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Hot drinks
Amaretto (almond-flavored liquor) goes really well in hot chocolate. As does cream. As do both together.

In Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » Ultralight Cocktails
February 19, 6:05pm
Not just for trail use.
One of those photos reminds me of David Byrne's "Big Suit": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense Rock on.

In Make Your Own Gear » Foam Vest Meets Fishnet
February 19, 11:05am
Humility weighs less than gear.
>"and was really glad that I had my trekking poles to help me hike out." I'm glad you had them, too, but . . . . If you'd asked the next dozen people who walked by, "...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 19, 11:01am
Re: Ray Jardine
From wikipedia: Ray Jardine. . . in May 1979, was the first to free climb the West Face of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Jardine is noted for inventing and developing the spring-loaded camming...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 19, 9:37am
Re: Ultralight Cocktails
Everclear (why haul water?), crushed high-bush cranberries (gathered on the hike), add sugar to balance the alcohol and dilute with about 3 parts water to 1 part (Everclear + juice). Although wi...

In Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » Ultralight Cocktails
February 19, 9:26am
1950's and 1960's
I went to the 50th reunion of the UC Berkeley Hiking Club (I wasn't in it that long, only 1979 to 1995). It was interesting to talk to members from 1949-1955. Lots of army surplus gear, but t...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 19, 9:18am
Re: Re: Re: Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
In the early- and mid-1980's a few of us, working in a BPing store did the usual progression - having used heavy stuff on Scout trips, we got better stuff, then got too much stuff, than saw how...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 18, 10:03pm
Re: Re: Jardine
>"Some of us were doing this stuff and writing it up before he entered the scene with his corn pasta." I was doing this 30 years ago. Not as light and not with as much support and ...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 18, 7:55pm
Re: source?
My house.

In Chaff » Who has a wife who backpacks with them who always has cold feet?
February 18, 12:11pm
Re: Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
Jardine has more than a little of the proselytizer in him and, if preaching to unenlightened masses carrying massive weight, that may be quite appropriate. Personally, I have long agreed with hi...

In GEAR » Which cannonballs should I be looking at?
February 18, 12:08pm

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