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I broke my hip (femoral neck) and femur (spiral fracture just above the knee) in a BC skiing accident fifteen years ago. Repair was two screws in the hip and a nail (placed from the knee end) in the femur. I was healing and rehabbing well until the screws securing the nail self-extruded (came...

I have an old Garmin 60CSx with pre-week-number rollover software. If I fire it up after it has been off for a day or so, everything is fine. However, if I turn it off and back on a short while later it will be unable to establish an initial location and after a while will pop up a window...

Our base was in Columbia (central MO) and our observing site was a church-yard in Marion, IL. The pastor was observing it himself and invited us to join him. All 130 of us... The traffic jam on the way home was pretty impressive. Yes--one does have to be careful that one does not spend all...

In general, mountainous regions are poor places to view an eclipse--the probability of clear skies is low and if the local area is cloudy the roads will clog up rapidly. In 2017, I was with a group of serious eclipse watchers. We met at a hotel in central Missouri with a local viewing site and...

A few corrections: I wasn't in pain, but I knew my femur was broken. I was working on getting my pack off when another solo skier arrived. (I would have been able to get it off.) He helped stabilize me (pad under me, down jacket on etc). Only had a cellphone, but I was able to connect. If...

Many without local experience also underestimate the weather in the Whites. After all, the tallest peak is only 6288 ft--how bad can it get? But as those with local experience know, the weather in these molehills can be as bad as that found in much higher ranges. Doug

Rottefella Super-Tele bindings have been my standard binding for many years for both BC and XC. I recommend them. All of my skis (including Tele) use 75mm bindings (up to heavy Tele cable bindings) and my boots are also all 75mm (up to plastic Tele boots) so I can mix and match as needed. I...

(no text required, but vBulletin wants some. D.)

And in the 70s, we would lash a crampon half (from a crampon with a broken hinge) or an instep crampon to the bottom of our flat bearpaw snowshoes. EMS sold a bolt on version. That was back in the days when you expected to have to break the trail out. Gotta keep you young'uns straight... Doug

You only use that "feature" on extra-cold days. Doug

I concur. It comes down to the spreading ratio (R, the average number of people infected by 1 infected individual). If it is less than than one, the epidemic will die out, if greater than one the epidemic will increase. (R0 is estimated to be between 2 and 3 for covid-19 if no preventive...

It sounds like you are seeing the basemap rather than the topo maps, which are presumably on the SD card. SD cards are pretty robust so it may have survived the fall. (I don't have a 64, so I can't give you exact instructions-just guesses based on my GPS.) 1. Check to make sure the SD card...

Lithium-ion (rechargeable) batteries degrade with both use and time. To maximize their lifetime: * store in the refrigerator when not in use, ideally at 40% charge. * do not charge or discharge fully (ie keep between 10% and 90% or 20% and 80%)...

Topo Active maps are 100K scale topos. The 24K topos are generally better for hiking. I have both 100K and 24K scale maps on my GPSes and generally use the 24K. Doug

A GPS is often far more accurate than a trail as drawn on the map, so such a discrepancy is more likely to be a map problem rather than a GPS problem. A far better test is to walk the same trail several times and compare the tracks. Doug

Such a call time will result in lots of false call-outs to SAR and is also no guarantee of quick help. One is often back to the TH later than planned and IMO one should allow extra time when setting up a call time. If one is concerned about an injury with a short survival time, one should carry...

Thanks Tim! Keeping a website going is a big job. Doug

Sounds good. The ability to see the Milky Way and other dim features is getting rarer and rarer these days. I was looking up at the sky from a dark spot in Twin Mountain a few years ago and had trouble recognizing familiar constellations due to all the "extra" stars... I've taken up...

Tim, The Johns Hopkins University data includes recovery data (as well as diagnosed case and death data). https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data The data is available in both human-readable tables and .csv files. Doug

I have been downloading and plotting the data pretty much since it began in the US. Most of the sources just enumerate the cumulative diagnosed cases and deaths. Many (if not most) mild cases are not recorded and and the only source of data that I have found on recoveries is for my home town...