1) What is your favorite place that you have been to on the planet?

2) Do you shoot pictures with a digital or film camera?

These days I mainly take photos with a digital camera.

3) When you have 2 hours to squeeze an activity on a Saturday morning, what do you do?

5) Where would you build your ideal vacation house?

7) What is the most significant gear invention?

The most significant gear invention has been the headlamp.  For further explainantion see question 10.

8) What is your number one priority when buying a car?

My number one priority when buying a car is that it is a pickup. 

9) What do you do to enhance your outdoor fitness?

To keep in shape I try to get outdoors a couple of times a week alternating the types of activity so that I use all my different muscle groups.  In the winter I head to the gym during the week.

10) What was your scariest moment on an outdoor adventure?

My scariest moment came when I was ending a very long day of hiking in New Hampshire.  It was a little after 11 PM and the end of the trail was through a very deep and dark pine forest.  I hadn't brought a flashlight so I had been concentrating on staying on the trail.  The moon was out and down the trail, past the forest, I could see the parking area ahead of me.  Just before I reached the parking area and before my eyes could adjust to the increase in light, a very  large shadow, much taller than I, passed within a couple of feet of my face.  A moose had walked across my path.  Yes, it startled me.