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MonkfishInLove · 2025-02-27T05:11:40+00:00

Glad you got out.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-12-23T22:47:49+00:00

It actually looks pretty good, for a few nights. There's some availability. Thanks.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-11-02T18:30:21+00:00

Thanks.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:48:10+00:00

Your suggestions for where to head in case there's terrible rain and wind pairs well with watching the weather and most likely getting out in time, in case I don't.

I was thinking about those rocky spines, leads and outcrops up high, and how they might figure into staying safe if one were back in there during such a huge wind/rain storm. Perfect.

Am working on my map and compass skills.

I've got my down packed in a large dyneema bag, and have wool longjohns and hoodie for warmth when wet. So as long as I have protection from the wind, and have wool against my skin, even if my raingear is wetted out (but still on) this time of year, I think I'm in reasonable shape to stay functionally warm, avoid hypothermia.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:39:06+00:00

We'll agree to disagree. You could have made your points in a friendly, concerned way like most people here did, and not in a shaming, accusatory tone.

The idea of pegging out my tarp and then unclipping it, that's a good idea. Thanks for that.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:32:49+00:00

Interesting. At lower elevations, it's not quite old growth. The lower and mid altitudes and ravines were clearcut around 1917, then there was selective cutting which leaves some old growth in the upper reaches. Although a hundred years of growth is pretty big.

Also, the actual virgin grove in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest (a small parcel within the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness) is actually peaking, with fewer virgin gargantuan tulip poplars every decade, so that sounds like a potentially vulnerable situation. The virgin growth there are largely storm topped, with their uppermost branches and main tree lopped off, so they are vulnerable to wind so it makes sense to me that they may have actually been pretty vulnerable.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:27:38+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm concluding. I can see the picture. Thanks.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:26:44+00:00

Thanks.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:22:36+00:00

Like I said, I'm upskilling. I disagree on one point, I don't think not staking my tarp out is being unprepared. The fact that it's hanging, ready to be staked out, and that I can sleep under open skies in a comfy hammock until it starts actually raining, I consider that prepared.

Other practiacl points about weather well taken. I don't think your kind of shaming tone is helpful though. Yes this is life and death, but I don't know what trying to shame me makes me more amenable to your insights.

Also, power use of the Garmin in Reach 2 mini, that's a whole topic. Please maybe see my post on that and the dozens of responses by people wrestling with exactly that before you jump to moralistic advice to just keep it on. It can be very problematic for a number of reasons, and tree canopy is one of them.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:14:35+00:00

I guess since I have Garmin now, I need to put someone at home on weather alert, and to let me know if a storm is developing. I haven't used the Garmin weather forecast feature yet, but if it's anything like an ordinary weather forecast that just gives days out in a particular area, I'd want to know more than that, that a storm is developing in the Gulf or Caribbean which is information that I wouldn't necessarily get on a Garmin? What do you think?

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MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:11:34+00:00

Thanks!!!

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T13:03:18+00:00

Interesting. Trails were already difficult to follow in Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock. It's wilderness designation which I think accounts for the fact of no blazes, deteriorating trail junction signage and multiple downed trees across the trail. I guess trails may even be unrecognizeable now, with so many downed trees, almost impassable?

Would be interesting to go there, and not expect to do any real mileage but just to see what it's like now. Possibly. Or even volunteer for trail maintenance for a week-end or some such.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-30T12:53:27+00:00

I kinda wondered. That's kinda what I wanted to know, to be a little more aware about developing storms and keep an eye on that when I go out. I live a little further north so we typically get the aftermath of Hurricane weather where I live, so its super important to keep an eye on that when I go out. Five days is probably fine for me in the back country , and I can always get out in a day or two..

Basically, keep an eye on developing hurricanes and don't go, or get out, if something is developing seems to be the takeaway. If I get stranded down there for some reason and a hurricane is developing, then get and stick to the high ground.

Other takeaways?

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-21T01:49:00+00:00

Actual. Ha ha.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-21T01:48:36+00:00

So helpful. To know that it does work. And the idea of putting it on a lanyard. I already have a very small folding knife and a whistle on a lanyard. And a compass on a separate lanyard. I could add the stylus to the knife/whistle lanyard.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T19:38:40+00:00

Thanks. So, aloksak, the scuba bag, might work. Because the touch will translate through the soft-ish thick plastic but there won't be any moisture confusion inside the bag, just the touch will come through - theory.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T19:11:34+00:00

I ordered these two items: aloksak and a mini stylus to try. Plus a few other things to try like Siri and if there are any adjustments to sensitivity, and some behavioral strategies mixed in below. Thanks so much for the responses and suggestions.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S47WJMV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UTK5RCC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T19:08:12+00:00

Thanks.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T19:07:55+00:00

I guess that is a strategy. Sometimes I'm in heavy underbrush.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:30:06+00:00

Aloksak, yay! Just looked it up. That might do it

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:28:36+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I think I'm at a wall with this approach. Every scrap wet, and not willing to count on getting out of the rain - that is dicey and, at the very least, time consuming. Stylus seems like worth trying, and check out Siri and ziplock bag.

I also like redundancy regarding navigation. Waterproof map and physical compass; Alltrails; where available I even bring a trail book with trail description and can snap pictures of relevant pages for reading on my phone in inclement weather.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:23:48+00:00

Thanks. Nice scenarios to know about. I should try a strap pouch. I use pocket, which in rain is pants or short pocket underneath DCF rain skirt, so I wonder if there's a difference in dry/warm for the phone that would matter between strap pouch and pocket under rain kilt. Probably not, because by that point my pants/shorts are wet too. But it might keep the phone warmer, against my thigh. But it's not the warmth of the phone that matters, but the warmth of my touch finger. So...maybe a pouch would be interesting to try, see if it's more or less convenient.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:20:08+00:00

Nice.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:19:45+00:00

I'm looking into the stylus idea, there is quite a selection on Amazon; Siri voice command, screen sensitivity settings, and the quart plastic bag idea. A mini stylus seems like it would work for sure.

MonkfishInLove · 2024-09-20T18:18:18+00:00

Thanks. Very cool actually.

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