[at-l] Fw: Thru hiker Survivor Fire

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

Great story!  [Ahem!]  Maybe you should have offered them just one more
of them "vaseline balls" - for private use in their tent  . . . in order
to "grease" the bruised ego making up process, so to speak! :) :)

thru-thinker [or, as curtis would say, "greased balls!"]

Jason Ball wrote:
> 
>  a better basic skill would be something like food management (there
> was one kid with a three pound tub of peanut butter in his pack for the
> 2-3-4
> day hike - I didn't ask how many pounds of jelly and bread he was carrying).
> Yikes!!!
> 
> This reminds me of one trip I took. I met up with a couple of late
> teens/early twenty something's. They had Jam (1/4 jar), Peanut Butter (big
> full tub), 4-5 tins of soup, 2 - KD still in the boxes, Puritan Stew in the
> can, Butter (1 full lb.), a 12 pack of wieners, a full size fry pan and pot
> from the kitchen along with an egg flipper, etc and no stove. When I asked
> them how they were going to cook supper, the guy stated matter of factly, on
> a fire. Well I wished them a good supper and went back to my tent site to
> prepare supper. I boiled my water and had a great pasta and alfredo with
> some garlic toast (bagels) made on my dragonfly. The Jell-O pudding for
> desert was great (I had extra and shared it with them). During my whole
> meal, I watched them get out all of this food and pots and pans and then the
> fire making started. They must have been gone for 30 minutes collecting wood
> (none near the tent sites - been picked clean). Well the poor guy was
> lighting match after match and his girlfriend was constantly looking over as
> I know my garlic toast could be smelt over there. I  had to go over and
> offer my stove to them which he declined. I finally bent down with my cotton
> balls mixed with Vaseline (petrol jelly), and lit them a fire. With a fire,
> a bruised ego, and a very pissed off girlfriend, you think that poor guy
> would have been moody but he and I and even she had a great talk about what
> he should be taking when hiking and that he should always be able to start a
> fire (even if you have to cheat a little). Never know when you may need one.
> Jakealoo
> 
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