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Owner of boards such as this one are protected by the Communciations Decency Act of 1996. In general, no site owner liability for third party content. See article linked here: http://lawyers.martindale.com/internet-law/article_Ervin-Cohen-Jessup-LLP_300518.htm?PRV=OOS

Not always true. In California in a recent case, a woman who helped pull a friend from a car wreck was held liable for further injuries caused when she pulled her from the car without realizing the woman had suffered a broken neck or back. In California, the rule is there is no duty to give...

If you don't mind looking like Margie from "Fargo," you might give these guys a go. They have a lot of different designs. http://www.madbomber.com/

ECW Mitts Not sure if these have been mentioned yet, but Kevin Kinney at Empire Canvas Works makes some serious winter mitts. Not cheap, but from what I've read, top quality and Kevin is a good guy to deal with. I belong to another website where he posts regularly...

Have you looked into just getting a 3 pin setup? I have Atomic Rainiers with Voile cable bindings on their release kit. I wear Garmont Excursions ( light double plastic boot). I also have skins. My skis are waxless, but I tow a sled and skins are essential for that. For backcountry non three...

I wonder if you could do this in a front loader washer. We have those in my apartment building and once you start it, you can't shut it off and open the door until it's all the way done. Maybe you can with a home version, but I would check first before doing any experimenting.

This is not a new problem. The first guy to use a PLB was arrested the second time he used it when he went back to get his gear a few weeks later and decided he was too tired to hike out. This happened in upstate NY. The first time, he had canoed somewhere and got stranded in a snowstorm, got...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25bear.html?hp The story says it all.

Most forums are immune from suits like the one suggested above. The poster may not be. See the CDA (Communications Decency Act). As far as "Good Samaritan" laws, here in CA, a passenger in a car was held liable for injuries she caused a passenger in another car that had wrecked in front of...

Another story about Ken's rescue- http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/05/searchers_find_missing_appalac.html I don't know this guy, but my hat's off to all who participated in his search. It sounds like it was a pretty big effort with a happy ending. Now the big question is...

I know this is farther south than most of you, but if you have any friends down that way, pass it on. The missing hiker is Ken Knight from MI who works with Backpacking Light. All the details are on BPL at the link below...

Unadogger is on to something. I just saw a story on dogsled racing and rather than long runs wearing them out, the longer the dogs ran, the stronger they seemed to get. It is counterintuitive and scientists can't figure it out yet, but they are looking at what's going on. A friend of mine used...

I was looking at some OR Brooks Range overboots in a store the other day. DougPaul is right-only for use with crampons. The soles on those are completely smooth. You may want to look at Neos overboots. I haven't tried them, but they get good reviews from members of other sites I belong to where...

If the other solutions don't work, head for the nearest sailmaker. You should be able to find ripstop nylon tape that should work fine and last a long time.

Yardsale, I joined www.wintertrekking.com a while back; It is a Canadian cold weather camping website-cold as in -40C cold. Many of them have the Snowtrekker or similar hot tent. They tow everything in on sleds with huge snowshoes. They also wear old style cotton anoraks and lots of wool. The...

Yep, Atomic Rainier-virtually the same ski as far as I know. Got a pair myself and really like them, but they are my first pair, so nothing to compare them to.

A really good source on sleds and toboggans is www.wintertrekking.com, a Canadian site for winter campers in the Far North. They carry a lot-big tents, wood stoves, etc. so almost all of them tow a sled of some kind, usually on snowshoes. The toboggans are usually made from plastic-either...

Like Michaelb, I belong to www.telemarktips.com. It is the best place for tele advice on the net that I know of. It has the beginner videos which DougPaul linked and a very active forum. Beginners can get put off by some of the hard core members, but ignore that and you'll do fine. I just do...

I've seen other similar designs for what are called "woodgas" stoves. The idea being, as was said, to burn off the gas, which then burns above the wood. I think if you do a Google search, some of the designs will show up. The ones like the Sierra that have a fan and need a battery make no...

Mongoose and Maddy, I love those matches-not the smell though. They are essentially miniatures of the sparklers you'd get for 4th of July without as much sparkle. Once lit, they do not burn out until they are used up-definitely no blowing them out. I have used mine to light my Optimus Nova in...