Ideas you can use this week
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Most people who end up cold on a walk did not underdress. They overdressed at the car, walked uphill in everything they owned, soaked their base layer in the first twenty minutes, and then…
Read the article →Navigation goes wrong slowly. Almost nobody takes one dramatic wrong turn. What happens is that you stop paying attention on an obvious path, the cloud comes down, and twenty minutes later you are standing…
Read the article →The forecast on your phone is for the town at the bottom. It is not wrong, it is just answering a different question. A summit two thousand feet above that town can be ten…
Read the article →Someone who slept badly on their first camping trip almost always blames the bag. They were cold, the bag said three season, therefore the bag is a liar. Occasionally that is true. Far more…
Read the article →Children and dogs have one important thing in common on a walk: they will not tell you when something is going wrong. A child will keep trudging while getting quietly, dangerously cold. A dog…
Read the article →A blister is not a sign that you are soft. It is skin layers sliding against each other, over and over, until they separate and the gap fills with fluid. Heat and moisture make…
Read the article →Ask around about why a jacket stopped working, or why a sleeping bag that used to be warm no longer is, and the answers rarely involve the outdoors at all. The jacket was washed…
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