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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Arden Kysely"
wrote:
> My Timex handles the alarm chores for me--at home, on the road, or
in
> camp. Though after a late night and enough liquid campout, I
sometimes
> don't hear it.
I had that problem. Solution? Very small $6 LCD travel alarm clock
from Wal-Mart. Cheap, easy to use, compact, always wakes me up, runs
on one AA battery that is available anywhere, and it wakes me up
(bears repeating).
This is something where getting fancy just isn't worth it.
Oh, the $5 aluminum grease strainer you'll find in the kitchenware
department at Wal-Mart makes a dandy low-cost low-weight pot for
boiling water on the road. Combine with a pop bottle filled with
alcohol, a pot holder made of circled hardware cloth tied together
with twist-ties, and an alcohol burner made of soda pop cans and
hi-temp epoxy, and a wind screen made of folded aluminum foil
clipped together with a paper clip. Put pot holder and burner into
pot, put lid on pot with rubber bands to hold it on, toss into
baggage, now you have hot water for tea or coffee or pouring into a
freeze-dried meal pouch if necessary (ick! definitely prefer eating
real food!). Total cost ~ $10. You don't *have* to buy some
expensive $$ titanium widget just to boil water, y'know, and
frankly, when I'm on the road I do my darndest to make sure I end up
near some restaurant at meal time because while trail food tastes
okay if you spent most of the day slogging down a trail on foot, if
you spent the day on a KLR instead it tastes like blah.
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Blake Sobiloff
http://sobiloff.typepad.com/blakeblog/>
San Jose, CA (USA)
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