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| location | United States | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 5 months |
| seen | Apr 27 at 18:35 | |
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A guy who is into a little bit of everything...music (listening and making it), photography, DIY, technology, the outdoors (hiking, backpacking, climbing...), and trying to live by grace through faith. I also currently work at a high adventure camp in the Southeast where I also do a little bit of everything...
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Jan 14 |
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Is it safe to use denatured alcohol as an antiseptic? +1 - Denatured alcohol is only good for fuel or for cleaning mechanical parts, not flesh. I recommend keeping iodine solution (Betadine) in your first aid kit for disinfecting wounds in addition to debriding the wound properly. |
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Jan 13 |
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Methods for taping hands, wrists, and fingers for climbing? This is great! I'm going to leave it open for a bit so we can hopefully get more great contributions. |
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Jan 12 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? Re-wording to change the tone of some parts of the answer and to be more descriptive |
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Jan 12 |
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Methods for taping hands, wrists, and fingers for climbing? Well I was actually asking this way because I didn't want to ask a question that was too specific so that it could be helpful to a larger range of people. Maybe I should be more specific and ask separate questions for different tape jobs/methods/body parts? ...But I do have intermittent wrist pain that seems likely to be tendinitis. I know how to tape a wrist (and other joints), but not any effective techniques for climbing. The method(s) I know are too restrictive for climbing and cover the palm, which is no good. |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Student |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Jan 11 |
asked | Methods for taping hands, wrists, and fingers for climbing? |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Vox Populi |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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Jan 11 |
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Material of shirt for Desert hiking I'm curious also how linen or linen/cotton blends fare compared to 100% cotton. |
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Jan 10 |
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What essential items should go in a small first aid kit? And the assist term is quite vague. An instructor told me that you could essentially have the patient's hands on the Epi-pen, while in actuality the one making it all work is you. And that would be legal if you didn't have the cert. But really who is going to say anything to you if you save someone's life? |
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Jan 10 |
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What essential items should go in a small first aid kit? @RussellSteen - I agree with you. I'm not going to let someone die from anaphylactic shock because of a dumb regulation. Just thought it was worth mentioning. The certification is super easy and really cheap to get anyway. I mean a 5 year old could probably administer one successfully if they can read. |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? @RoryAlsop - Ok true it does give one. It was pretty late when I read this. It still seems to me more like a comment than an answer overall. I'm still relatively new here so I could be wrong. |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? @Shawn - Good tip! |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? Added a photo |
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Jan 10 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? Actually it is very possible to keep your gear out of the weather in all but the worst of storms. I ,like many hammockers, use a ridgeline above my hammock from which to hang items I might need at night. I then put everything else in my pack, put the pack cover on it and have it directly under my hammock under the tarp. This almost always keeps everything dry unless water happens to run under the pack. But even then only the straps and back panel can get wet this way. |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? This doesn't answer the question of the downsides to using a hammock at all and would be more appropriate as a comment on the original post. |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? deleted 1 characters in body |
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Jan 10 |
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What are the downsides to sleeping in a hammock on a multi-day hike? Fixed grammar |
