Re: Bears and Coffee - Need It In Canister

Eugene Miya wrote: 
There is a new book on polar areas.
I think the title is Some Like it Cold.

Ed Huesers wrote:
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!

I hardly camp anymore in the summer. 

Well for me camping is merely what happens in the evening between
walking, kayaking, or climbing (for examples).

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.

Seeing modern material problems I'm thinking of going with the old
waxed canvas type of gear. It lasts longer.
Fine if you can afford the weight. 
 Have been using a pulk lately. I am going canoeing with my son the
end of Aug. Similar.


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.

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.

Trust me, no better snot surface. 
 Easily better than the wood pulp many use. It's the extended use that
get em.


Well winter has a couple problems, not merely limited resources
in what you carry and what you do with the snot rags,


   Mine are cotton and would get washed in an extended trip.

but also it's much more fragile. 

   A person's nose? Yes.

It only sounds funny to temperate types.  It's funny only until you
develop your first snoticle.


 Barnyard blow helps a lot. Trick is not to touch the nose in the
first place so it stays dry from snow hitting it.

These are all details. But I think the issue isn't touch.

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.

Almost as good as having them lick a frozen pole. 
 Glad I recognized the kid's mischievous smile when he told me to lick
the pole.
An intelligence test. 

   I hear people lose enough taste buds when they get older.

Oh how about: 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.

A coworker asked for a Narwhal tusk.
Narwhal?
A whale. 

   Ah, one of the reasons they are allowed to sell ivory.

aca: Bud
He was a good HS teacher. 

   Energetic.

More money maintaining the Internet. 

   And it sounds like they are cutting the education system's budget.

Santa or Lewis and Clark, who is more important?

Santa. L&C are not AK. 

   Fiction?

I remember the lake filling up. Always wondered what the floating
rocks where. Foamed clay from burning coal veins.

Tieup floats? 

   Nope, glass.

> 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.

 Reminds me of one of the short stories in Enos Mill's "Grizzly". He
was playing leapfrog with a grizz once.

Well trained maybe.

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.

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.

Besides Pat Richardson as Mom. 

   Ah, you know more than I do.

Many interesting things come in cans. 
 Hard to find good beer in cans.
 Some of the micro brews are doing it.

I think thing more interesting that beer comes in cans. 

   I must have a limited imagination.

Get Watson for that. 

   Lobstrgrrl too. Pete knows good beer.

   Ed Huesers
   Http://www.grandshelters.com
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