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Originally Posted by BigJohn
JustASimpleGuy,
When you are hiking, what precautions do you take for safety?
What I am really interested in is what my 'voice' brought to my attention yesterday. This dealt with rabid animals and in our area, really bad people.
Our area has had recent cases of rabid animals and of course our usual run of the mill drug smugglers and human traffickers. You have previously mentioned, I believe, your Ruger. Do you keep 'her' easily accessible or how? Just curious.
I never carried such things on hikes but I have planned two hikes in the future were precautions might be in order.
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Walking stick and a Kershaw sheath knife with a very, very sharp and pointy blade. Couple of years back I made a new walking stick and the tip I got for it has a cap with a rubber foot for normal trails and it unscrews, revealing an ice spike.
https://treelineusa.com/large-chrome...ing-stick-tip/
I was just digging through some old pictures, adding to a new album, and found this picture from 1990 of me and a friend getting ready to head out on a 6 day backpacking trip into the Siamese Ponds Wilderness in the Adirondacks.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared...k9lK0jv10d1Ofc
Sadly my friend was killed some years back on his motorcycle on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway on Long Island. A drunk driver plowed into him.