What cold-weather sleeping bags allow for two people to bundle together comfortably for serious camping? Zero or under bags preferred.
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posted by corb
on Nov 7, 2012 -
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What did you do to get through required courses that you hated, but in which you needed to do well? Help me make mine more bearable.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Oct 26, 2012 -
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A friend of mine has been getting back into camping/hiking/general outdoors-ness recently and has asked for my help locating a good 'survival' knife.
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posted by skrymir
on Sep 5, 2012 -
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Within the last month, I've been diagnosed with two autoimmune disorders. I'm tired, everything hurts, and my life is pure insanity right now. What are your hacks for getting what you need when life simply isn't giving them to you? What about from the ones you love?
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posted by your mom's a sock puppet
on Jun 1, 2012 -
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I need advice on surviving a corporate retreat with my sanity intact. This isn't a "'fun' activity leads to team bonding" kind of retreat, it's a "sit in a conference room for hours discussing the future of our unit" retreat. So, essentially, a six-hour meeting, and I am not good with meetings.
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posted by anonymous
on May 1, 2012 -
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I'm looking for poetry with a feminist leaning and/or covering a certain set of topics.
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posted by kanata
on Mar 23, 2012 -
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Help me find two pieces of literature I read about thirty years ago, one a short story, the other a poem.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Mar 9, 2012 -
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I have three folders on my Kindle.. Fiction, Non-fiction and Reference. Where do I place 'The Zombie Survival Guide'?
posted by Frasermoo
on Dec 29, 2011 -
25 answers
In the novel,
The Road, the people are slowly starving to death due to a nuclear (assumption) winter. What is the reality of this situation?
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posted by fifilaru
on May 19, 2011 -
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DisasterFilter - What steps can I take to ensure my pets survival in the case where a disaster strikes and I can't get home?
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posted by MShades
on Apr 2, 2011 -
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I want to commemorate a difficult anniversary by celebrating life. And by that I mean both my life and life in general.
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posted by swingbraid
on Jan 31, 2011 -
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I'm a childhood sexual abuse survivor who is not really surviving right now. I need help with a whole bunch of things, and after reading
this, I decided I'd query AskMe to see what resources are available.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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Looking for books written by someone who lived a normal stable life and due to a tragic unexpected event beyond their control, their life was turned upside down.
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posted by vizsla
on Oct 11, 2010 -
22 answers
Need advice for living through a kitchen renovation. (Or, how to camp out in your own house?)
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posted by jeanmari
on Oct 3, 2010 -
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Book Recommendations for Post-Divorce pain and anxiety? Help me help my girlfriend who is recently divorced and consumed with fears about being alone. She needs something positive and empowering to give her some strength to face the future and get comfortable living alone. She's in her early 30s with one child and she initiated the divorce because she was so unhappy.
posted by nancoix
on Sep 10, 2010 -
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Minimalist footwear for Chicago winter and running in said winter?
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posted by cmoj
on Sep 6, 2010 -
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Looking for advice of the virtues and pitfalls, or personal stories of choosing a long term nature awareness and primitive skills program for myself. Specifically looking at
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posted by DetonatedManiac
on Sep 4, 2010 -
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How to approach - Bipolar but still want to take a year long wilderness immersion program?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 1, 2010 -
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BurningFilter: best (and worst) advice for a handful of twentysomething female newbies camping for a week in the desert?
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posted by changeling
on Aug 12, 2010 -
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Super random question, but does anyone have any data on the survival rate of finches (the house finch, in particular) that are released back into the wild after being reared in captivity (e.g., a rehabilitator)?
posted by wuMeFi
on Jun 27, 2010 -
7 answers
I recently read the book
Endurance about Shackleton's trip to the Antarctic and enjoyed it immensely. What other historical books in the same vein would I enjoy?
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posted by kanata
on Jun 17, 2010 -
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I have a graph-ruled Moleskine that is begging to be turned into a compendium of obscure, fascinating, and perhaps occasionally useful reference material. Some of the things I want to put in there are Rubik's Cube algorithms, keys to reading non-Latin alphabets, some simple math formulas (Trachtenberg math, e.g.), rules of thumb for estimating distance/altitude, and whatever else. I'm imagining the user would bust it out of his/her bag and use the knowledge within to solve a wide range of MacGyver/James Bond/bar bet problems. An intellectual "Swiss army knife", if you will.
Any and all ideas are welcome!
posted by holterbarbour
on Apr 28, 2010 -
55 answers
How long do most domestic dogs last in the wilderness? My belief is that they do pretty poorly but I need better, more consise data than I'm finding.
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posted by Kid Charlemagne
on Apr 20, 2010 -
22 answers
What can I carry that will let me easily, consistantly and reliable make burning?
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posted by Quadlex
on Apr 6, 2010 -
25 answers
What are your best survival tips for dangerous situations that someone might realistically find themselves in?
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posted by Effigy2000
on Feb 11, 2010 -
107 answers
For a screenplay: what are some wilderness traps one could improvise to incapacitate another person?
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posted by thejrae
on Oct 8, 2009 -
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Survival simulation video games (not horror)...help me find some. Looking for recommendations on survival games (like Lost in Blue, Sims Castaways, etc.) for the PC.
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posted by Elminster24
on Aug 11, 2009 -
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