Benedikt Bauer‭

I'm actually shopping for a new sleeping bag and am a bit in doubt about a question that I do not find treated anywhere: By investing an arbitrarily huge amount of money I can buy a sleeping bag to...

5 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

At the moment I'm online shopping around a bit for down sleeping bags. I came across some sleeping bags that are specified to have an "X chamber construction". I have found lots of online resources...

1 answer  ·  posted 11y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

I guess to understand the use of a campus board it's the easiest to have a look at it's genesis: The campus board was invented by Wolfgang Güllich, who was with Action Directe the first to climb t...

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

Foreword I fear it will be a bit complicated to get scientific reference for the answers to your questions as those things might be important but too less to be published. Therefore most of the ev...

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

"Freeing" a route does basically mean to climb a route, which up to then was only aid climbed, in free climbing style for the first time (i.e. using only the natural holds for gripping and stepping...

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by System‭

If I interpret your question correctly, your problem is not so much about the climbing itself but more about the strategy, i.e. to identify where to rope up and where to remove the rope again. As ...

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

It's a round trip. Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory. - Ed Viesturs and of course, It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves - Sir Edmund Hillary

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by System‭

In this article in the bergundsteigen journal (unfortunately in German) the authors, one of whom is a known Swiss expert in the development of avalanche rescue systems and techniques, did a review ...

posted 10y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭

Sharing and downloading routes done by others Concerning sites where you can upload and share GPS tracks you could have a look at http://www.gpsies.com/. There are lots of GPS tracks for hiking, c...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

Wikipedia is basically right – you can safely eat it (according to the German Wikipedia article the whole plant, however, the leaves are the most used part) and here in Germany they sometimes even ...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

This answer is not exclusive to archery but concerns basically any activity where there are certain implicit rules that are widely agreed on in the community and are written down explicitly for com...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

As far as I could extract it, the general question contained in your text is something like: This year in October I saw a lot of robins, male and female, finches and chickadees, and geese flyin...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭

I would say that this guy at the hut was plain wrong. As far as I'm concerned, the working principle of the Gore-Tex membrane is gradient-driven. That means, the membrane itself (if you consider o...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

Olin Lathrop's very good answer to the question you reference basically already contains most of the information needed also your gut feeling about the topic is quite right. So let's look at it in ...

posted 9y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭

Having read about the recent foot traverse of Antarctica by Colin O'Brady I was wondering which means the polar explorers of former, pre-GPS times used to determine that they had reached the North ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Benedikt Bauer‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭