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If you are interested in coming over and hiking the Appalachian Trail check, this guide out. I have one and it is the best AT reference I have ever seen. All the hard work, (except the walking! ), has been done for you: https://www.whiteblazepages.com/store/

Check out this site: http://www.trailcooking.com/

Over here in the states, we have recycling machines that you place the bottles, or aluminum cans, into. The machine scans the bar code on the container to verify if it is returnable, and determines the amount of deposit to be refunded.The container is then chopped into small pieces about the...

"I was out sick the day they covered pulling out of a dive at flight school!"

I have had good results using this technique. No glue/epoxy required: I found a good method of fitting the two halves of a soda can stove together. I drill the jet holes and cut out the center hole of the stove first, and then I make sure that the cut edges of the cans are smooth. Take an...

They were called "Ohio Blue Tip" strike anywhere matches. I used to dip the heads in candle wax to waterproof them and make them burn longer. I can't find them over here in the states. Seems that too many idiots were putting them in their pockets and setting them off.:yikes: Since no one here...

A lot of us slow-witted colonists over here in the USA have trouble understanding what our friends in the mother country are saying (Remember Churchill's comment about 2 countries separated by a common language?) :confused: And I suppose that works both ways! :aargh4: Well...I have found a...

;) Check out my "Goya Stove" project at http://www.backpacking.net/ listed under "Make Your Own Gear". Also, the "Stove Efficiency " article and accompaning fuel consumption spreadsheet for homemade stove fanatics. :D at...

I was thinking of a Daisy handle-pumped BB gun. I actually hit a rabbit once (lucky shot) with a Daisy and saw the BB bounce off without the rabbit even breaking stride. ( I was 14 years old then, and I have given up hunting 40 years ago, when I was 17- I am not a bloodthirsty, gun-toting...

Use what Elmer would use...12 Guage, 5 shot, semi-auto with #6 shot. :AR15firin An air rifle is just going to annoy them, not stop them. :aargh4:

OH...I finally got it...M8= "Mate"! Right? :oh: (Kind of slow-witted over here in the colonies :)

Ed's the name...hiking's the game.

The hawk in my neighborhood likes them raw! :eek: He also likes pigeons! :yikes: You should the critters disappear when the big bad bird is overhead. :sulkoff: Harry Houdini would be proud... :)

You might use a potato chip bag clip to secure the tube, or a binder clip from the office supply store.

You fill them through the bottom of the tube, which is open, fold over the open bottom to close the tube, and secure the contents with a clip that slides over the folded over end of the tube. The clip is not that apparent in the photo. These are similar to the Gerry (Gerry Mountain Sports--now...