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I also did Isolation via this route. A bit long, but the Camel Trail was very nice. (Also included Monroe--after all, it was hardly off-route...)

Doug

I also use the lotion form of both DEET and Picaridin. If only spray is available, I spray it onto my hand, then transfer it to its intended location.

DEET (and likely also Picaridin) tastes...

DEET in one's eyes is also very irritating. (I have had the misfortune of being ~50 ft downwind of someone using a DEET spray...)

My theory is that since DEET is an oily organic solvent it's less...

The key factor in the moon illusion is the location of the moon in the sky--it appears larger when it is close to the horizon than when it is high in the sky. It's a perceptual illusion rather than...

Sorry to hear about your accident (a little late, but hopefully better late than never). As you know, I pulled a similar stunt a number of years ago... (Broken hip, distal femur, and wrist, all...

Thanks for the heads-up. Swede Mountain was an old family favorite. My father and I were disappointed when we went to hike it (?? years ago) and found the trail to have been closed.

Doug

Sodium (chloride = table salt) is the primary electrolyte in electrolyte drinks. Some salt at dinner (along with water) is often helpful in restoring one's hydration level.

Doug

It's bad over most of the country right now. Not good for breathing if the smoke reaches the ground (and bad to devastating to astrophotography...)

smoke map: https://fire.airnow.gov/
air...

I broke my hip (femoral neck) and femur (spiral fracture just above the knee) in a BC skiing accident fifteen years ago. Repair was two screws in the hip and a nail (placed from the knee end) in the...

I have an old Garmin 60CSx with pre-week-number rollover software. If I fire it up after it has been off for a day or so, everything is fine. However, if I turn it off and back on a short while...

Our base was in Columbia (central MO) and our observing site was a church-yard in Marion, IL. The pastor was observing it himself and invited us to join him. All 130 of us... The traffic jam on...

In general, mountainous regions are poor places to view an eclipse--the probability of clear skies is low and if the local area is cloudy the roads will clog up rapidly.

In 2017, I was with a...

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I wasn't in pain, but I knew my femur was broken. I was working on getting my pack off when another solo skier arrived. (I would have been able to get it off.) He helped...

Many without local experience also underestimate the weather in the Whites. After all, the tallest peak is only 6288 ft--how bad can it get? But as those with local experience know, the weather in...

Rottefella Super-Tele bindings have been my standard binding for many years for both BC and XC. I recommend them.

All of my skis (including Tele) use 75mm bindings (up to heavy Tele cable...

(no text required, but vBulletin wants some. D.)

And in the 70s, we would lash a crampon half (from a crampon with a broken hinge) or an instep crampon to the bottom of our flat bearpaw snowshoes. EMS sold a bolt on version.

That was back in...

You only use that "feature" on extra-cold days.

Doug

I concur.

It comes down to the spreading ratio (R, the average number of people infected by 1 infected individual). If it is less than than one, the epidemic will die out, if greater than one the...

It sounds like you are seeing the basemap rather than the topo maps, which are presumably on the SD card.

SD cards are pretty robust so it may have survived the fall.

(I don't have a 64, so...

Lithium-ion (rechargeable) batteries degrade with both use and time.

To maximize their lifetime:
* store in the refrigerator when not in use, ideally at 40% charge.
* do not charge or discharge...

Topo Active maps are 100K scale topos. The 24K topos are generally better for hiking.

I have both 100K and 24K scale maps on my GPSes and generally use the 24K.

Doug

A GPS is often far more accurate than a trail as drawn on the map, so such a discrepancy is more likely to be a map problem rather than a GPS problem. A far better test is to walk the same trail...

Such a call time will result in lots of false call-outs to SAR and is also no guarantee of quick help. One is often back to the TH later than planned and IMO one should allow extra time when setting...

Thanks Tim!

Keeping a website going is a big job.

Doug