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  1. Hello. I would like to edit this article to...

    Hello. I would like to edit this article to improve it for the community. How would you like me to do that? YerbaJon
  2. Soy Milk Alternative

    A great alternative to soy milk (soy juice) is oat milk. It is the same price and unlike soy, which tastes kinda' like milk, the oat milk tastes better than milk. It works wonders with cereal, in...
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    Calories

    Read somewhere that smoking increases your calorie needs, thus not good for thru hikers as calories are at a premium.
    More addictive than cocaine said Attorney General years ago. Those looking to...
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    Wilderness experience

    Neo, many do agree.
    Here is a question to stir this up a bit:
    Does thru-hiking/mile-counting conflict with the wilderness experience?
    I will feed the fire a bit here with a few comments. It...
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    Alone in the woods...

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    Eloquently put Madmantra.

    I find this topic interesting because it seems to hit at the "heart" of many hikers' hiking concept; many hikers are looking to get out into the woods (i.e.,...
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    Poll: Floss!

    Approximately 1/3 of the surface of teeth are not being cleaned if you don't floss, no matter how well you brush!

    Many dentists argue that flossing is more important than brushing.
    Few to none...
  7. Eggs

    Egg storage without refrigeration is something well discussed in literature, most of it is literature that is over 80 years old. Still, I post the following information from...
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    Other considerations

    The hat suggestion is key because so much of our heat is lost from the head. I will add that an estimated 35% of the heat is loss from the exposed face. If you really want to warm up than I would...
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    Poll: Beer and God

    Man made beer.
    God made pot.
    God is perfect.
    Man is not.
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    "A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put
    the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it...
  10. Thread: Rant

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    Freedom of Speech

    <!--StartFragment -->"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."--Hugo L. Black,...
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    Word! When we are wronged in any way then we are...

    Word! When we are wronged in any way then we are changed by it; often we have fear of things we did not have a fear of before. I can only imagine that when trauma is involved in the equation that the...
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    Great idea; fundamentals. I am thinking of...

    Great idea; fundamentals.

    I am thinking of adopting this and modifying it a bit to refer to my wife and I as "part of a larger group".
    Us? Alone? Just for a bit, we are waiting on the rest of...
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    Violance in relationships

    Minor clarification: Male homosexual relationships have the least number of violence, heterosexual relationships slightly more violent, and the most violent relationships are seen in female...
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    Risks

    Mags, you hit it well. You remind me that whatever our gender, we all share a similar statistical risk of injury or violence. We naturally fear the unknown, and the woods is in a way the unknown;...
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    Men Are In Greater Risk of Danger

    Ok, ready your wit and threats of retribution as I tell you what you do not want to hear:
    As a culture we care more about women as victims than we do about men as victims. I am not just claiming...
  16. Olive Oil

    Thanks for bringing this up. I am going to reference this article into the primer. I have heard some doctors are recommending 4tbs. olive oil/day as a result of this study. Of course, fresh...
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    Poll: aluminum gauge

    I use twig stove similar design to yours: Nimblewill Nomad's Wood Burning Stove; http://zenstoves.net/Wood.htm.

    I used a tomato can wood stove before the Niblewill Nomad's stove. The new one is...
  18. Eat in town

    Thank you Dances with Mice. I have added in your points to highlight the importance of good town food. I posted them in the article. Here is the relevent Section:


    REST!
    Give muscles a chance to...
  19. as you wish....

    I don't think that protein gets absorbed into water.
    I don't think all the nutrients get extracted from vegetables at temperatures below boiling.
    I think that pressure/suction is required to...
  20. Only concern to a hiker is that the french press...

    Only concern to a hiker is that the french press might not be a part of their supplies and a french press weighs more than the straw. And a french press does not extract as many nutrients as sucking...
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    Funny Stuff

    This is hilarous. I did tripple takes.
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    Poll: "falling into" our age

    You made me think of George Carlin's analysis about growing old:

    YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED, we had to...
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    experiment

    Gulp! You are more gutsy than me. Not to mention the fact that my wife would laugh at me for a long time if I screw it up. If no one knows, I suppose I would be wise to soak some old synthetic liner...
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    Hmmm....... I guess you have a good point there....

    Hmmm....... I guess you have a good point there. I thought I knew the what, but you have me re-examining the point.

    Go free, eh?
    My gut reaction is that I hate synthetics to touch me privies. ...
  25. I posted this in the article. Great summary of...

    I posted this in the article. Great summary of the overall "riggers of the hike" on the body. Thank you!
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