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Yes but I was backpacking at the time so I had everything needed to spend the (extra) night. Got into a spot of trouble during a solo winter-hiking trip (with only a handful of winter-hikes under my belt at the time). I foolishly extended my itinerary. Exhaustion suddenly came over me and I...

If you have an Android phone and are looking for a top-notch backcountry navigation app, I highly recommended Locus Map Pro. It's on sale for US$3.49 until the end of December. It is also eligible for sharing via Family Library so one license entitles you to install it on all your Android...

If you encounter a problem with the operation of any legacy program running on Windows 10, you can specify to have it run in "Compatibility Mode" (i.e. have Windows 10 appear to the quirky program as, say, Windows 7). You can also run the Compatibility Troubleshooter and have Windows suggest the...

Ha! Simple! I'll give that a try next time. Thanks! Regarding the clothing system that works for you, I don't wear that much and don't hike with any fleece garments so I can't be of any help on thick baselayers. FWIW, this is what works for me and I appreciate the fact it may not work for...

If you're willing to forego the tricot lining, this is the hoody I picked up a few years ago for $45. It's from Marmot and made of the same material as their "DriClime" garments (which simply add a tricot lining), namely "100% Polyester Ripstop DWR 1.5 oz/yd". Trail Wind Hoody Currently $59.50...

If it works for you great but the theory behind it isn't due to any magical properties of DriClime. Use any cheap synthetic garment with decreased air/vapor permeability. A garbage bag full of holes would work the same way. Not that I'm aware of. FWIW, Durable Water Repellent (DWR) causes water...

Obviously they didn't wear the same garments year-round but did employ a "fur-side in" garment for winter use (from here): From this site (which also has excellent photos of traditional Inuit garments): A few pics from the Canadian History Museum.

I read this part again and it doesn't add up. The DriClime shirt is made of uncoated, membrane-free, plain-vanilla, polyester fabric with good vapor-permeability. I fail to see how it "prevents moisture getting into the mid layers". To prevent your body's humidity from reaching mid-layers, you...

Pretty sure Marmot's Driclime clothing is just vanilla polyester with DWR to shed mist and drizzle. https://www.marmot.com/driclime-windshirt/51020.html There's no coating/membrane involved. It's just a wind-resistant, drizzle-shedding, synthetic fabric lined with fuzzy tricot. It's like a...

The coordinates of the "screen center" are displayed in the browser's URL like so: labs.strava.com/heatmap/#15.38/-73.88776/44.21842/hot/all However, there's no crosshair displayed at "screen center" so it's an impractical way of achieving what you want. You don't need to do the backflips you...

It creates a crapton of unnecessary points. For a trail that I manually defined with 7 points, identifying all major inflections, Slide used 30 points, nearly 4 times the data. I've seen ways in OSM that were obviously traced from a single GPS track and defined using a bajillion points because...

Yes. JOSM supports TMS (Tile Map Services), WMS (Web Map Services), and WMTS (Web Map Tile Services). Here's a list of maps it supports by default: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Maps You can, of course, display other maps as long as they are rendered using one of the three aforementioned...

I've used Strava's Heatmap to add/modify High Peaks hiking trails in OpenStreetMap (OSM). You're not allowed to use a proprietary source as a mapping reference for OSM (like Google Maps). Fortunately, Strava allows its heatmap tracks to be traced for use in OSM. Normally, I'll try to collect...

Another well-worn (and braided) shortcut: https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13.73/-71.28505/44.21590/hot/run

Strava recently released their 2017 Global Heatmap. There's far more data in it compared to the previous one (2015). While perusing it, I remembered this thread and had a gander at the Black Pond bushwhack. It's fascinating to see how braided the tracks become in that short distance. Switch...

@egilbe Thanks! I agree that some articles have demonstrated "lazy journalism" and mixed up PLBs and SPOTs. In CatskillMountaineer's case, they don't appear to be accidentally transposing the devices but go out of their way to prove it was a SPOT. "The final SAR report ... they only...

Ditto. I brought it up because the CatskillMountaineer article implied the SPOT mishandled the situation compared to a PLB. The article states the SPOT's eleven SOS transmissions, with differing geolocations, misled the SAR team. They implied the PLB would not do this. They're intimating the PLB...

Yup, we're on the same page here. A limitation of how many bits allocated to represent lat/long hamstring the PLB's accuracy. I suppose the 121.5 MHz "homing" beacon could be used to zero-in on you ... assuming the SAR team has equipment to detect the signal. Although I believe the "homing"...

The definitive answer to that question will need to come from someone who personally did an inventory of the equipment she had. It seems like for every "she had a SPOT" one can find "she had a PLB". For example, in this post, DougPaul cited a reference indicating she had a PLB. If she had a...

Bloomberg's "The Trader in the Wild" article, published in 2015, identified the device (as well as other items she had). https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-trader-in-the-wild/