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I guess we need to debate the bells themselves.
Cowbell? Pro: Deeper ring
Con: Heavier
Sleighbells? Pro: Noisier
Con: Noisier
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Note to newbies: Do not poke the snake!   |
LOL good point!
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Another advantage of a long staff is that you can grasp it at the level of your heart and this reduces the swelling in the hands one experiences on long hikes. Use the staff in both hands, that is to say for a while in the right hand and for a while in the left hand and so on.
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Could be that Orby wont experience the dreaded hand swelling. Us experienced by years people forget some of the things that Didnt impact us in our youth.
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The long staff affords another advantage when crossing streams that a shorter stick goes lacking; both giving a means to measure a depth to several feet as well as a means to gain support in it.
With a long staff, one is able to vault narrow ditches, creeks, and swales.   |
Swales.... thats a good word.
For measuring depth and support when wading thru a babbling brook, I agree.
I stopped vaulting a long time ago. I like the feet on the ground when hiking. Couple of things happened when trying to vault that turned me off. Once or twice I didnt have enough speed and fell back to the bank I was trying to leave. The other time I was vaulting snow melt. Unbeknownst to me, the water was flowing just as deeply under the pack I was vaulting to. Once I could see again (you get that same flash of light as if hit on the head hard), I found myself almost belly button deep in slushy ice cold water. It wasnt as bad as DiCapprio described in Titanic (a thousand knives stabbing you) More like a million pins being stabbed into you with an occasional knife wound.
Oh and as a side note.
Moccasins are useless in wet conditions. I dont know how the hell Indians managed to keep on their feet around water... Might as well be on roller skates or skis. I bet they took them off when fishing or traveling on foot around water. Thats what I ended up doing.
