Loren Pechtel‭

Many, many companies offer 3 liter bladders. Only the dromedary units go above that and the reviews say they're hard to clean and in general are negative about using them as hydration bladders rat...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

The first thing that comes to mind to me is Kilimanjaro. It's almost 6,000m and my evaluation of it would be class 2 (I haven't seen any proper rating of it) and that only on the final ascent, get...

posted 8y ago by Loren Pechtel‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

Locally Search and Rescue doesn't charge but what happens if you're in an area where they do? They obviously have your name and address but it doesn't seem fair to bill the person who was prepared...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Loren Pechtel‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

We were out on a night hike. A helicopter showed up, by behavior it was search and rescue, looking not too far away from our group. It might have simply been doing training, but if it was a real ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

My color vision isn't perfect so I'm not completely sure what you're talking about on that map. I see two things on there that you might be talking about: 1) I see several paths with names that ...

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

I have had multiple encounters with wild horses in an environment where they are used to the presence of hikers. There was an obvious pattern where approaching within a certain distance (which isn...

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

You're almost certainly going at this the wrong way. For something like this you want a Garmin inReach unit--the costs are a lot lower. They only give you text messaging, no voice communications....

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

Some more factors here: 1) Even if the air in the air mattress was the same temperature as the outside air it has much less thermal capacity and thus will take your heat away slower. 2) An air ...

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

Pelican makes small cases for electronics. There is likely something of a size to do what you want.

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

I hike in an area where packing in all your water is the only option. For longer hikes when it's warmer one bladder won't hold enough. Does anyone make a practical way to connect two together so ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Loren Pechtel‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

(Note: Doesn't this belong on Worldbuilding??) Your question is inherently unanswerable as you are missing a key factor: The season. Look at that chart in wanderweeer's answer--note how the tem...

posted 8y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

Fisher Space Pen. Writes down to -30F and won't leak no matter what (say, from altitude changes going up a mountain.) https://www.spacepen.com/about-us.aspx (And I have no connection to them othe...

posted 8y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

I recently ran into a mention of the Coolfire system: https://coolfiretrainer.com/ My understanding of it is that it attaches to a real gun and simulates recoil. I have no experience with it. T...

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

This forum is worldwide, you're not going to get a good localized answer. I do have two suggestions, though: 1) Look at local hiking groups. I suspect you have Meetup groups, there might be oth...

posted 7y ago by Loren Pechtel‭

I'm not sure if it covers Canada or not but have you checked out the GaiaGPS app? It's phone rather than desktop but it can serve up topos at a variable scale, I just don't know how much of the wo...

posted 6y ago by Loren Pechtel‭