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I agree..... Dorsey is Carl Hiassen on speed...... I picked up one at a used book store, read it, and went back for the rest the series.... All revolve around a manic, drug addled, serial killer who...

DWM... this is from the Forest Service Manual for the HIgh Uintas Wilderness in Utah..... not sure if all Forest Service areas adopt the same definition but it does sketch out when a road is a road...

Many moons ago, I was stationed at a very small RAF base in England. There were only a handful of U.S.A.F. personnel. Custom had it that someone leaving the late shift -- we ran a transmitter base...

A great adventure story is Wilfred Theisenger's ARABIAN SANDS.... great descriptions of Bedouin culture.

Tim Cahill's collections of essays: PECKED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH, OR...

See the following article....

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19618

Bunbun

Would you post a source for this statement.... Thanks...

1/ over 100 intelligence agencies from every major country in the world, including Syria, Egypt, Russia, France, Germany, Spain,...

see the paper on Field Evidence of Eastern Cougar
sitings by teh Eastern Cougar Foundation

http://www.easterncougar.org/

What amazes me about Survivor is that all of the players had been there before, all knew the importance of fire, most knew about the difficulty of starting a fire, all knew well in advance they were...

a source for information on mass extinctions can be found at http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event.

Additional links will take you to discussions of the various explanations for each of...

Old Fhart,

Great article....thanks for recommending it....The article is not about global warming, per se, but about the way the media digests or misdigests scientific evidence... Has tremendous...

streamweaver

got an extra 4 or so inches on top of the 5 inches dropped yesterday..... Probably not as much as the Ellicot CIty area as the heaviest stuff was to the west of Towson... happy hiking...

The Pinnalce pants are the most "technical" with leg zips and the nylon patches. Neither are going to be really good at blocking the wind or water. I use plain polartec pants under cheap windpants...

Manufacturers make superlite poles, in part, by reducing the length. My old Komperdells (REI Haute Route) extended to 58" compared to a little over 51 for the Lekis you bought. My current poles...

A similar discussion is posted under GENERAL GEAR / GETTING THRE STINK OUT? I posted the following... This worked very well for me...

"Thanks to all who gave advice...I was intrigued by the...

Does anyone have any experience with the down sleeping bags sold by Campmor under the Campmor label? I'd like to hear about the quality of the bags.

Thanks

FYI, Treadwell was the author of the book AMONG GRIZZLIES which documents his experiences living in close proxmity to bears in Alaska....check out the reviews on Amazon...

I use a heavy, contractors trash bag for a ground cloth....I cut down the sides so it would unfold lengthwise...plenty wide, plenty long.. Mucho cheap....

Try here:

http://www.geocities.com/missjanetshouse/

An article on the impacts of Trekking Poles

Trekking Poles: Can You Save Your Knees—and the Environment?
By Jeffrey L. Marion, Teresa A. Martinez, and Robert D. Proudman
From the Register,...

From the Baltimore Sun

POINT OF ROCKS - The Potomac River overran its banks in communities upstream from Washington on Saturday as rainwater from Hurricane Isabel coursed toward the Chesapeake...

Mini-Mosey...

what's going on with the rivers in HF.....flooding?

Squirrel Bait.....hope you don't have to change your name to fish bait.....best of luck with Isabel....

Hi...I'm from Towson... The projected path of the hurriance this morning showed it passing directly over Western Maryland. The area around the A.T. is likely to feel the brunt of whatever remains of...

Dreamer....sent out.... I checked my site and, lo and behold, I had uploaded four of the spreadsheets. I will put the 5th one up shortly....

Anyone may access these at: ...

Don't know....don't recall posting it.....I'll have to check tomorrow... send me an address and I'll just ship them all out to you...