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Like pegleg56 said
" the lighter my pack the more I enjoy hiking, the heavier my pack the more I enjoy camping".
Dan
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New School is Really Really Old School.
If you do not believe this, you haven't made contact with:
Nessmuk's Woodcraft from the 1870's-80's,
Walt Whitman's late 1800's travels,
Earl Shaffer's first thru trip in 1948, Walking With Spring,
and Grandma Gatewood of the 1950's to 60's.
Wiki and Amazon suggested.
"There's no accounting for other people's taste in love, fiction and huntin' dogs." ---Mark Twain
As I sit here making a mental list of the things that are important to me...things I'm unwilling to compromise on...it's clear that I'm a poor candidate for induction into the society of gram weenies.
For instance, there's coffee, and I don't mean some pallid freeze-dried approximation of realdeal perked coffee. The pot goes with me. Always. Ditto the mug. A bit of whiskey to sweeten the brew ain't no bad thing, either.
Gotta be warm. And dry. Gotta sleep well. I love the fact that with a hammock, I'm only a couple of minutes from a nap.
OTOH, I can run for awhile w/o much in the way of food, and it doesn't seem to bother me much.
Sorry for the ramble...it's a recent thang...olde phartes will be olde phartes, doncha know?
Dave
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."~~~May Sarton
A one cup coffee press weighing 6.5 oz;
Several coffee doses individually wrapped in the corner of a baggie and cut off;
A cup of your choice.
These things don't weigh much. Coffee is necessary, like warm, dry, and sleep. It's an American camping tradition from the 1800s.
- MacEntyre
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
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now if they could just make a dehydrated version of Bailey's, I'd be set!!!
WARNING: Will discuss Rhurbarb Strawberry Pie and Livermush at random.
"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." ... B.Franklin
Home of the Gorge Rats: Linville Gorge
My Videos YouTube Channel
Photo collections Flickr Photostream
Gorge Rat Productions On FaceBook
One thing good about getting older, you learn to get your priorities straight.
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