Re: Bears and Coffee - Need It In Canister

In article <voECe.55$4v6.1088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ed Huesers <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>Some Like it Cold.
>>> It's easy on convert people if they are adventurous.
> > Convert what? Dollars to scents?
>
> From Webster: Convert: To change from one state, use, religion, or
>party to another; to turn from a bad life to a good....
> Isn't the snow you glide on holy!

Oh I guess you can have Holy snow.


>>> I hardly camp anymore in the summer.
>
> Well, then it looks like I camp at home during the summer. Don't get
>me wrong, I do a few overnighters through the summer but not nearly what
>I do when there is snow. Permits are much easier at present.
> I mostly do day trips in the summer, peak bagging... what ever.

Permits aren't a major problem. I go into lots of areas which don't
requirements (big state), but I do get them at times. Or I let others
get them.

>>>>>Seeing modern material problems I'm thinking of going with the old
>>>>>waxed canvas type of gear. It lasts longer.
>>> Have been using a pulk lately. I am going canoeing
>> You still have to haul the waxed canvas on the slide. Blue Star in
>> Montana makes the big polar tents. It's just dead weight.
>
> Oh, I'll agree with the canvas tents being dead weight but pants and
>jacket can be light enough. The Finns use the cotton anorak. I used to
>have a cotton [65%] coat that worked well and lasted longer than any
>synthetic coat I've had.

Oh I had a 60/40 65/35 jacket.
I think that wear does depend on use.


>> I like to keep even my boats light.
>
> On my pulk trip to Jellystone last season, I brought a gallon of
>milk. There were a few other things I don't normally bring but the extra
>weight was not bad at all unless the going was very steep and then not
>as bad as I expected.

Luxury!


>> snot rags,
>
> Mine are cotton and would get washed in an extended trip.

Reusable ones are good.

>> but also it's much more fragile.
>
> A person's nose? Yes.

Tissues. The nose can get abraded.

>>>>develop your first snoticle.
>>> Barnyard blow helps a lot. Trick is not to touch the nose in the
>
> If the skin gets wet at all, more snow sticks when it is drifting.
>What ever one wipes with needs to dry the skin so the snow doesn't
>stick. Also toughing the skin seems to warm it up so the snow melts when
>it hits instead of bouncing of the chilled skin.
> I also do this with my hands. I don't wear gloves until it is colder
>than 15 f. and then only out in the wind. If the hands are kept dry
>until they chill the snow doesn't stick to them.

I go the other way. The gloves for the surface area go first.
Strip the tops to tee shirts or no shirts until later/colder.

>>>>lick a frozen pole.
>> An intelligence test.
>
> I hear people lose enough taste buds when they get older.

We do like loss of sight and loss of hearing.


>>>>>>It's clean.
>>>>>Flounder in the snow and cleanse thyself.
>>>>PB do that.
>>> Buffalo put their bodies to Mother Earth to rid themselves of
>>>parasites. Snow and ice is the polar region's Mother Earth.
>> Life is tough for polar paraites.
>
> True, PB are just taking a snowbath.

Occasionally, not always.


>>>>A coworker asked for a Narwhal tusk.
>>> Narwhal?
>> A whale.
> Ah, one of the reasons they are allowed to sell ivory.

Subsistence living.


>>>>aca: Bud
>> He was a good HS teacher.
> Energetic.

He was into snow machining.


>> More money maintaining the Internet.
> And it sounds like they are cutting the education system's budget.

They might, but I just think that Bud saw more money in admining.


>>> Santa or Lewis and Clark, who is more important?
>> Santa. L&C are not AK.
> Fiction?

Santa postmarks N.Pole, AK letters.


>>> I remember the lake filling up. Always wondered what the floating
>>> rocks where. Foamed clay from burning coal veins.
>> Tieup floats?
>
> Nope, glass.

Then pumice.

> > Pumice?
>
> I've always heard that pumice was volcanic but Webster just says
>light porous rock used for polishing. It's identical to pumice but not
>of volcanic origin.

I have a number of pumice rocks from Baja which I have found floating.


>>> Reminds me of one of the short stories in Enos Mill's "Grizzly". He
>>>was playing leapfrog with a grizz once.
> Heh, not that kind of leapfrog. He was tracking it and then the
>grizz circled and he was being tracked. Then he circled and so on. It
>went on for quite a while.

Crazy Ivan.....


>>>>>More power!
>>>>Tool Time.
>>> I did like it but don't really watch TV.
>> What made it likeable?
>
> The humor, a lot like Python with Tim being obsessed.

Hmmmm. I've never gotten the idea about the neighbor who was never seen
face on.

>> Besides Pat Richardson as Mom.
> Ah, you know more than I do.

Likely not much.

>>>>Many interesting things come in cans.
>>> Hard to find good beer in cans.
>>> Some of the micro brews are doing it.
>> I think things more interesting that beer comes in cans.
>
> I must have a limited imagination.

Drink less.


>> Get Watson for that.
> Lobstrgrrl too. Pete knows good beer.

Oxidizes neurons. They collect around each other.

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