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Glenn, I just sent you a donation via PayPal, but it might have been to the wrong address (your name was there from a purchase I made from you before). Let me know if I screwed up.

I just saw this, and the Mantis is the best Barrens bug tent out there. It is rainproof, bugproof, and very wind resistant, more so than the CCS lean. Of course it has been discontinued. I've used both up north (Alaska and Canadian Barrens), and I like the Mantis better as it seems more stable...

I developed medial epicondylitis (golfers elbow) over 20 years ago climbing and training for climbing. It's a very common injury among climbers. One of the best resources is Dodgy elbows, which shows eccentric exercises which really help. I've found stretching and warming up the forearm a bit...

I've seen (and mostly abhor, and commonly knock down) cairns throughout the western US--sometimes as something "cute", other times misplaced and leading the follower places he/she really doesn't want to go, and also as legitimate trail demarcations on rock trails where there are no alternatives...

Rob Lesser, of the first descent party back in 1981 I think, was a friend of mine about that time, and represented the "hair boaters", with first descents of the Rio Bio Bio and others. I was NOT one of his paddling partners! (although I did fish him out of the water once after going over in a...

And then there's Lake Powell and the Colorado River.......

A few guidelines to consider: a) be exceptionally careful when coming across a carcass in grizzly country. I believe they were tracking a deer from the day before, and came across the smaller bear on the carcass. The general goal is to try to see the carcass from a distance before...

The big lakes on the Thelon can get pretty tedious, especially after spending six days on the larger Dubawnt Lake (81 miles long!). We entered the Thelon below Beverly Lake, but got to paddle the much larger Aberdeen Lake (61 miles). We only got windbound one day on Aberdeen--much of the rest...

Same here on the Dubawnt. They got pretty bad after a couple of weeks though, late July or so.

So what was your trip this summer?

Dubawnt River below the Gates of the Dubawnt, Nunavut.

Ahhhh, Stony Rapids and the Whitewater Inn! We were there over a month before you on our Dubawnt trip. Most of us flew there, but one of our party drove. We even flew in on the same Otter. When you were stormbound on Cree Lake (15 Aug), we were happily sailing our PakBoats (yes, Glenn, we...

For what it's worth, I installed footbraces in my Wenonah OC-1 using standard pop rivets 40 years ago, and they're still secure with no cracks despite some pretty traumatic usage.

I was just in Nelson for a couple of weeks. Hiked an urban trail that had scat and area closures. This was before they trapped them the first time. In Anchorage, grizzlies are just a way of life, with bears using the streams for fishing (usually) when people aren't using the trails along those...

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Visibility is key in human/bear conflicts (as is smell). It's pretty nice hiking in the Barrens when you can see several miles with no vegetation over 6". Hiking willow thickets in Alaska is a bit different when you can see only 5-10 feet--making lots of noise is your friend. Precisely--I...

Yep, that's pretty much what you have to do, whether it's camping in grizzly country or climbing/mountaineering (see my treatise on "objective" and "subjective" hazards in Glenn's climbing thread). Of course nothing is guaranteed (except eventually expiring), which the Banff incident shows clearly.

I was up backpacking in the Kootenays in B.C. a couple of weeks ago. I also paddled a bit on Kootenay Lake, since this is a paddling site!

It's been a busy bear year here in Montana: Woman and husband attacked Man attacked Woman killed And then where the bears lose: Bear shot Fisherman shoots bear Hunters kill bear Hunter kills bear There might be others I've missed.

But stuff still happens. An experienced couple and their dog were attacked in their tent and killed in Banff, and in a backcountry area. Backcountry campers killed by bear in Banff National Park were on multi-day trip, family says