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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 17, 2015 9:35:33 GMT -8
And to reverse the pot swirl: there's a lost backpacker in Yosemite at the moment: would YOSAR prefer A) the victim be entirely clothed in camouflage or B) actually be visible from more than a distance of two feet?
To the OT, I'm another in line with noise much outweighing a tent that looks bright when a digital camera is set to 32,000 ISO for a product shot.
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Post by johnnyray on Sept 17, 2015 9:49:50 GMT -8
I agree that noise is a bigger issue.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 17, 2015 10:04:58 GMT -8
And to reverse the pot swirl: there's a lost backpacker in Yosemite at the moment: would YOSAR prefer A) the victim be entirely clothed in camouflage or B) actually be visible from more than a distance of two feet? I like my tent with a neutral fly and a brighter interior tent. Give me the option of waving an orange flag around. Or I remember the woman who used her brightly-colored jog-bra for signaling... |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 17, 2015 11:00:15 GMT -8
And to reverse the pot swirl: there's a lost backpacker in Yosemite at the moment: would YOSAR prefer A) the victim be entirely clothed in camouflage or B) actually be visible from more than a distance of two feet? I like my tent with a neutral fly and a brighter interior tent. Give me the option of waving an orange flag around. Or I remember the woman who used her brightly-colored jog-bra for signaling... lol. Yeah most of my stuff is more subdued but I do like having something tucked away for that "bigger visibility" function. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 15:32:29 GMT -8
And to reverse the pot swirl: there's a lost backpacker in Yosemite at the moment: would YOSAR prefer A) the victim be entirely clothed in camouflage or B) actually be visible from more than a distance of two feet? Remember reversible jackets? Neutral, earth-tones on the outside and bright orange on the inside? The jacket zips up properly even when worn inside-out. Want SAR to find you? Turn your jacket inside out. Simple. This all is why LNT is formed of "guidelines" rather than hard-and-fast rules. I appreciate the fact that some people ask questions of LNT — not with the intent of nitpicking about others but with the intent to be considerate of others — whether those others return that consideration or not. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 15:37:46 GMT -8
Yeah most of my stuff is more subdued but I do like having something tucked away for that "bigger visibility" function. That is how I do things. I learned the hard way once when I set my natural-colored pack down in the forest and wandered some distance to take care of business. My pack blended so well with the forest that it took me 10 minutes to find it again. Now I leave a bright red stuff-sack tied to the top of the pack when I wander away. (Not bear country, by the way.) |
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Post by sarbar on Sept 17, 2015 17:40:32 GMT -8
From this day on, I am wearing neon clothing, with LED rope lighting woven into it AND a one-woman band rig.
Haters gonna hate.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 17, 2015 18:02:04 GMT -8
From this day on, I am wearing neon clothing, with LED rope lighting woven into it AND a one-woman band rig. Haters gonna hate. :( just shake it off. |
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Post by johnnyray on Sept 17, 2015 18:22:58 GMT -8
So, dressing up like a circus act is the key to a private camp site in the back country.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 19:42:42 GMT -8
So, dressing up like a circus act is the key to a private camp site in the back country. Ya never know. It could be a three-ring circus. You may be the light show, but in the next ring the fat lady yodels atop an elephant. |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 17, 2015 19:55:11 GMT -8
So, dressing up like a circus act is the key to a private camp site in the back country. hey don't knock it. Works great for getting extra space on the NYC subway too. |
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Post by ecocentric on Sept 18, 2015 8:58:26 GMT -8
My singing buys me a lot of personal space. ;-)
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 18, 2015 9:34:06 GMT -8
My singing buys me a lot of personal space. ;-) Amazing how that works. Me, I like to run through mountain meadows singing "The hills are alive..." |
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Post by FamilySherpa on Sept 18, 2015 9:44:56 GMT -8
If you want personal space, just quickly get naked when you hear someone coming.
It works.
*disclaimer....may not work so well if you are female.
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Post by cweston on Sept 18, 2015 10:10:44 GMT -8
If you want personal space, just quickly get naked when you hear someone coming. Lol. At a recent off-trail base camp in the north cascades, we discovered that our camp was in an area of major bear activity. When the first of several bears came through our camp, we had just finished bathing in the lake. I had minimal clothes on but my son was just coming out of the water, buck naked. The bears did not seem particularly bothered or repelled by this, FWIW, but my son reported that he did feel especially vulnerable at that moment. Then again, he's 23. Seeing me naked would probably have much more scare value. |
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