Little tips that can make a big difference?

[ftrovato]

No cotton underwear. Chaffing Chaffing Chaffing!

 

[ftrovato]

Bag balm is better for cheeks and noses and better than chapstick on the lips too. Is also great to help heal small abrasions or chaffing you might get. I alway carry a small tin of it. When bird hunting I carry a large tin as the dogs feet get treated with it every morning and night.

I'm a big fan of bag balm and I like your recommendation! More uses than I've ever thought of....great stuff.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

Re: gators
If I’m on foot I wear gators and steel cap boots, but living here, everything is trying to kill you, even if it can’t, it will still try.
And the I use pull throughs that I’ve sprayed with G96 before putting them in a small screw top container
Gumpy

 

[Altitude sickness]

Pilar, I have used that knot also. It’s a favorite with hard core hikers and scramblers. To be a proper knot. It’s got to be easily untied. Having to use a rope wrench because you tied a mess isn’t a knot.