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This site is almost perfect for certain types of book recommendations. If I am looking for a trails book, I'm much more inclined to get the one that has 40 upvotes than the one which has two. I woul …

I think for both this and indoor climbing, we have to ask which groups share the most in common. In this case, I think mountain biking will have more in common and share more commonalities with other …

I think it's a bit odd that this is off-topic in the FAQ. Why would we exclude computer software that is used for hiking? Because it's largely used for other things? It just seems like odd logic th …

My view. Knots useful to the topic matter (climbing, hiking, etc.) are on topic. Unrelated decorative knots (pretty hair bows perhaps) are not. Knots for the purpose of bondage are right out. Also t …

Survival food totally appropriate. The line is fuzzy, but your original question didn't really (to me) contain any element of "the great outdoors". The question just boiled down to "how do I cook …

If you would like this questions migrated BACK to TGO, vote this answer up and I'll go, hat-in-hand to the cooking mods and see what I can do.

My answer would tend to be Yes. Looking over sites that succeeded, it appears to me that they were VERY permissive in topics in the early stages while they built their community, then refined it down …

Yes, though anticipate a longer time frame to get an answer.

We cannot stop people from googling for information. What we can do is provide them with answers we think will minimize risk. Provided that the advice is specifically related to outdoors, then it sh …

Adapted from my chat comments: In addition to the above point, I'm not a fan of the pattern of resurrecting years old questions just to go "why was this allowed" or "if you close mine you must close …

My general thought to "on-topic" "off-topic" is that we should not be preemptive in our definitions. Ask the questions. Nine times out of ten the community will resolve the question without any fuss …

Cooking game while outdoors (camping, backpacking, etc) = Outdoors Cleaning/Dressing game taken while outdoors for later cooking = Outdoors Cooking game in your home that happened to be obtained ou …

Regarding my three year old IT Band question: IT Band syndrome is a very common problem hikers face. I seeded this here three years ago because it's rather hard to find a good answer on the web us …

This question got so many upvotes exactly because it asked about titanium cookware. As a hiker it never occurred to me that it would be off topic. Titanium cookware is used almost exclusively for ba …