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How to quickly dry out a Camelbak?
Use 95% pure ethanol, sold in liquor stores as "rectified spirits". Just a small amount is all you need. Slosh it around the container and it will pick up every last speck of water and evaporate it, ...
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Makeshift stand for large tablet
If you have a decently large log and a camping hatchet, you could notch the log on the side, then split it so you have a ledge to rest the tablet on and a back to support it.
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Makeshift stand for large tablet
After first just leaning against a larger box, where the iPad kept slipping when touched, I considering using a silicone heat brick so it shouldn't slip.
Then I saw this picture frame just laying ...
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How to find my way without a compass?
The guide for lost people.
You are moving (by foot, by car, by whatever) through the landscape
until, well, this area does not look right....where am I ?
First and most important rule: Do not panic....
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How to straighten a bent tent-peg
Especially aluminium tent pegs are a bit tricky. Most metals will become harder as they are 'worked' (as in getting bent) and the initial bend when you hit the stone will have the effect that the bend ...
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How can I safely trim my fingernails without a fingernail clipper?
The simplest way to safely trim your fingernails without nail clippers is to use your eye teeth, fingers, and a rough surface. While it sounds odd, this is how I have trimmed my finger nails for most ...
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What lightweight household items could be used as tent stakes?
Will there be trees? If yes, you could use loose wood from the ground as tent pegs. Then you could take some rope/washing line and attach it to a branch to lift up the centre of the tent, rather than ...
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How to quickly dry out a Camelbak?
My solution for storing multiple Camelbak bladders for long periods of time without any mold or mildew inside is to fill them with water and then make sure ALL of the air is bled out before storing. ...
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How to start fire with wet fire wood after it has been raining or snowing
Whenever you are hiking collect the bark of fallen birch trees (Please leave the living trees alone!). It's white, looks like paper and burns really well. I had a bag of it in my backpack when I was a ...
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How to start fire with wet fire wood after it has been raining or snowing
Fire from wet log
This was actually one of the summer camp challenges in outdoor organisation I was at kid. It was called fire from a wet log. You were supposed to start a fire using only:
knife
axe
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How can I safely trim my fingernails without a fingernail clipper?
Drug stores sell small fold-up key-fob sized scissors, two to a pack, hanging on the side of the end-cap where the sewing needles are sold, usually the back half of the store. Also in the school ...
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How to quickly dry out a Camelbak?
Since there are narrow spaces at edges, it may not be practical to completely dry it. However, if you rinse with dilute chlorine bleach or water with a treatment tablet, and then pour and squeeze out ...
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How to quickly dry out a Camelbak?
I dried mine out all I could with kitchen roll then filled it with some more and left it opening-down in the airing cupboard for a day or so. Maybe not the best way but it seemed to work for me
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How to quickly dry out a Camelbak?
What i do is flip it upside down(where the water hole is facing downward) and stick a couple napkins inside overnight and it usually does the job.
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How to light a match?
I am a long time camper and backpacker and have always kept my matches in a small plastic water proof container. Right now they are in an old prescription bottle. If/when the striker strip wears out ...
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