Karen‭

I'm an extremely nearsighted person who has trouble with contacts and spends a whole lot of time being active outdoors. As a result, I've done a lot of investigating into prescription sunglasses, a...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

I'd treat a new acrophobic hiker the same way I would any other new hiker I was out with. I start out by asking them what they are comfortable with before we even start, as well as what their fitne...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

I have three tents, including an ultralight Big Agnes Fly Creek 2. The others are dome tents, including a Eureka Tetragon 2 and a Big Agnes four man tent. The Fly Creek is extremely light, but I ...

posted 10y ago by Karen‭

This is not a survival technique. The way to determine how many calories is in a particular food item is to measure the amount of heat energy emitted when an item is burned. Anything burned to as...

posted 9y ago by Karen‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

If it is clean, fresh snow, it is safe to drink. This is basically drinking rain water. It hasn't had time to pick up pollutants when it is newly fallen. I live in New England, and kids do this all...

posted 9y ago by Karen‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by System‭

If your tarp is heavy duty enough, I'd expect it to work. Most blue plastic tarps are fairly thin and weak, so while it might work, it would be risky. The difficulty is that you will be abrading ...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

You will pick up ticks by spending a lot of time outdoors, but I routinely find them after walking across 10 ft of grass between my car and my front door. No matter how much prevention you practice...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

In addition to the answers already mentioned, I prefer red light while outdoors in the summer because it seems to attract fewer insects. I always seem to have more insects flying around my face if ...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

I want to go backpacking with a couple friends, but I'm the only one of us with any experience, and I mostly day hike. I've only done a couple of backpacking trips. They've never backpacked, and on...

8 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Karen‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by System‭

Waterproofing is one of the most important things to the average camper, so an reasonable quality, inexpensive tent will stay dry through mild rains and occasional thunderstorms, and if the tent i...

posted 7y ago by Karen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

That kind of problem is miserable, but fairly common. There are a few things I'd suggest to solve it. Good, wicking underwear. It sounds like you've tried at least one version, but it is wo...

posted 7y ago by Karen‭

One summer job, I needed shoes to walk on a rocky beach, sometimes in the water, for 5 to 10 miles per day all summer. Stretchy neoprene shoes were terrible for this- no traction and no support. S...

posted 7y ago by Karen‭

Genetics is one factor contributing to a deer's antler size, but certainly not the only factor. In many cases, maybe most, it isn't even the most important factor. Age: Young bucks that aren't ful...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

I live an area where a lot of the woods was farms a hundred years ago. 50 years ago it was bushy fields, now it's heavily wooded with increasingly narrow cart paths running through it. A lot of the...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭

Make the trip short and easy. Better to have them wishing for something longer than regretting that they're stuck on the trail. Just spend one night on the trail, in good weather if you can arrange...

posted 8y ago by Karen‭