Activity for Benedikt Bauer
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A: Why are unequalised anchors acceptable for fixed-point belay systems used while ice climbing? Ice screws have a tendency for pressure melting if constantly loaded over some time. Therefore if you build your fixed point belay system and and keep it under more or less constant load while belaying your partner, the screw might start to migrate as the ice below it melts slowly and refreezes above... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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A: Gloves for alpine tours in summer From looking at the pictures I would say that for the "default" conditions at summer glacier/alpine tours they should be perfectly fine. In dry but slightly coldish conditions they will give you good grip and rope handling, as long as you don't have to dig through snow with them. The reason why you ... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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A: Advantages of types of sleeping bags over another Basically it boils down to "less weight for the same insulation" in favour of the mummy type for two reasons: In a blanket type bag you have more or less two insulating sheets, one on top and one below your body. For a mummy type maybe a bit more than the area of one of those sheets would be enough ... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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Is there any upper temperature limit for a given sleeping bag? 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 sleep snuggly down to -30° C and even below. But what about the other side? Let's say, I buy a sleeping... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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A: What does an X chamber construction in a sleeping bag look like? The "X chamber" construction is the most simple way to enclose the filling into chambers: the inner and outer fabric are just quilted together, forming tubular chambers that are filled with loft material, as it is known from most down jackets. It is often also named "sewn-through", e.g. in this artic... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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What does an X chamber construction in a sleeping bag look like? 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 explaining the form of "H", "V", and "trapezoid" chamber constructions with all their pro's and con's, ... (more) |
— | about 10 years ago |
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A: Transfer data from Suunto Ambit2 without Movelink According to everything I have found on the web and experienced with my own watch, the watch will not register as mass storage so that you could access the recorded logs directly. Therefore you cannot just plug the watch to a random computer and copy he logs like it was a USB thumb drive. But, there... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: When should I retire my rope If you ask the rope manufacturers they typically advise to drop a rope after between two and ten years depending on the usage. For most non-professional climbers I would typically head more towards ten than towards 2 years, as long as there haven't been any incidents that substantiate suspicion that ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Is it possible to check the safety of a used climbing rope? Unless other gear like e.g. harnesses which are designed to take a certain load over and over again, climbing ropes get kind of "used up" with every fall they have to take. According to UIAA and other norms they have to take a certain number of falls with certain conditions (weight, fall factor etc.)... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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Is it possible to check the safety of a used climbing rope? In the comments to my answer on Can you use a rope that has been in storage for a few years? the question arose if one could have some expert check a used rope whether it is still safe to use. As answering this question would go a bit beyond the scope of the referenced question, I put it here as a ne... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Can you use a rope that has been in storage for a few years? In general climbing ropes are quite robust in terms of storage. The Safety Research Group ("Sicherheitskreis") of the German Alpine Club (DAV) has done a lot of research about this in the 90ies and their general result was: as long as they aren't exposed to sunlight or aggressive chemicals or have be... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Strengthening exercises for a backpacking trip? There are basically two things to distinguish. The one is overall fitness, stamina, and core strength, the other is to endure some of the stress of the backpack on your shoulders over longer time. For the former you can train by running or biking for fitness and core strengthening exercises for the ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Does sandpapering finger tips improve rock climbing? If you ever have climbed some days in granite and tried to hold a hot coffee mug afterwards, you will know that sanding away your skin isn't a great idea especially to improve your climbing performance. But there may be two cases where sanding could be useful: Shortening finger nails, as sanding ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Do you need to purify all mountain water sources I think your assumptions are correct. To my knowledge in a mountain environment you are quite safe as long as you follow some simple rules, which you mostly already named: The water was not standing, i.e. it comes from a stream that is rather fast and the stream is big enough that it is not just ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Do higher shoes breathe less? I assume that by hiking shoes you mean robust hiking shoes which are more or less closed (i.e. not consisting of mesh material or the like). In terms of breathability it is also a huge difference if the shoe consists just of leather or fabric or if it has some breathable membrane such as Gore Tex. I... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Sleeping pad inside or outside bivy bag? I don't know how robust the waterproof bottom of your bivy bag is, but with the bivy bags I know (which are predominantly some kind of mountaineering emergency equipment) I would not want to put the sleeping pad into them. The reason is simply, that bivy bags are designed to give a good weather insul... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: What Rope to purchase? None of the information you give about your planned use case sets any limitation to a standard dynamical sports climbing rope. Also you won't notice small differences in the specs especially as it is your first rope to buy. Those different specs will only make a difference as you bring a rope to its ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Walking up the slopes. To walk brisk or to walk slow? As already said in WedaPashi's answer, the question in my personal experience is not so much about fast and slow. It is mainly about finding your own rhythm and walking speed that you can then sustain for long times. Whenever I go too fast, I come to a state where I have to take a rest, after some m... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Cramping Fingers I have to admit that I am no health professional but to me it sounds like you are just trying to climb harder that your muscles allow after your climbing break. The problem with restarting any physical activity after some time of being away from it is, that your brain and the memory of your motor sy... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Is it really that unsafe to touch a stranger's wound? As for the reason why it is risky: You cannot know if the guy you want to help has any disease that can be transferred via blood contact, such as HIV or Hepatitis. Already small wounds in your own skin –you might not recognize it as a wound at all– might be enough to transfer the diseas... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Difference between Gore-Tex Pro Shell and Gore-Tex Active Shell Outdoorgearlab has some quite nice compilation of different shell materials with their history and use cases. If you boil it down with respect to your questions then Active Shell is lighter and smaller and is significantly more breathable but at the cost of durability. As the guys from Outdoorgearla... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Keeping the things interesting in a small climbing gym If hard and easy routes run superimposed, ie. there are hard and easy routes on the same belay chain, you could try to climb the hard route while using some of the holds from the easy route where necessary. If that is not possible, because hard and easy routes are separate, but you are able/allowed ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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A: Advantages to hammock camping on multi-night trips Not a hammock camper (not a camper at all...) I can imagine another advantage that hasn't been named yet: As you are not on the ground you don't have to be afraid of water on the ground. So especially in rainy weather where the soil cannot handle all the water you have to take some measures to secure... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |
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