Eliminate redundancy, converge on multi-purpose items. Example cell phone is a secondary flashlight, and compass. Is the multitool necessary? If your location has cell service consider omitting the inreach. Agree with @Gunnersdad49.
Need one real soon. Leaving for CO in less than 2 weeks, and my Spot doesn’t check all the boxes. Please save me from spending $300+ on a new mini. What can you dig out that you’re not using, willing to part with?
Delorme Inreach preferred, but I’ll take a mini for the right price. Trying...
Good point Grizzly. Interesting though, and somewhat of a dilemma. Cold apparently slows down the process of tabs too. Rinella had John Barklow from Sitka on a podcast and he got granular about this. Worth looking up if you want to wonk out on safe wilderness hydration.
You’re applying a 19th century and later standard to an 18th century event. List the 18th century constitutional republics that prohibited slavery at the time. Was slavery banned in the monarchy they revolted from? Context matters.
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Read their writing. Read the historical record of the debates. Understand the principles that formed the government. Study history my friend. It’s not all quantitative.
Fortunately they were better read, and more informed on history, and philosophy, than some enlightened people. But to each his own. I’m still waiting for someone to enlighten me about founding documents that do better at preserving individual liberty over the long term.
In the 80’s I hunted whitetail in Michigan’s UP one year in my Buddy’s VW Scirocco. We got some weird looks from usual characters in 5x5 trucks. The novel thing was our track was so narrow we could straddle from the center hump to one dry side of the muddy two track trails. We passed right...