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Yes, you should seek medical expertise. From healthcentral.com: When the skin has thawed and rewarming is complete, cover the damaged skin with bandages and warm clothing. Contact your d...
Whoever told you C1 are aimed at 'more advanced users' than C2 is plain wrong. Crampon grades are really about where and how you plan to use them, rather than how good you are. Here's a typically...
Just to add to PPL's answer. The UK National Health Service has good practical advice on this also. It's available here. But to summarise some of the relevant points: Treatment for frostbite de...
I have used both for night hiking, and I like a headlamp way better. The main reasons are that it leaves the hands free, and the light is aiming roughly in the direction I'm looking. I made my ow...
A flashlight is in my experience much better for traveling at night. This because: It throws out a more powerful beam than almost any headlamp - The problem with a headlamp is that any bright eno...
Here's a detailed article on hauling called Hauling 101. Summary: Use a pulley Back up your pulley Use a safety line or tie yourself in independently Attach a 40 foot piece of static line (7 ...
Snow blindness in simple terms is burning of the cornea and conjunctiva due to UV rays. At higher altitudes, the UV rays are more as less atmosphere is there to absorb these UV rays. Hence there is...
If you'd lost, broken or simply didn't have any googles, I know in the days before effective UV protective eyewear, explorers would wear goggles with thin slits cut into them to reduce the amount o...
As furtiv said, an approach shoe would be ideal for situations like this. I love my Scarpa Crux shoes for scrambling. Lightweight, flexible, and grippy. They also work well for the trail, too.
Based on travelling in the region of this question for a few weeks and asking numerous park rangers this questions, and yet activly trying to find reptiles. Most snakes and other reptiles are indee...
To add to what others have mentioned, reptiles do indeed go into hibernation, but not in the thought of "traditional" hibernation, such as that of a bear or other mammals. Reptiles usually do burro...
This should sound more generic than only for a safety stop during a dive. I had this issue that during the swim as well, that I had to constantly fight to keep from rolling to one side, or to keep ...
Here is a quick reference : CMAS PADI Equivalent CMAS 1 Star Diver Open Water Diver CMAS 2 Star Diver Rescue Diver (with verification of Night and Nav...
If it's a nice summer's day at lowest avalanche warning level in mid altitude you can still be hit by an avalanche and die. That being said in reference to the answer of @BenCrowell and the comment...
Mountain distress signals vary slightly depending on what country you're in. In the UK, the general distress signal is to use a whistle (Alpine distress signal), not a torch. This is so it can be i...
I've just ordered a large set of Spaghetteria packages, such as: Spaghetteria Funghi Spaghetteria Spinaci Aktiv Muschelnudels mit Frühlingsgemüse ... and many others Those are functionally iden...
I can agree with DavidR - it's the heritage of "old school". Some (like, 10) years ago, materials and sewing technologies were less perfect. My first harness had a much less durable belay loop, th...
You left out a lot of particulars, like who exactly "we" is and whether you expect to camp for several days away from civilization, or will drive around enough that getting to a grocery store once ...
My preferences are to minimize stove time. To my mind if you have a stove and a cooler that's luxury and you should have no problems at all. In the mornings I like to just boil a kettle, no stove a...
There's a lot of variation between radios. There's even a great deal of variation for a given set. I own a pair of radios advertised as "35-mile range." I don't believe that's false, but it's proba...
Family Radio Service, the most commonly available walkie talkies, operates on frequencies around 460 MHz. The power is limited to only 500 mW, and as such is very limited. Wikipedia reports that th...
The range mostly depends on the power of your radio. 500 mW is OK, 5 W is much better. You should study what frequency ranges and what maximum power are allowed in your country for public, and go f...
One option is to ask the land owners. In an attempt to answer your question... According to the Outdoor Magazin: Anyone under a tarp - a waterproof tarp stretched - stayed overnight, camping o...
I agree with the fact that as the sole of the shoe gets thinner it becomes harder. Which would be awkward for running purposes. It also depends on how you land. If you land on the ball of your foo...
So, like I said, I'm not a great expert on using duct tape and moleskin. I'm writing an answer because someone specifically asked. :) My experiences: First off - applying duct tape or moleskin ...
