The Marked Tree

Backpacking, Wilderness Survival, and Martial Arts

Picking a Mess of Poke Sallit

JTHats | June 9, 2009

There’s nothing quite like food that’s a little scary. Some people won’t eat pokeweed, poke salad, or poke sallit, because they fear it. A fair amount of wild food is like that, safe enough if you know what you’re doing, but if you don’t you shouldn’t be cooking it for supper. Poke is potentially one [...]

Paper Pot Cookware

JTHats | June 3, 2009

Lots of people are interested in saving weight and using space efficiently when they go out on the trail, but when I suggested this idea on a backpacking forum a few weeks ago the silence was resounding. Which surprises me, because it’s a lightweight spacesaving concept that I’ve actually used and I know it works. [...]