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Questions that discuss about precautions need to be taken for ensuring the safety in various outdoor activities that are in scope of The Great Outdoors should be tagged with this tag.

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Chaining locking carabiners

Carabiners are designed to be strongest in tension. That's why the biner has two limits -- closed (where the forces are distributed lengthwise among two sides of the biner) and open (where the remain …
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How do locals (short of drilling) determine that lake ice is safe for skating, ice fishing, ...

You need between 3 and 4" of clear ice to be safe, but, with practice, you can visually determine if there is this amount or more. The key is that ice can support your weight in boots and not yet be …
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Safe, effective method for splitting firewood using a hatchet?

In general, the splitting force necessary to split firewood depends on the length of the wood, the width of the piece, the species, the knottiness/curvature, pre-existing stresses, and the degree of m …
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Walking through an active railway tunnel during a long distance walk

Having been dumb enough to try this (albeit with a 500m tunnel), I will mention a few drawbacks: Trains going downhill make very little noise, and tunnel rails are often specially damped, so you wil …
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Can orange safety vest be used when hiking during hunting season?

All of which is to say that wearing a bright orange vest is not going to improve your safety very much, if at all, because the number of humans hit by errant arrows from hunters is minuscule. …
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