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Tom,sorry about your Hawaii experience. I know a couple of families from work who planned their vacations in usually sunny Hawaii during the eclipse. They got rained on all day.

I don't have a lot of hope or optimism for clear sky on 8 April 2024 in this region. I will be prepared to travel a couple hundred miles, but would need a better guarantee of the sky conditions. Not likely without a very major regional location change. Cloudy weather and storm tracks tend to...

Vision saving advice.... order your eclipse glasses early. They will be difficult to find in the final year leading up to April 2024. Be sure they are rated as eclipse safe, beware especially of cheap Chinese made film type filters. Some of those were recalled as unsafe prior to the 2017...

If you sign up, the above link will get you an email of Forest Ranger activity every Tuesday. Or you can go direct and link to press releases at: https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/press.html Then look for "DEC Forest Rangers - Week in Review"

The Limmer lightweight model may fit your bill. Not inexpensive, but they are by far the most comfortable boots I have ever worn. Stiff leather uppers, easily made waterproof. Mine have never leaked. https://limmerboots.com

The best piece of rescue gear is that what is between your ears. The next best piece may be a compass, or it may be a map, or it may be a fire starter, or it may be a waterproof tarp or a dry sleeping bag, or a whistle , or a mirror... or it may be whatever item is most necessary to survive...

Of course. As a former USAF aircraft instructor navigator myself, having navigated over the Polar regions using celestial techniques prior to the existance of GPS, and now a recreational land navigation instructor/guide, I can certainly appreciate the impressive precision of Worsley's effort...

Chances are that it drifted a considerable distance while on the way down.

I wonder if he is related to Carl Skalak? https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ohio+instructor+charged+after+second+rescue+by+satellite+locator.-a0112129289

Watching now.... "didn't have a map or compass". In SAR archives, how many times have I heard that?

i tried this experiment at the height of BF season one spring day. I put a navy blue jacket on the ground next to a bright yellow jacket made of similar material. Within a very short time, nearly every square inch of the blue jacket was coated with hungry black flies, while the yellow one had...

As have many others, I first learned land navigation from Björn Kjellström's book back in the 1960s. It was more than adequate then, but even with a couple of revisions since my original first edition copy, that text has become a bit dated now. If you look around you will find an overwhelming...

It matters only if you every wanted to calculate in terms of actual distance traveled.

Tom, please define "step". Is it every left and right foot step, or is it counting every single left (or every right) foot step, not counting both, as the definition of a "pace".

This was an unusually over the top incident, but the usual ones that I often see and get to me as I read in the weekly DEC ranger reporte are ones like the "I've got my cell phone that does everything" excuses. "I loaded all the maps I thought I needed, but I ended up on (or off) a trail that...

Please, do not insult me. It is not used as a compass at all. That is a misnomer of how that function is used in a handheld GPS. It is a direction finder, preprogrammed to take me from preplanned point to point on a complex fast current river that has many potential alternate routes to choose...

So you say I could replace both of the navigation Garmins mounted in front of me during a race, one displaying a map function, the other a compass function, with two cell phones and never have to be dismounted for charging their batteries wirelessly without cables for at least 24 hours? The...

Not everyone has one or wants to be tied to an initially expensive device on an expensive monthly pay plan (individually or within a team organization) . Purchase a handheld once and you are done with the expense. Existing one time purchase (or free) software works very well if you practice how...

It's not like cell phones are inexpensive. Certainly can't rely on always having a a cell signal in many remote regions. Can't run a cell phone for the hundred or so hours on the Yukon 1000 mile canoe race. I can change the battteries daily on my Garmin. During SAR, we use hand held GPS units...

Beckoning Silence" is now on Amazon Prime. Amazing job by "actors" recreating a 1936 tragedy on the North Face of the Eiger. Opening veiws were similar to what I had from a hotel I was in high across the valley to the north.