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Wow. For those keeping score at home, that's at 51.31º N, a latitude south of all of Alaska. I might not have to go all the way to James Bay or Churchill if my timing were right ...

As someone who speaks Norwegian, reveres bears, is proficient with a rifle and has wanted to go to Svalbard for the last forty years, let me just say:

O. M. G.

I also know about 100 Norwegians...

The price one pays for using an operating system that Mostly Sucks. Here's the doctor's prescription for what ails you:

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It's what's left of a moose after the coyotes, foxes, ravens, crows, jays, and beetles have had their fill. Virtually all cervid (moose, deer, etc.) remains in the woods end up looking like this. By...

Some observations:


It was very heartening to see a group of folks who knew how to act properly around this moose.
In deep snow like this, moose take a very proprietary interest in paths and...

Consider it done.

EDIT: It occurs to me that my linked translation might be misunderstood to mischaracterize what rocket was saying. I am certain, and never intended to imply otherwise, that he...

This is the essence of the discussion here. Some folks have an expectation of more information than others. Nothing we say will prove the rightness of where to draw the line. Personally, I think...

I consider it a diminution of my experience when I come across a trail sign. If the absence of signs and the occasional obscurity of a trail keeps the crowds at home, that's a big plus in my book....

Indeed. From the NOAA Space Weather Alerts

Space Weather Message Code: WATA30
Serial Number: 103
Issue Time: 2013 Apr 11 2115 UTC
WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted
Highest Storm...

Nor do I. I'll leave things there.

They're not all cuddly: Prosecutors seek to end myth of Utah mountain man

As regards the USFS campgrounds, only Hancock and Barnes Field are listed as officially open and plowed through the winter in the Developed Campgrounds brochure. In years past I've stayed at Wildwood...

Only my practice of not commenting on a defendant's guilt or innocence on the basis of pre-trial news reports restrains me here ...

"Video monitoring by refuge staff at the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge captured footage of a Canada lynx on March 1 at the Nulhegan Basin Division in Brunswick, Vt. The camera was...

And where else can you watch as a teenager in the summertime crowd looks down at the rubble under the summit marker and ask his father in all seriousness, "Just how did they get all these rocks up...

That was fantastic to read. Thanks.

The South Pole was first reached by skiing across Antarctica from the coast 102 years ago. That has since been duplicated many times. Similar journeys to the North Pole have been done as well. Doing...

Just to bring it full circle – here's a test of a backcountry electric fence setup that has become very popular in Alaska:

Bear Shocked with electric fence

Many hunting guides have been using...

Not a proposition I care to test:

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There is a LARGE minority of people in New England that have no concept of proper behavior. They're forever unzipping and/or dropping trou in my near-the-turnpike neighborhood because they're too...

Count me as among those unimpressed by anyone, of either gender, who gets a ride to within 60-70 nautical miles of the Poles, tags them, gets a ride out and then claims to have bagged them.

Without having seen the Dry River Trail in its current state, I will still speculate that it will not be reopened. The federal budget problems and the extensive damage suggest a very strong...

The locations are noted under the tiny "IMAGE INFO" link at the upper right of each one.

That's about as exuberant as a Norwegian is capable of being! Tusen takk.

Great TR. You probably had more contact with the Border Patrol in that area than all winter recreationists combined in the five decades before 9/11. :D

BTW, the Maine Warden Service actively...