It is important to match your intended shooting height to the bipod that you select. Additionally, the longer that you are shooting the more stable the attachment between the rifle and the bipod ne...
I think the answer by mmcc is mostly correct. They are probably parts of an old electrical device battery. But the round case is not steel. Steel (ferrous metals) rust (oxidize) like the narrow s...
The best tool I have found for this is a Hemostat. Source They are long and thin, enabling you to reach in and get to fishhooks that are deep inside and can be locked onto the hook. It's also...
I have temporarily solved the problem by rubbing the sticky part with talc. But this protection leaves a bit of talc around, and must be repeated every few days. Luckily I don't use the backpack fo...
The site Archive.Org has copies of magazines that had internet versions. A search for "Rock and Ice" produced a magazine called Rock and Ice Climbing. Rock and Ice results There is a possibility...
There are indeed libraries which have print or microfilm copies of those publications. San Francisco Public Library has a Periodicals floor where they can be accessed. They appear to have issues si...
