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Here's another good backpacking possibility if you prefer the beach when the hot weather hits. http://www.patc.net/hiking/destinations/assateag.html

regards,
bill

The MDTS begins in Chaddsford Pa. and heads west through Delaware, Maryland and back into Pa. west to the Appalachian trail. You can pick it up at Havre de Grace just 25 miles northeast of baltimore....

a real flashlite (multi-cell w/bright beam) and a rapala fillet knife.

Bill

Uscg 1969 - 1989

link to tire sandal instructions
www.hollowtop.com/sandals.htm

regards, bill

Hoodoo
thanks for the link.. yeah retired from uscg in 1989. enlisted telephon tech, then ocs and flew the herc for the last ten years out of e-city and kodiak.
73's
bill

my greasepot is only used to boil the water used to add to food in a freezerbag. no problems with a dirty pot. check out www.freewebs.com/freezerbagcooking/index.htm

regards,
bill

any "light" reading.

a trail meal that seems to go over well with my kids is a pot of chicken flavered ramen thickened with a couple tablespoons of instant potatoes, add a foil pouch or can of cooked chicken and lots-o...

I worked and lived on Kodiak from '84 to '89. you're going to love the park.

regards,
bill

Rock,
i read in Flyin' Brians journal where he carried a bag of small sheet metal screws and a nut driver. he would screw them in where he needed them and remove and reuse as required.I've not...

I read in a training program for bicycle racing that 1500mg a day is the common dose and that greater doses don't appear to give greater returns. Also the effect can be noticed as soon as two weeks...

I made a 42" x 82" quilt with 2" primaloft insulation. has worked very well in PA April through September. I'd guess 30 deg. F and above. I just wish I had made it a tad wider, maybe 50" for easier...

size 13 wide.

regards,
Bill SLABonik

please note that May 1 to 29 is PA's spring turkey season. this area is well populated with turkey and pretty well hunted. red, white, browns,and blue colors have been cofused by hunters calling in...

homesewn pack 14oz.
homesewn quilt 21oz.
silnylon tarp 16oz.
3/4 ridgrest 9oz.

total 3.75lbs.

minus 18 F. Manashka bay, Kodiak with boyscouts on weekend campout. the ranger came and got me the second nite to take my wife to the clinic to deliver my daughter Katie.

just about any pepsi can stove rocks. you can buy em, youcan build em in about 10 minutes. I used mine down to 10 deg. F on a breezy day and got my meal just the way I like it. I tried to build just...

did up a lipton noodle side (alfredo i think) added a foil pouch of cooked chicken, whenit was done thickened with 3 or 4 tablespoons of instant potato buds. taste was very much like grammy's pot...

Two years ago on the old rail bed just east of rausch gap shelter I walked up on a blackbear laying on the bridge. I had to cross the bridge, so I shouted and waved til he slowly got up and waddled...

small light water resistant great pictures, $80 at B&W in new york

bill

did not see him but met ed speer and bought his book. made the drive there worthit for me.

did the bucktail path(nicely graded with good switchbacks) and the donut hole(mostly strait ups and downs) without meeting a single hiker. many good trails up above loch haven for solitude.

mix silicone caulk(clear)with naptha(or white gas) 1:1 ratio, ventillation and caution of course. gas evaporates, silicone seals.

nice review, thanx hamsta!