JTHats | June 12, 2010
More reasons to consider the Kindle for the trail are the many options which some consumers don’t realize are a part of the device. Advertised as a Ebook reader, the Kindle is much more that. Wireless connectivity and a built-in simple web browser give access not just to your Kindle account at Amazon but to many other important web services as well.
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JTHats | May 29, 2010
The Zatoichi sword stick is mainly for the collector of weapons and wouldn’t practically be a concealed blade today, although it is one legally. Most passers-by would recognize it as unusual, and no one with any degree of professional experience would miss it even without a metal detector. The days when these things were surprises are past. But it’s so cool!
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JTHats | May 23, 2010
With one type of sugar you get all the sugar results in one short rush, a surge up and a crash down, which isn’t fun. A good trail food will have simple sugars, complex sugars, carbohydrates and proteins, all of which are digested at different rates and available as steady energy for the long haul.
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JTHats | May 13, 2010
With some ingenious arranging of the pole frame from your Coleman tent you create a parabolic mirror from the space blanket, fill your cooking pot with the last of your water and a packet of ramen noodles, and inside of an hour you’ve got food slightly hotter than that sand dune.
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