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Post by missasip on Jan 17, 2013 9:44:15 GMT -7
….say you don’t mind smelling like the south end of a north bound mule after a week in the bush? Can eat and survive on bugs, snare caught field rats and eat poke salad forever? Drink pine bark tea like crazy? Make a fire with two sticks? Sleep in a leaf hut in 20* and be cozy as can be?
Tell us some of your adventures.
It’s been kinda serious on here lately. Share some stories.. lets have a laugh and some learning going on to boot. Got this idea from bjs thread “duck report”. Didn't want to hijack his thread.
Jimmy
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Post by thywar on Jan 17, 2013 10:15:21 GMT -7
Oh the places to start.. BUT.. While I have attained that odoriferous position I have yet to sleep in a leaf hut in 20* weather, drink bark tea and subsist solely on tree rats. I have, however, spent 5 days with Wtrfwlr in the 'u n a bo mber cabin '(just in case we're being tracked I didn't want to put that name in a post). Yes it got that cold, yes I slept on the floor and yes the Coleman two burner stove conceived a leak and yes I almost burned the cabin down.. Fortunately I managed to get the burning stove out the door where I promptly set it on the ground and the leaves caught fire.. (I'm thinking 'oh great, I saved the cabin but I'm going to burn down the forest')... actually I managed to get the fire put out with minimal damage. Well except the stove changed from a nicely painted green to 'soot black'. Anyone who's been to Philmont Scout Ranch probably has either experienced first hand or known someone who had 'Tetrox Trots'. That's probably more than enough information right there.. suffice to say that Tetrox is what they give you to 'clean' the pots and pans. Deadly, absolutely deadly. lol
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Post by Lawdog2705 on Jan 17, 2013 10:41:57 GMT -7
Sounds like ya'll had a good time thywar... LOL
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Post by missasip on Jan 17, 2013 10:42:26 GMT -7
Oh the places to start.. BUT.. While I have attained that odoriferous position I have yet to sleep in a leaf hut in 20* weather, drink bark tea and subsist solely on tree rats. I have, however, spent 5 days with Wtrfwlr in the 'u n a bo mber cabin '(just in case we're being tracked I didn't want to put that name in a post). Yes it got that cold, yes I slept on the floor and yes the Coleman two burner stove conceived a leak and yes I almost burned the cabin down.. Fortunately I managed to get the burning stove out the door where I promptly set it on the ground and the leaves caught fire.. (I'm thinking 'oh great, I saved the cabin but I'm going to burn down the forest')... actually I managed to get the fire put out with minimal damage. Well except the stove changed from a nicely painted green to 'soot black'. Anyone who's been to Philmont Scout Ranch probably has either experienced first hand or known someone who had 'Tetrox Trots'. That's probably more than enough information right there.. suffice to say that Tetrox is what they give you to 'clean' the pots and pans. Deadly, absolutely deadly. lol ROFL!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D What's scary is that kinda stuff happens to everyone... ;D Had a dose of Montezuma’s Revenge one time, but it wasn't in Mexico.... Broke me from sucking eggs as we like to say down here in the deep south.... Don't care how clean and pretty that stream water looks... ;D Jimmy
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Post by pathwinder14 on Jan 18, 2013 14:00:27 GMT -7
O.K. Here's one from my youth. I was in B.S.A. as a kid. We went to Philmont in the summer of '93. One evening we were camped in a clearing near the edge of some woods. Several of us were sitting on a downed tree as we were eating dinner. My friend Ollie gets up to get something and just as he's away we hear a loud creak coming from the woods. A tall widowmaker fell right where he was sitting. Nearly scared the poop out of us. Anyone who's been to Philmont Scout Ranch probably has either experienced first hand or known someone who had 'Tetrox Trots'. That's probably more than enough information right there.. suffice to say that Tetrox is what they give you to 'clean' the pots and pans. Deadly, absolutely deadly. lol They didn't issue that stuff when I was there. They gave us food packs that came with this powdered Kool Aid like stuff. We used it to clean pots and pans with...we would then drink the mix (food bits and all). After they were cleaned of all food debris we would rinse with clean water repeatedly then drink that.
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Post by mud on Jan 19, 2013 3:07:41 GMT -7
Took our Royal Rangers troop to Devil's Den state park for a camping trip. Was going over the 7 steps to evaluating a casualty with my brother as the victim and one of our boys, who was mentally impaired tossed a log on the camp fire. The result was a hot coal flying out and landing on his crotch! ....we made my brother do his own first aid....
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Post by wtrfwlr on Jan 19, 2013 6:43:19 GMT -7
Now that's FUNNY! ;D
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Post by missasip on Jan 19, 2013 7:29:51 GMT -7
Oh no that is more than funny there mud.
Jimmy
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Post by Cwi555 on Jan 19, 2013 8:09:44 GMT -7
Mud that one is going to be hard to top... LOL
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Post by USCGME2 on Jan 24, 2013 7:52:38 GMT -7
May have shared this before but, myself and a buddy went hiking a trail along the MO river near North County STL. We were about 13 at the time. We came across some old limestone foundations and walls dating from way back. We thought, what a convienient place to build a little fire to cook our little can of soup. Ever build a fire on a limestone foundation? Well, the fire was going nicely, the soup warming up and BOOM! It sounded like a hand grenade went off! Blew the soup can ten feet in the air, the fire coals spread out everywhere, and we both got burned a little in the process. There was a nice little divit wallowed out where the fire was too. Just like someone had carved a bowl in it. Luckily, we were not really injured if not scared half to death. No soup and a long walk back we learned to NEVER, EVER, use limestone around open fire and build that fire on the ground!
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Post by angelhelp on Jan 24, 2013 10:36:10 GMT -7
Need to understand a bit here... was there water within the limestone that made it suddenly go kerblooey? Is it something we should all presume to be the case at all times? I know about limestone caves and the dripping that forms the stalactites & stalagmites over time, but I didn't know that limestone "comes with" water included -- if that's what I'm supposed to infer here.
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Post by USCGME2 on Jan 24, 2013 13:15:15 GMT -7
Yes Angel, that is my understanding. It was water trapped within the rock that makes it go boom. It was loud too! Apparently, you cant use an Oxy-Actetalyne torch to solder copper tubing on concrete, basically same thing happens there too . Got a piece of hot debris in corner of my eye on that one. Very lucky not loose my sight in that eye. Read it somewhere later that you should never use limestone around a fire. I had to agree... ;D
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Post by missasip on Jan 24, 2013 15:16:17 GMT -7
Yes Angel, that is my understanding. It was water trapped within the rock that makes it go boom. It was loud too! Apparently, you cant use an Oxy-Actetalyne torch to solder copper tubing on concrete, basically same thing happens there too . Got a piece of hot debris in corner of my eye on that one. Very lucky not loose my sight in that eye. Read it somewhere later that you should never use limestone around a fire. I had to agree... ;D Thanks for the heads up. We have some creeks around here with soapstone. No fires on that stuff either!!!! Jimmy
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Post by offtrail on May 15, 2013 20:30:14 GMT -7
Yes Angel, that is my understanding. It was water trapped within the rock that makes it go boom. It was loud too! Apparently, you cant use an Oxy-Actetalyne torch to solder copper tubing on concrete, basically same thing happens there too . Got a piece of hot debris in corner of my eye on that one. Very lucky not loose my sight in that eye. Read it somewhere later that you should never use limestone around a fire. I had to agree... ;D Thanks for the heads up. We have some creeks around here with soapstone. No fires on that stuff either!!!! Jimmy Great thread and some good stories ;D ;D ;D
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Post by mountainmark on May 16, 2013 13:15:29 GMT -7
Lol, some good stories here I worked for a while as a camp cook for the CCC SPIKE crews and would basically just make b-fast for the crew, lay out their lunches, do camp chores and make sure dinner was ready when the crews returned. We were generally pretty far out so supplies would come in a mule train. There were a decent amount of brown bears out there but they generally were easily deterred by banging pots and pans together and food was kept in buried coolers covered with wet burlap, so the bears usually came only when I was cooking. Well, one day I was walking out of camp to do my business and I came up to some bushes. All the sudden a huge bear stood up from the other side and there I was without so much as a pot to bang ;D If I wasn't previously relieved, I was at that point ;D Luckily the bear seemed about as startled as I was and bounded off much to my relief as he was within swiping distance I decided after that that a cook should always carry a pot.....or two
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