Black snakes also hunt and eat other snakes, quite successfully I might add...Came across black snakes making meals of copperheads and rattlers and many other snakes.
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Black snakes also hunt and eat other snakes, quite successfully I might add...Came across black snakes making meals of copperheads and rattlers and many other snakes.
I grew up in teh Appalacians and never had a problem locating myself on a topo...until i wasn't paying atention and hiked off the one I had with me that day...that was a tad frustrating for a few...
I put my 4 fingers and palm into my strap. I don't put it around my wrist. This gives me the ability to still use my fingers and hands, keep my pole or let it go with out it locking on my hand and...
oh my now if I could just type....cartwheel and bonobo......what's so hard about those words!
loving that description of your catwheeling Tipi...a red-headed bobonbo monkey on crystal meth...that mental image just makes me smile for some reason. Thanks
I find going down a steep incline sucks more than going up. I figure if I loose my traction goin up I'm going to face plant and slide on my belly so I can use my hands and toes to arrest myself....
I've had my pyrs and my sheppard both go on sitdown strikes in the winter here in TX...not hot being the point there....this is during along day hike. They will not go on any multiday hikes as a...
You realize that its entirely likely that more people have "summited" Katadin with external frame packs than with internal ones to date. peole hiked with externals for millenia...it does not decrease...
dang fat fingers...
the key is to practice....get the same quality of map for an area around you and practice with it.
In all reality you don't need to have a book..you can find literally everything you need to know online. i teach map and compass skills to my scouts and i pull stuff down all the time from a number...
don't most people cut straps off the pack...they weigh so much...:confused:
Seriously I second the polyester thread.
Your buddy is a gear head. Personally I think practicing your skills is important and I do so several times a year, not all at once and I always have back up just in case something doesn't go quite...
So the avid outdoorsman pack differnent than you spokes...what happened to HYOH? Keep in mind the avid outdoorsman is not going 2000 miles but maybe 20 round trip for a weekend of fishing at a...
the trap door is so you can pull out on the ice and open it, drill your hole and fish from the comfort of the RV.
I disagree the doomsday preppers seem to be horders to me. Massive stockpiles of food, water and fuel. They do have some self-sufficiency skills because they usually can fabricate and or fix stuff...
don't knock the powerwagon...;)
and if it were not for the avid outdoorsman that you all are afraid of there wouldn't be nearly as much outdoors for anyone to enjoy. those hunting and fishing license fees go to help support...
Personally I backpack and I'm an avid outdoorsman. I'll pack a few silly things like a colapsable fishing pole and a decent knife (do not think rambo...just a decent folding knife) and plan my hikes...
3 step process keeps me from having the monkey butt...it can get back there too...
1) clean and dry everything meticulously! no such thing as too dry!
2) (this is the important part for me)...
i love you all seem to look down at the outdoorsman just more WB snobbery. LW is almost exactly right...the outdorrsman doesn't hike but he left out the part about many (not all) hikers that can't...
biggie master is chuck norris.
chuck norris never sweats there for he hever stinks
therefore the air around biggie master is always fresh and sweet....
Yep everything from the shelves and wiring in the store to a cheap ring or necklace can make a compass go goofy.
The baseplate models are the easiest to use in combination with a map. Having...
I always respected what LW said along with emerald (knew a ton of naturalist things...I always enjoyed those posts), sgt rock and Tipi walter heck even WWO creeps in there on my list of respected...
you have obviously not met some of my aunts....
YEah I've done the "I've hike far enough off trail to do my business" thing only to have the trail just feet from me quite a few times. Most of the timie I find out when I hike back to my original...