Posted on 06/12/2013 9:39:28 PM PDT by Baynative
BEAR1 TO BEAR2: “Mmmmmm, this one doesn’t require peeling!”
Re: cotton balls.
Don’t forget to buy some of those little prepackaged
alcohol wipes, they take up little room and are very good
for cleaning cuts etc. I have found them to
be great fire starters, just tear the package open
and they burn with a hot flame.
Be careful though, an alcohol flame is blue and
hard to see.
I grab a few extra every time we got to Buffalo Wild Wings (thats every other week).
I have a couple of those cleaning packs floating around in all my rucks, packs and fanny packs.
They're still polluting the hot springs up in the Jemez.
Oh, and about alcohol - one of my fun toys is a home made coke can alcohol stove.
Little sucker can put out some heat but is very unstable/tippy. Good for the ultra light trips.
I didn’t know they used the Alcohol ones at wing places.
Why take a fanny pack on a spiritual trip?
Did it have her allergy pills, her asthma inhaler, distilled water? Her sunscreen?
More likely her “plan B” pills.....
Don’t know what’s in them - just know they work good. Don’t need them for fire starting as I keep a number of other items around.
In the woods a good rule to live by is “Two is one and one is none.”
My small individual first aid kit does have a couple of the straight alcohol packs.
Sounds like the city slickers that decided they were going to a guided elk hunt in Montana. They bought all the latest and greatest gear, clothing, rifles, scopes, arranged the hunt through a highly regarded guide and got on their plane to Montana with dreams of coming back with their elk antlers and stories of their manliness.
Once they got to the camp however, a severe winter storm started rolling in and the guide advised them, they wouldn’t be going out the next day. The next day, as the snow started to drift, the city slickers were getting impatient being cooped up in the tiny cabin and began to complain. The guide refused to take them out due to the severity of the weather.
On the third day, the weather had not improved in the least and the slickers demanded the guide give them their money back. The guide told them he had no influence over the weather. They had paid for a real Montana hunting experience, and dealing with the weather was part of that. Infuriated, they said, “Fine. If you’re not man enough to take us out hunting, we’re going to head out on our own.”
“No problem,” said the grizzled old guide. “Make sure you take all your gear. If it starts to snow hard, and you get lost, I want you to find a fallen tree with a nice, stout trunk. Kneel down against the side of the trunk, and drape your upper body over it.”
“That’ll keep us warm?” asked the slickers.
“Nope,” said the old mountaineer, “but it sure will make it easier to pack your bodies out by horseback come springtime.”
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