DavidR

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Just another software engineer. Longtime outdoor sports enthauist. Avid rock climber.

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Apr 21	comment	Should food be in a bear bag/canister even when I'm hiking? They can see the food canister, but can't open it (or pick it up to carry it away) If you set the canister on the ground away from your tent, the bears will sniff and claw at it for a while, then give up and go away. If it had been in a pack, they would have ripped the pack apart. Likewise for a tent or a car.
Apr 21	comment	Should food be in a bear bag/canister even when I'm hiking? Bears are gigantic animals that weigh hundreds of pounds and have a better sense of smell than we can fathom and are capable of destroying packs, tents, cars, breaking bones, and ripping our flesh apart. but they're also not generally aggressive, and mostly harmless if you follow the rules when you're in their world. :)
Apr 21	comment	Should food be in a bear bag/canister even when I'm hiking? @gerrit - I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to know what the regulations are. Don't try to outsmart them, they're in place for a reason. :). If your question is "do the rules that the park service wrote apply to me", the answer is "yes". :)
Apr 21	answered	Can I get away with less advanced food storing methods if backpacking in areas where meeting bears is unlikely?
Apr 17	revised	How safe is the bowline knot in different situations? made facts I had mentioned in my comments an explicit part of my answer
Apr 17	revised	Is there a consensus or ethic for rappelling off a tree? added 585 characters in body
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Apr 15	revised	Is there a consensus or ethic for rappelling off a tree? fixed wording
Apr 15	comment	What to teach someone who wants to start lead climbing? :) And that list could have some value. I guess I just wanted the record to state that this stuff is actually hard, and best approached with some humility... it doesn't happen often, but I have seen "self taught" beginners with a shiny new rack of gear, that lack even a basic understanding of what they're doing. Often these people are going trad climbing once "for practice" before attempting a mountain.
Apr 13	answered	What to teach someone who wants to start lead climbing?
Mar 29	awarded	Nice Answer
Mar 28	revised	How to inspect climbing bolts? "there" to "their"
Mar 21	revised	What kind of mementos, if any, am I allowed to collect from State and National parks in small quantities? added 231 characters in body
Mar 21	comment	What kind of mementos, if any, am I allowed to collect from State and National parks in small quantities? Excellent point. Its cheesy, but a t-shirt is a much better memento than a rare plant or a fossil. I was thinking of editing my post to say something along those lines. :)
Mar 20	awarded	Nice Answer
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Mar 20	answered	What kind of mementos, if any, am I allowed to collect from State and National parks in small quantities?
Mar 13	comment	How safe is the bowline knot in different situations? absolutly, agreed... I wasn't sure how to addres the "yosimitee bowline", there are a couple variations I've seen (they all double the initial loop and all tie the end off with a half hitch, but sometimes the end-strand passes back through the knot, so that its on the climbing end, sometimes it ends in the main loop of the bowline), I wasn't sure if / how to address that, because I was hesitant to recommend one or the other.