Unanswered Questions

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Topic of the Week idea for Outdoors.

I've seen the idea of the Topic of the Week on some Stack Exchange sites. I think it would be the great idea to animate this site. First it would encourage existing users to ask more questions. ...
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Weekly Topic: Gear Storage

This week it's questions related to storing gear for the next season (Sorry for this being late guys).
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New Beta Theme Launched

Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta. You can read more about the redesign ...
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Topic of the Week — Winter is coming

This week it's all about questions pertaining to winter, dealing with winter, not freezing, snow, etc.
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Sharp rise in visitor numbers - any reason?

I was pleasantly surprised a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that the visitor numbers seemed to shoot up rather quickly from the steady 800-900 we'd been seeing gradually increase for a while, to ...
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Footwear-related tags

Do we really need all the different tags for footwear? Most don't have definitions to help people decide which one to use (or how to choose more than one) - and I think, at the very least, footwear ...
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Weekly Topic: Health Concerns

This weeks topic is health concerns in the outdoors. What potential concerns should get particular attention when hiking/fishing/etc.
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Is tangential nutrition off topic

How much garlic in the mountain kitchen? To me this question reads more like "What is a good daily dose of garlic?" with a "oh and i'll be in the woods" thrown in to make it on topic. (remember, ...
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“Forest noises” - on topic?

Forest noise mp3s Is the above on topic? I'm tempted to say no, and would equate it to someone asking where to find a video of someone programming on SE, but thought it's worth throwing out there ...
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Help track and improve traffic

Here's what I'm asking everyone to do When you link a question on an external site (faceook, g+, forums, etc.) post an answer here with which question you linked and which site. The purpose is so ...
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Geographical Regions Tags

What template should we follow for the the wiki summary of geographical-related tags? e.g. us canada europe new-england new-zealand alps Should we follow a format like the following: ...
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Merge Tag new-england

Should the tag us-new-england should be an alias for new-england?
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Four & Five season tent questions

My opinion is that these should be merged after Beta, but not before. The problem is that a novice or uneducated person will google 4 season tent, get the five season link and not even read If the ...
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Is the training tag for lessons or for practicing/exercising?

I just asked a question about sailing lessons. There were no tags that were unequivocally related to learning something: learning, lessons, instruction, and so on don't seem to exist. There is a ...
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Gear Review Question

While I love the information this question garners, it is probably a bad question: How to find objective reviews of outdoors gear? Which site has quality gear reviews is going to be almost purely ...