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The rumors or chemical leaching has had me nervous about lexan for a while. I asked what people's opinions were on metal bottles at least once before on here. The upshot of that thread was pretty much 'no' for winter. I don't foresee any issues with mistaking my water bottles for fuel...

After much debate on water bottles I finally made the switch to Siggs. I made the switch just as I left to spend 9 days in Canada winter camping. I was pretty apprehensive about how the bottles would work, but I had been thinking about the switch for quite a while. My main concerns with...

I have a similar problem. It's the curse of wide ball/narrow heel... My boots even have that "thermo-fit" stuff in them and I still get heel lift. Just a little, it rubs the inside of my heels raw. They don't even blister; they go straight to raw and bloody. My heels blister with snowshoes...

three words- get metal edges

What it boils down to is a failure to recognize and respect the dangers of winter environments (or other seasons too). So many people go out these days, and new technology makes it relatively easy to do. Look at cotton for instance. It used to be a fabric that many people wore outside in the...

I picked up a pair of Alpina backcountry skis last winter with NNN BC bindings and Rosignol BC boots. I thought about them all summer long. Now that the snow is here I can't get enough. They are so much fun. The skis look like downhill skis, wide and shaped. They have metal edges and 3/4...

Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book reccomends making a heel lift with a piece of 1.5 or 2 inch PVC pipe. Cut two pieces that are about as long as you boot is wide. Run a strap or bungee cord through it and put it around your foot so the pipe rests just under the heel of your boot...

I have a pair of Tubbs Discovery 27s that I bought nearly 8 years ago. They are the bottom of the line Tubbs and have the pivot strap as pictured above in the first post. I have beat the crap out of those snowshoes and they still work as well as the day I bought them. I go winter backpacking...

If your feet are that wet and cold does it really matter what kind of socks you are wearing? Aren't they all going to freeze to your feet?

Are you serious? There are good and bad leaders everywhere, it doesn't matter what side of the country you live on.

I think there's a big difference when something is advertised as 'beginners winter camping trip' with an official organizer posting equipment lists as opposed to someone on a board like this saying 'Hey, I'm going here anyone wanna come too?". The way things go these days, unless you've got...

How long does it take you to adjust to the increased diet of a camping trip? I experience this on most trips I go on: The first few days I stuff my face and am super full. Then on about the 4th or 5th day something happens and I get super hungry and can't eat enough. Does this happen to...

Yeah, so how is that better than having a fire?? This is what really is getting me right now. Use a stove to cook, use a stove to cook, don't have a fire unless you have. Sure, I understand these are guidelines- but it's stoves, stoves, stoves. All we are doing is displacing the impact. Why...

I also eat all of those darn plastic shopping bags because I can't figure out what to do with them either. Then I dig a cathole! :D

There are several arguments with banana peels and apple cores being tossed in the woods. One, essentially it's litter. Two, it may be non-native which might particularly be a problem if it still contains seeds. Three, animals may find and eat it which then it doesn't matter what kind of food...

I totally agree. Leave No Trace is like 'stop global climate change now", it's virtually impossible and presents an unattainable ideal to those who are asked to follow it. Minimize impact is much better. Often when I teach LNT that's the response I get, "well, we're going to leave some...

According to Winter: An Ecological Handbook, there are more than one factors that determine when a weasel changes color. It is a complex phenomenon influenced by the animals' internal clock and environmental cues. The internal clock is affected by the changes in light (photoperiod), which in...

Leave No Trace. What do you think about it? I took a LNT master educator course 5 or 6 years ago. Since then I've gone through different phases of LNT followership. For a long time I was super-LNT an annoyed all of my camping buddies. Don't touch that rock! No fires! Walk in the CENTER of...

Thanks for reposting the link. Roadkill is such a great opportunity to see animals that you might not otherwise. Yeah, sad it's dead, but make use of the opportunity. Cool photo. Without looking at any sources this moment, my guess is that the change in sunlight signals the change. I recently...

I never taste plastic in my lexan bottles- even with boiling water. Yucky water/melted snow/iodine/floaties- yes, plastic no. Now, put some chocolate milk in there, leave it set in the car for a few days and then try and tell me it doesn't retain flavors, ha! :eek: I do like the stainless...