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The answer is that it depends on the moisture held in the air moist air changes at a rate of 3° Fahrenheit per 1000 ft of vertical / 0.6° Celsius per 100m. dry air changes at a rate of 5.4° Fahr...
When I started bouldering hard I would crimp and pinch everything: open doors by pinching the knobs with you finger tips; pick up things by crimping them on the edges (even if you can get a full op...
The main idea to muscle up your arms and strengthen your wrists and fingers is to make things harder when you carry things: Carry more, with one hand instead of two. Use less fingers (as you poin...
The best defense against ticks are your clothes. Ticks hang out on the ends of branches and blades of grass with their arms in he air waiting to hook onto anything that has blood to pass by. After ...
I hang my shoes on the outside of my bag. I've found that containing them in a airtight bag and then drying them "later" leads to them being sealed in an anaerobic environment, especially if they a...
People here are posting horror stories about being 30km from nearest habitation (this is walkable distance). If you're in Siberia, you're likely to be 300km from nearest habitation on a road with t...
Interesting comments. I happened upon this site while investigating a Willans harness I saw on a Jay Leno car. Nope. It is not the same company. I used a Whillans sit harness thoughout my clim...
The question here is not if you will be able to climb the mount or not. You will climb it for sure. The question is how comfortable the climbing will be? Will you be able to see a beauty of the mou...
Unless the car can provide heat (either engine or independent heater), tent is a better choice - car is not designed to keep the heat inside; tent is. Car is mostly metal and glass, both poor insu...
Cotton when wet can get quite cold which in turn will make you very cold or get hypothermia. Denim in my experience holds a lot of water which, like cotton, will get cold and may give you hypotherm...
When working with map AND compass, the declination should always be taken from the grid north (GN) since you align the compass orienting lines (red or black lines on the bottom or the bezel of the ...
The Brunton Truarc 3 compass is ajustable for declination WITHOUT the need of a screwdriver like tool. Just grab the clear vial with your left hand index under and thumb over to prevent it from mov...
The question supposes that you have winter camping gear. It would be warmer and more comfortable to set up in the tent. You have already specified that the tent could be partially buried (most wint...
Disclaimer, my car broke in extreme cold in Siberia many times. Many things were already said, I just want to share my own experience from living in rural Siberia for 5 winters in a row. We do no...
It depends. Your question says that you have a good set of camping gear. A properly set up tent, with the right gear can be quite warm. Much better then a car. A car will lose heat quite quickly....
Unless you can still use the car's heating (which usually presumes the motor still works), you're definitely better inside the tent. This can be told both from experience, and science-based. I've...
This has been a problem for quite a while, it used to be that one needed really good paper maps to be able to tell. Now there are chips for GPS units that show the ownership of the land on the map...
TLDR: It's the same in both hemispheres. To keep the explanation simple consider someone driving south at night across the equator in Africa . The person sees a star ahead and it's moving to the r...
(In this answer I concentrate mostly on practical knots to be used for situations where lives may depend on it. Decorative work has quite different sources and rules.) There is no one method that ...
If you are doing outriggers, then do not plane the boat. At those speeds, catching a pontoon on an outrigger can either rip it off, or twist the boat hard enough that occupants go flying. If you ...
Animated Knots By Grog Arguably the best resource online for knot tying is Animated Knots by Grog, it's used by virtually every avid knot tyer I've known. They have excellent step-by-step animatio...
I have slept many nights in a homemade conversion van From experience getting up at dawn, it usually feels warmer outside the van then in it. There are probably scientific words for it; but the me...
The Alta Vista hut is at 3260 meters above the sea level. That means you would need to do all those hight meters in one day. While not undoable, as we can see from the other comments, you have to b...
This one is almost identical to the figure eight on a bight, with one crucial difference. When you get to the final step of the figure eight on a bight, instead of pushing the end of the bight thr...
The crime rate on most trails is 0, due to the very low frequency of use. The trails that have had a crime committed on them tend to have a very high crime rate, again due to the low frequency of ...
