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| bio | website | topjaklont.org |
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| location | Kiruna, Sweden | |
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| visits | member for | 11 months |
| seen | May 17 at 23:04 | |
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I'm a PhD student in atmospheric remote sensing in Kiruna, Sápmi (Lapland), Sweden. I first came to Stack Exchange for practical reasons: Tex.SE has been of major help when I wrote my licentiate (midterm) thesis. Since then, I have discovered the joy of many websites. As my network profile will show, I'm interested in travel, outdoor, scientific skepticism, and as I work in academia, also in academia and LaTeX.
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Feb 5 |
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May hiking in Eastern California @OlinLathrop White mountains are certainly a place I'll look into more. I've never been to a desert and certainly not for backpacking (over here I hike mostly through mountain swamps crossing streams every 10 minutes and fording 1–2 small rivers per day, so I've never had to think about drinking water; I may ask some related questions later). |
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Feb 4 |
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May hiking in Eastern California Updated with Owens Valley photograph and suggestion for White Mountains or Inyo Mountains |
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Feb 3 |
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May hiking in Eastern California added nice map I found (deleted equiv. answer) |
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Feb 3 |
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May hiking in Eastern California @DudeOnRock Right, thanks for the reminder. Apart from Yosemite I don't really know what areas are popular and what areas aren't. If someone knows a beautiful but unknown hidden gem that is much less popular than it deserves to be, I'm certainly 'game' :) |
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Feb 3 |
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wilderness maps See also this page from the national forest system |
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Feb 3 |
asked | May hiking in Eastern California |
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Feb 1 |
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Minimizing ecological impact of winter-sports in the backcountry That should depend a lot on the elevation. Ski on a glacier that has snowcover 10–11 months per year and it should be fine... |
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Jan 28 |
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Minimizing impact of small groups on wilderness areas Don't animals make a lot of trails, too? In my area there are many reindeer trails that are often bigger than the human trails, except on the most popular human trails. |
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Jan 28 |
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Minimizing impact of small groups on wilderness areas Reminds me of Sarek National Park, where the construction of trails and cairns is explicitly forbidden. |
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Jan 28 |
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Minimizing impact of small groups on wilderness areas Is this a real issue? In the remote areas where I've hiked, I've never met another hiker, but seen a lot of animal tracks, that I often followed. Is a human trail that is indistinguishable from an animal trail really a problem? |
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Jan 28 |
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Where in Europe is wilderness meeting the U.S. wilderness definition? @OlinLathrop What about snowmobile trails? |
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Jan 24 |
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Walking trailers Alternative #3: get a better backpack that annoys less. |
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Jan 21 |
asked | Is a national forest always a forest? |
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Jan 19 |
answered | Rifugio (Mountain Hut) trek in Austria |
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Jan 19 |
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Rifugio (Mountain Hut) trek in Austria Do you mean you want to walk from hut to hut, or stay in a hut and do day hikes from there? |
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Jan 18 |
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Where in the Alps is it safe to drink the water without filtering? @RoflcoptrException If unexperienced, one might be wise to obey those signs. From personal experience, those signs have quite suddenly and quite recently appeared at places where people've been drinking forever. Sometimes I suspect it's for the benefit of the local mountain hut selling bottled water for 3€ for half a liter... |
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Jan 18 |
asked | Where in Europe is wilderness meeting the U.S. wilderness definition? |
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Jan 18 |
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Where in the Alps is it safe to drink the water without filtering? Actually, those signs "not drinking water" are often there for legal reasons, and posted even if the water is perfectly safe to drink. Only when you know you are below agriculture I wouldn't drink from the streams. |
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Jan 18 |
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Hiking popularity in North America vs. Europe I'd like to amend that indeed western Europeans have difficulties grasping this, but European Russia certainly has vast wilderness areas — the Komi Republic is 415,900 km^2 (roughly the size of California) and just a handful of cities totalling less than 1 million people (but see this q.). But I'm sure most western Europeans don't realise either this exists — in fact, the geographic centre of Europe is quite close to Russia... |
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Jan 18 |
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Hiking popularity in North America vs. Europe On the agricultural land note; I suspect agricultural land in the US is also considerably less interesting than in Europe. I've never been to the US, but it's probably much larger-scale than in e.g. Poland or even Germany. |
