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REALLY like the straw trick! I've been trying to figure out how to get individual servings of stuff like neosporin without spending lots of money at REI. Time to snitch some straws from Chik-fil-A....

I have it! I sleep cold, so I only use it in the summer. I've had it in WV over Memorial Day and been a little chilly with it - but, again, I sleep really cold. It is compact and pretty light. I like...

Try sunflower seed butter! Or another nut butter, like almond. :D

my cousin and i make this with malted milk powder, but any powdered milk - Nido or otherwise - works well. never thought to put it in squeeze tubes! We usually make balls and roll in cocoa powder or...

GAAAAAAAHHHH!!

I have a class I need to be in on the 15th. BOOO. Guess i will have to catch up with you guys another time. :(

so is the two day plan turning into Water Gap to Wind Gap, then?

More importantly, will there be scones and bacon?? :banana

me too me too!!

i have to check the calendar. and i may bring a friend along, who's dying to backpack in the Shennies, but he's never been out on the trail before. :p

i'm amazed and disappointed that bacon took three pages before showing up in earnest on this thread!

my vote is for bacon. or duck confit. duck fat may be the one food that could give bacon a run...

We've been going to the Mohonk Preserve/Mohonk Mountain House up in New Paltz, NY (two separate landowners with adjacent lands). The Mountain House grooms and tracks the trails, some of which are on...

I have this tent for car camping: http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Hooligan-2-Backpacking-Tent/dp/B0016HMBN0

It's not too cozy for two people (two women, anyway), and we even got a (small) dog in...

Got a sample today of some new flavors of VIA, Starbucks' instant coffee. I have a friend who's a store manager...apparently they're going to be sampling them officially starting next week. Flavors...

hemlocks have flat needles with two white lines on the underside.

red oaks have points on their leaves, white oaks have rounded lobes.

if you scratch the bark off a twig of yellow birch, it...

do you need permits to camp along the Batona trail?

LOL - I'll add some in when I make it on the trail! :D

It'll be a while...my next trip's not planned til April. But I will take pics!

They make special 5-point dog harnesses with handles for helping lift your dog over obstacles, like boulders if you're scrambling, or ladders. They make them as just harnesses, but also as packs:...

No problem! Recipe sounds delicious - I'll try it on my next trip!

you can call it Elvis Pie! he loved peanut butter and banana sandwiches. :banana

Packit Gourmet also sells cheese sauce powder: http://www.packitgourmet.com/Cheese-Sauce-Powder-p315.html

They have a blue cheese version as well.

The piriformis *is* an external hip rotator. :) And I agree, piriformis syndrome is a bitch.

acupuncture was the ONLY thing that helped with the back pain that I was having a few years ago (from osteoarthritis, not sciatica). For some reason, my SI joint keeps going out and giving me sciatic...

Way to organize a winter shakedown on an unseasonably warm day AGAIN, ShLep. :p Have fun out there!

Well, if you guys are going up the Red Dot, I'm glad I'm not going...that scramble and I are NOT friends! (Although maybe if I hiked it *without* whiplash, it'd be a better time...)

I will miss...

AARRRRRRRGGGH!! :mad:

Now I can't come on this one either!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Gahh....I can't come to this one. Next weekend's looking like a mayyyyybe. Stupid last-minute schedule shakeup!