This morning here is extraordinary sunny, so coffee makes it perfect (really, how do you make your coffee during the trips?) About wine & food: We did try actually create many Greek dishes during last summer and the wine was found essential (during the weekend trips we are sharing a bottle together with Rita, so no muddlehead =safety problems) ;-) Stuffed wine leaves, filled mushrooms rice & wild rice and olives with bread sticks do make quite a good summer meal in a cool shadow of a tree - I am longing for it so much... Actually, during the longer trips I tried making rice and adding ready-mix soup powder to the boiling water: Mexican and chicken soups. Easy to pack & carry. Really heavy stuff, so it was definitely power food but later, one was really supposed to take care of the ventilation of the tent :-) Actually, very awful...and not very aesthetic. As if the neoprene socks wouln´t be enough. Cheers, Ari Saarto "In the not-so-cold-as-you-might-think Fin-land" Kannaksenkatu 22 / P.O. 92 15141 Lahti - Finland - Europe GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892 fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815 e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
...but it IS very cold, in spite of what Ari might say: Ari Saarto wrote: > ...SNIP... > Ari Saarto > "In the not-so-cold-as-you-might-think Fin-land" So Ari, now that I have your attention, I have a couple of questions for you (one of which is serious). (1) Are skegs quite popular in "Fin-land", and is that how it got its name? :-) (2) What can you tell us about Finnish kayaks? Some of these designs look quite intriguing, such as the Artisan: http://com.utu.fi/kajaksport/english/artisan2.htm Some of the other boats designed by Benny Aumala also look quite interesting. Any feedback on these designs? Finally, I leave you with a saying that was given to me by a beautiful Finnish girl that I knew when I lived in Norway: "Ilta on aamua viisaampi." Dan Hagen Bellingham, Washington P.S. Please do not bother to respond in Finnish--I have just exhausted my entire vocabulary. I gave up trying to learn Finnish when I found out that there are 17 noun cases! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
>> Anyone knows any answers to the ice-cream problem? > Try Dry Ice in a Softpack Cooler, I don't know about where you >are, bet those little "cooler packs" are everywhere around here. >have taken Frozen stuff on overnight hiking trips and as long as I >put the stuff that needs to stay frozen in the middle of my pack it >stays pretty good for quite a while - The rest of the pack acts as an >insulator. I bet it would work in a kayak as well. > >Cheers, > >Ari Saarto >"In the not-so-cold-as-you-might-think Fin-land" On one summer trip out to the barrier islands off Texas (read... very warm temperatures), one of the paddlers packed some fajitas in dry ice. What a treat for primitive camping on a warm Texas night. Never would have made it if he'd packed with regular ice. We would always try to have ice at least the first night for a summer trip. That would happen if we left the mainland in the evening and crossed over at night. No ice in the morning. Cheers, Jackie _ _ _ _ _ \\ / \0/ \ / \0/ \ \\ " " `\ ,sSSs,\, )\w/( ,sSS..)/{) <<..> sSSS_v)/ \ )<*> sSS[(\_]___\ <(_/_o_o_ 'sS[_`-+---+) \----+-------+-------'---`-----\-------------') ~~~~~~~ ~~jf ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~\~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ o \ o \\ o o \\ o o ` (\ o o >jf:-) o (/ o *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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