Backpacking • Re: Getting to the Reavis Ranch 109 North Trailhead
@ShatteredArm Heat is relative. Depends on where you're from. This guy is coming from overseas. England, Iceland, South Africa? 80 might be pretty hot depending on where you actually live.Statistics:...
View ArticleInjuries • Re: Another Camelback Mountain Rescue
Hopefully a TRT training exercise lot of depts are conducting training exercises and wildland fire training coming up.Statistics: Posted by Nighthiker — Feb 22 2024 6:54 pm
View ArticleCookware & Stoves • Massive recall of popular camping stoves and cooking...
MSR has announced the recall of over 80,000 pots that have been sold in North America.https://www.advnture.com/news/MSR-recal ... %2FoutdoorStatistics: Posted by Pivo — Feb 23 2024 7:27 am
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Looking for a Hike • Hikes for a broken hand, with a CR-V?
Due to an unfortunate hot tub accident I am temporarily one-handed. I gravitate toward more scrambly peaks and canyons, off-trail hikes, and multi-day trips, but determined yesterday that e.g. the...
View ArticleLooking for a Hike • Re: Hikes for a broken hand, with a CR-V?
Driver skill plays a good deal into this assessment, which make internet level diagnosis difficult. Many trailheads are borderline for your vehicle (require at least moderate off road driving skills)....
View ArticleBackpacking • Re: Your input on a 4 day 'adventure' in late January, Sections...
FWIW, I plan to try this trip again this week. Have set aside four days again. But this time I plan to head to Walnut Canyon from Picketpost. And then, depending, will either return same way or try...
View ArticleCookware & Stoves • Re: Massive recall of popular camping stoves and...
Never had a problem with my US military 1944 mess kit.Statistics: Posted by Nighthiker — Feb 23 2024 5:25 pm
View ArticleBackpacking • Re: Water in gems
2/24/24 report1. Roads are fine to Havasupai Gate2. Good flow of water in Serpentine and Sapphire Canyons right where Tonto crosses.3. Most other canyons not mentioned above had really high quality...
View ArticleBackpacking • Powers Garden recommendations
Anyone been in the Powers area of the Gailuros and know of the best hiking spots? Any other tips about the area?Statistics: Posted by azdesertfather — Feb 26 2024 11:00 pm
View ArticleBackpacking • Re: Powers Garden recommendations
Recent? I am no help there. Main route in is Deer Creek, tortilla trail down horse canyon to Garden. Should be pretty easy to follow. If you base camp Garden you can hit up the old cabin and mine area...
View ArticlePoems & Literature • Re: Looking for a book on the Goldfields
Great news. After searching everywhere for the last month or so I finally found a copy come for sale on Thrift books. It says it has shipped so I believe I will have a copy within a few days. Unless...
View ArticleBackpacking • For sale: Big Agnes pads - New
I am selling a couple of brand new tags attached B.A. Sleeping Pads. Both are 72" x 20" One is an Insulated Q-Core Deluxe (Now called the Boundary Deluxe) (4.25" thick) the Second is an Insulated Air...
View ArticleTrail Chat • Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescues? New Legislation In...
State legislators in Hawaii are fast-tracking a bill that would authorize the state to seek reimbursement from hikers who need rescue after venturing onto closed trails. But not everyone agrees it’s...
View ArticleTrail Chat • Re: Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescues? New Legislation In...
Are the copter rides here billed?Statistics: Posted by Alston_Neal — Feb 28 2024 12:09 pm
View ArticleTrail Chat • "Ruins"
It looks like the word "ruins" is the latest cancel culture target. This is from the Coconino National Forest:"Yesterday, the sign at Elden Pueblo Project was officially changed to remove the word...
View ArticleTrail Chat • Re: "Ruins"
My Garmin watch measures my stress level thruout each day. 0-25 = Rest26-50 = Low51-75 = Medium76-100 = HighDay in and day out, I consistently average a stress level of 30-32. I attribute that in...
View ArticleBoat, Canoe, Kayak, etc... • Re: Death Valley open for kayaking? You’d better...
"Lake Manly" has now become “too shallow and too far from the road” to transport and launch watercraft without damaging the landscape, according to the NPS. Visitors are no longer able to bring a boat...
View ArticleFlora • Super Bloom 2024
Super bloom 2024? California wildflower blooms are shaping up to be spectacular.Wildflower blooms are usually especially stunning after a wet winter in the frequently dry West. Because last year was...
View ArticlePolitical Dumpster Fire • North Face for Offering 20 Percent Discount to...
Outdoor clothing and gear company The North Face has incited outrage among white people and conservatives with its United Kingdom-based digital course on allyship and racial inclusion, which the...
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Flora • Re: Super Bloom 2024
Maybe there will be an impressive bloom around Tucson, since it was so wet this winter, after all? A bloom, and not just an explosion of canyon ragweed. Statistics: Posted by Jim_H — Mar 07 2024 12:44...
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