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Ah ,I remember about 57 years ago at a large boggy are in Lapland the small devils hatched at night between 16 and 17 of June, we were walking there through the night and experienced the birth of "Räkkä" first hand.

Hmmm ... The World Wide Cat Distributing System has not answered yet?

I have no knives I am totally happy with and some that I don't like at all, the broken ones. I have several that I use regularly without too much trouble. Like most tools.

That is a serious temptation ... :D

While I do recognize that not very much progress has happened in outdoors tool field I still think that we might have invented something new and hopefully better in the last 150 years. Small folding saw is one thing that did not exist, as far as I can recall, in Nesmuk's time, in some cases it...

Some 25 years ago here local councils started to give every building used for living an address. So by now practically every house has a unique address: county, road, number/letter. Houses with no road access can be identified by ground lot number or WGS84 coordinates. All in all the system...

Optionally, maybe. :D

THAT is exactly what THEY would say to confuse you! With statements like that it is VERY easy to slide to the paranoid side. :) :cool::p

Yep, there are some engineering truths that do not care about opinions. :thumbsup:

"If in trouble or doubt run around in circles scream and shout."

While safe fires can be had in many places it requires some thought and depending a bit luck also, sparks do fly. So I very much agree that prohibiting fires outright is best. A gas burner is pretty safe though.

Is smoking allowed?

That question is easy to answer: what ever I happen to have at the moment. Trangia mostly and if in northern Misty Isles conditions even isopropanol burns decently though it does produce soot. When trekking especially in the north I usually have a gas backup and I still have somewhere hexamine...

True but not always for the better. I am an aerospace structural and materials engineer by education and a lot of other things by experience. Some years ago I participated in a project with lots of computer FEM simulations. The young guys who did the models - certainly better than I could -...

There is nothing that prevents it physically from happening. Sooner or later it is going to happen with enough tries. I am trying to think how to say this without giving a wrong impression. I am not sure ... It is a question of handling the knife in a certain way and with certain grips when...

I agree there, being an amateur has little to do with this but I still maintain that having learned early on how to use a puukko in a culture that has used one for a few thousand years might have some effect. There are archaeological finds of midsize fighting knives apparently without a guard...

Why is that? I understood that ash is used as a handle material often. It barely grows here so I have no experience with it.

After another try I got: "Tea bags are sold in multiples of 80 because 80 bags (using roughly 3.125 grams of tea each) weigh 250 grams, which is the metric equivalent of half a pound. This standard carried over from historical packaging when loose tea was traditionally sold by the pound or...

Tried asking (some) AI, the answer was interesting 3.25 kg is exactly: "Exactly 1,040 catering-sized Yorkshire Tea bags sold in giant bulk bags. [1, 2]" Kind of circular reasoning ... :D

Snow has a habit of taking down week branches or split trees here usually the only problem that causes is broken power lines. Not always though, I have a few aspen hybrids that grow very fast but are known to often produce branches that break off easily. One 30 cm dia broke while we had...