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Removing the blazes looks like an attempt to 1- return the wilderness to its natural character, and 2- discourage use. Nowhere in the Whites could realistically be called a wilderness in my book, there's just too many darn people. The areas are federally designated as wilderness, but...

But don't the quills work their way in deeper the longer they're left in? So wouldn't cutting allow potential for them to dissappear?

I've had several rounds of quill pulling with dogs. I've never heard of cutting them, what are the benefits of doing this? For my dog it would only make a smaller target to aim for, as he HATES having any type of metal hinged object near his face. I have used a multi-tool to pull quills in...

Earlier this month I purchased a Mountain Hardwear Hammerhead 2. My initial reaction at the store was that at 7 pounds it was waaay too heavy. But, the guy did a good job of selling me on it's features. I used the tent for a week in Arizona and then this weekend for 2 nights. I frickin love...

Thanks for all the quick responses! I wound up going with a Mountain Hardwear Hammerhead 2. I found it on sale here for $200. It's one pole short of being the Trango 2! Looks like it could easliy stand up to winter trips. It's heavier than I really wanted, but it's DELUXE inside. I took...

Well, I'm actually going to Prescott and then the Grand Canyon. Prescott has a little different forcast! :) Figures, when I went in Feb I espect it to be warm and it snowed the first day. Now I was expecting it to be dry and it's going to rain... :rolleyes:

As I'm packing to head to Arizona for a week of school and camping I notice that my singlewall tent has more small holes than I care to try and patch with duct tape. It's going in the trash; and I'm not taking the 9 pound four-season tent for just me. I need a new tent, fast! The tent...

And what a great fluff thread it is! When I made the original post I was annoyed that fluff was getting trashed in the "sorry" thread, because it is such a big part of discussions here. That was my point with the list of thread titles. I don't have anything against any of those threads, I...

Although they once were the leaders in the pack business, it has been my experience that Kelty packs are not that great. They're okay for the price, but the ones I used and seen in use are not very comfortable. Currently I own a smaller REI pack and a larger Lowe Alpine pack. The REI pack...

Alright, so I'll be honest, the whole "sorry for posting something that might not have been seen as quality discussion content" crap makes me nauseated. Come on, the nuts and bolts gear head convos can only be sustained for so long, so the fluff makes for nice interludes. And hey, a lot can be...

... I think the term is "survival of the fittest"

My hands (and feet) are perpetually cold. Everyone here has good advice, especially the bit about keeping your wrists warm. For me, it almost doesn't matter the combination of gloves and/or mittens, my hands always get cold at some point. Hand warmers bum me out because it seems kind of...

I'm sticking with Fisher. It's easy to say it's this, this, or this, but you have to look at what is in front of you objectively. The photo shows no size reference, but it was stated the tracks are about 2 inches by two inches. That could be a whole range of animals! It's often damn hard to...

The toes look long to be a fox. I can't tell if there are 4 or five toe prints there, but my vote is fisher.

I just got back from my first trip out on the Alpina Cross Terrain BC skis. I bought them yesterday and had Rosignol NNN BC bindings put on and I got Rosignol BC-X3 boots. I was out in about 2 feet of heavy new snow on an open trail and did some cutting through the woods. It was sooooo much...

I downhill skied for a couple of years before converting to a snowboards for most of my under 20 years. I got bored (and broke) with snowboarding so I bought xc skis. Having always had the stiff ankles and lots of control, I found myself feeling very uncoordinated and akward with soft ankled...

Nice photo of the fam!

I read somewhere that it was reasonable to assume that a bearing could be up to 6 degrees off. I've set up several canoe orienteering courses where students paddle to a certain spot and take a bearing accross the lake. Inevitabley they all complain that my bearings are off no matter how many...

There was slush on top of ice on the lakes near the channels. Must have been water from the channel rising above the level of the ice on the lake. There wasn another spot near the shore with slush on top of ice. I've always been pretty freaked out about walking on ice, just the thought of...

This weekend I had my first experience with going through ice in the winter. I'm curious about why. This weekend a friend and I camped near a lake quite far from any main roads. We planned to cross a frozen lake then up a channel and across another lake. We had heard that someone went...