stevemarvell‭

If you are sweating in your sleeping bag all night then the insulation level is too high. Try wearing less or no clothing as well as your ventilation solution.

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

There is implicitly more dangerous about camping on your own. That is to say that the probability of something going wrong is no worse than with more than one person, in fact one person is less lik...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

The foam inside the mat prevents heat loss through convection which would be the case with the air if there was nothing to prevent it moving. This forms part of the open cell vs closed cell argumen...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

Foraging is NOT looking at a plant and deciding if it's edible, nor is it looking in a book at a plant and then going looking for that plant. It's not possible to learn all the plants and it's not ...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

button compass pencil sharpener magnifying glass (updates when I think of some more)

posted 10y ago by stevemarvell‭

They key to all smelly shoes is bacteria. From a prevention perspective, I always wash my feet before they spend a prolonged or arduous of time in shoes or boots. A good spray with an anti-bacteria...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

If you are being asked to boil water it has a biological contamination. Boiling would have no beneficial effect on chemically contaminated water. With this in mind, any chemical treatment would be ...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

"Waterproof" means that no water will penetrate. "Water resistant" means that there exists a limit of exposure at which water will penetrate. Watches are normally water resistant to a particular...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

It's really simple. The universe wants everything to be the same temperature so if we left the cooler in a sufficiently large, constant temperature environment, the cooler and all its contents woul...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

I would not advise putting wet socks anywhere near anything that's preventing you from getting cold if it would generate a risk of hypothermia through decreased insulation or increased heat conduct...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

When we get cold vasoconstriction occurs. This prevents the blood at the extremities being subject to heat conduction away from the body. This is not an adaption, this is a reaction. The body emi...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

There are two components to staying warm and it's all generally centred around thermodynamics. You want to stay at one temperature and physics wants you to become the temperature of the your enviro...

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

I suggest keeping it alive in a keep net. That way all of your problems disappear.

posted 11y ago by stevemarvell‭

Dehydration occurs when there is more water going out or being used than is going in. Additionally, if you're drinking too fast (more than a litre an hour for an average adult male), you're not abs...

posted 10y ago by stevemarvell‭  ·  last activity 10y ago by System‭

You might consider boiling it up with some berries, (suitable) plants or pine needles. In terms of treatment tablets, there are neutralisers to sort the taste out, but they are not perfect. For a...

posted 10y ago by stevemarvell‭