Lol yes... except more are due all weekend and we were aiming to pitch tonight :(
It's only a maintenance pitch... air the thing out and reseal some of the seams around prone to leak area so... not like I'm going to need to sleep in it
Below is the bare minimum list of gear I would require anyone on my team to carry during and rescue operation. It does not include any of the numerous pieces of rope equipment that members of the rope team would cary in addition to the basic equipment ( only specific team members that have comple...
Seems both an on and off topic to me... yes for the outdoors part, where is good to go, those style questions... specific maintenance questons seem like they will get a better response on bicycles.SE
I have a racer street bicycle without gears. I want to convert that into a geared one. For that I will need to modify the rear part of the frame where the wheel goes in. Is it advisable to do so?
@Aravona: Question like "What precautions should be taken if you are cycling off the road?" should really be on TGO, but something like "Getting a puncture fixed with minimum tools around" should go to bicyles.SE
@PaulPaulsen yeah I saw. Think thoae two should move... just questions like 'I'm going to [country] on holiday and am taking my bike... where is good to [do something]' seem in keeping with outdoors.SE
Since a lot of people ask questions similarpto that with backpacking
sorry for my horrendeous typing, didn't sleep with the storms and I'm mostly typing on a phone.
Just amended a tag wiki as it had Snorkeling/Snorkeling ... which seemed a bit silly... so made it Snorkeling/Snorkelling to include the English spelling instead of the US English one twice.
@WedaPashi possibly but this is just in the wiki not the tag itself. Even Wikipedia gives you alternate names / spelling in a wiki - but not in the title.
Abseiling is the only word I knew it as for years. It's what I was taught when I first did it.
but considering someone actually initially wrote snorkeling/snorkeling ... that just seemed redundant.
Also, Question Per Day hit 3 ... highest in forever?
@WedaPashi 'Rappelling, also called abseiling, is the controlled descent down a rock face using a rope.' so that would be the same, it includes another name ... for me 'Snorkling' comes up as a typo, lol.
@PaulPaulsen I hope so too! Going with a bunch of friends
This question just came up with 120000 calories a day for 'surviving longer periods of time' this seems huge to me? Anyone else heard of this fact? outdoors.stackexchange.com/q/6114/3313
I think the dividing line is the aspect of the question: Technical things about bikes don´t belong here. But questions about the outdoor aspect (nutrition, packing gear, route planning...) are on-topic
Back to that guys Tree question - suggested he altered it slightly as saying 'tree bark eating, yay or nay' is a one word answer. 'Is it worth it' is different. Plus 1200kcal a day as a recommendation for someone is... for an adult... terrifying.
1200kcal puts your body into a starvation mode, turning most of what you take in to pure fat. I had a friend trying to lose weight that way, I warned him, and when he stopped cutting himself to 1400kcal a day he actually got fatter.
he stated 'survival for longer periods of time' to me that implies piling it on not eating less than half what is recommended to simply live day by day
Though if his initial 500-600 calories per pound of treebark is correct that's better than eating two large apples. (116 calories in 223g of apple and 1 pound of bark is 453g)
@PaulPaulsen Too many people watch bear gryls and think this is what the outdoors is like. 99.9999% of people who go into the outdoors will never ever be in a situation where eating bark is helpful
@Liam Id rather just take hobnobs with me not exactly wild Britain.... though I do have a handy collins pocket book on British edible plants etc. My favourite is elderflower...
@Liam @PaulPaulsen ... ray mears is a lot more... here is some info... bear grylls whilst clearly knows his stuff as ex SAS ... goes over the top... drinks his wee... eats a eaw snake... then has a fully professionally cooked meal off camera...
@Aravona yeah, I know how bad bear grylls is. I enjoy les stroud. He always is alone, filming himself. And you see how bad his situation is. And he doesn´t kill or destroy just for fun or show.
@Liam: Was very surprised to see Gerber sell a lot of Bear Grylls stuff too. I thought they would do quality things, but I think I have to reconsider that.
@Liam but he acts like it is reality. For me its lying, and in this case, dangerous lying. Maybe everyone got used to be lied on TV, however, its no excuse for doing so. @Aravona he is canadian. His show is named "Survivorman", but he also has a nice documentary of his and his wife´s one year backcountry honeymoon
@PaulPaulsen I dislike him for the lack of honesty, but I have to respect the way he has got so many youngsters interested in the outdoors. When he came here, he met the local scout groups and was really positive.
@RoryAlsop he certainly does get people interested in the outdoors - plus I don't he started off too badly, all the shows were for entertainment value.
@RoryAlsop it's like he shows worst case scenarios in perfect safety, which is what a TV should do. I watch a show where a nature TV cameraman tried to stay in Canada for 3 months on his own with very little supplies - he was air lifted out after like 3 weeks because he spent too much time filming not enough time finding food.
@WedaPashi Getting kids off their backsides playing computer games, and out running around forests, learning how to build campfires etc - that's high value.
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On that front, any of you folks play Ingress?
www.ingress.com
A bit like geocaching, but in a virtual world through your smartphone. It's a game of global domination, written by google, and to play it you have to go to locations, meet other players etc.
@RoryAlsop: Definitely. The reason why I watch his show is: The way he goes about a descend, the way he goes about crossing a stream, climbs through chimneys.
Rest of things he does like: Making a shelter, eating insects, finding the direction using shadow and all that studd, We hardly need an expertise, bcoz we seldom don't have out gadgets with us
@RoryAlsop Skyrim both made me want to stay in and game and go out - have to say I've become a bit of a winter gamer (living near a forest helps you get out and about too)
@Aravona yep, and a barometer with a jar, a balloon, a needle and a cork
@Liam My kids love it. We go to castles, mountains, random places (all the 'portals' are key things tourists would want to go see - the spin off for google from this free game is lots of data on this sort of thing)
@Aravona you need to pop it. You boil water, pour it into a jar then seal the top with a balloon. As the water cools, it produces partial vacuum. This can be used as a barometer
@RoryAlsop Moneky Island 3 - you have to make a compass that way, brilliant that it's not just game fiction, I always enjoyed that.
btw in reference to yesterdays conversation on adding more bounties to good questions without enough answers- I'll get around to that when I have a tad more to spare :)
@Aravona I'll try and make time this weekend for a meta question on this whole topic to see how many folks are interested. Currently we only have 4 users over 5k, and only 2 over 10k, so it might not be that doable
Only 32 people over 2k - so we are still a very small site
@Liam and @RoryAlsop I don't mind sparing the odd 50 bounty here and there, but with only 512 I can't do it that often. Yesterday I gained 107 rep, so it isn't as though I couldn't gain it back again.
What is likely to be a better activity for now - and we did this on a couple of other sites I frequent - was to actively trawl through questions and answers looking for good ones to upvote (as no-one ever upvotes enough)
this promotes activity, brings some questions back to the front page, and helps rapidly move people up into higher rep tiers
which also leads directly to our eligibility for graduation
It is good practice on young sites to try and max out your votes each day. And if you upvote questions first you get more votes - can't remember the exact figures
Camping this year in Italy spoilt me... well call it Glamping... we had a fridge, a 5 hob cooker, proper beds... oh Eurocamp, they did make it easy to see Lake Garda on the cheap.
@Aravona very nice! I've taken to doing music festivals like this now - VIP camping packages. I take a 12 man bell tent, we get proper toilets, reasonable blow up beds, park the car next to the tent, preferred bar access. Oh, and showers!
@Liam still never seen Italy. Really want to get there.
(well - I've been to some city in the north but that was a visit to an office then back again)
@RoryAlsop and @Liam done Lake Garda twice now, it is... stunning - Glamped it and All inclusived it... amazing. I would Eurocamp again but been told of Eurosite now as well.
@WedaPashi smartphone based game of world domination. The teams claim portals (statues, castles, famous buildings etc) and link them to others to claim land. Land underneath a triangle of claimed portals belongs to that team
I have been a good gamer, who spent a lot of time gaming, only until was introduced to this new obsession called trekking. :) And I am glad that I did!
@Liam Looks like it's photo evidence based, so I guess you just need to send me a message in in-game comms (to @doktormayhem) saying thanks for inviting you, and if you then post up a picture of your phone showing that message that counts. Or maybe I just need to take a screenshot of the message arriving....not 100% sure :-)
Levelling up initially is a case of hacking and linking, but much faster if you link up with local level 8's or higher. They will set up attacks that you can benefit from.
Most coordination of big ops (eg national, international or even our Green Marble op (coverage of half the world) is all done through google+ groups)
So there are local, regional and national groups, as well as specific secret ops groups (usually L8's and above) who coordinate the crazy ops - like folks travelling thousands of miles to swap keys for portals etc
@Liam loads of points for you then. If that is the Queensferry near Chester, then there are a bunch of blue fields to the south of you (probably not takeable until you level up a bit) but a good bunch of stuff along the Dee
yeah you get a key for a portal by hacking it. You can link from a portal to another one you have a key for, as long as both have 8 resonators on. Making a triangle (field) claims the area under that field
You also have power up mods, grenades etc - all good fun
I tend to play on my commute, and when out hiking
Our top local players are folks like taxi drivers and bus drivers
You can try and compete in the local league tables, or just work towards the achievements. You can stay local or play at linking big fields (I was part of an op that linked iceland, scotland, wales, england, denmark, norway, spain and france)
which gets you meeting all sorts of folks, travelling up mountains, across rivers etc
I have also discovered so many places in Edinburgh (where I have lived since 1989) that I never knew existed
@Aravona if you like achievements, you will definitely like Ingress. Various badges, with bronze, silver, gold, platinum and black levels for each, plus rankings for you as a player (L1 to L8 based on points, then L9 to L16 based on points plus badges)
@Liam I had Three India keep calling me for a package... repeatedly... bless the poor woman - I kept telling her I didn't have a phone number ... and then ask she asked me to upgrade I responded with 'je ne crompende pas Anglais' ... then she hung up on me. I felt sorry for her, but I've been spam free since.
Natives from regions which are really hot and have a high sun intensity are wearing sometimes white/bright and sometimes black/dark colors.
I mean there has to be a better strategy in terms of heat budget and radiation protection (which seem to be the two main enemies).
Black absorbs the hea...
@Aravona Neither have any question so they'll eventually be deleted by the system. Careful not to spend too much time on tags that don't have questions or seem useless as they may disappear
Yeah true. Just not as neat as it could be an could bring a single tag to more usage. But still... 3.3 questions right now so... we are doing well. Chat seems I think to have helped somewhat... even just with community spirit :)
12 people have gained 200+ rep this month. Another 20 have 100+.
@WedaPashi -- So you made me think of this. Last time I went camping I managed to break a small tree branch off... in my head. Went right down to the bone.
@RussellSteen The epic part to LOL is the comment by ppl there ("This would be better suited as a (constructive) comment. :) Please use comments to respond to someone's answer and answers to respond to the original poster question.").. Can't stop laughing.. Weren't you tempted to say "Get lost and Get life?" :D
@WedaPashi I was very tempted to treat the poster as we treat spammers and just destroy the account, but took 5 minutes to think and came back to be polite about it
Great. Okay Guys, Time to go. End of day. Gonna ride to the mountains tonight and gonna have a 2-day rainy trek starting from tomorrow dawn. Hope you all have a safe and happy weekend! Take care, see you on monday!
I have a racer street bicycle without gears. I want to convert that into a geared one. For that I will need to modify the rear part of the frame where the wheel goes in. Is it advisable to do so?
Natives from regions which are really hot and have a high sun intensity are wearing sometimes white/bright and sometimes black/dark colors.
I mean there has to be a better strategy in terms of heat budget and radiation protection (which seem to be the two main enemies).
Black absorbs the hea...
