[at-l] must have been those rocks in my head

[icw at esisnet.com (Clark Wright)]

Like so much of life, it is all about perspective and context! :)  Now, 
here is a recipe that's as good in the living room as it is on the trail 
- at least when it is cold:  heat up some apple cider with some good 
light rum in it - goes down sooooo smooth, and then sneaks up on you! :)

thru-thinker, drinker, talker, walker and general all-around (a)muse(ment)

Jan Leitschuh wrote:

>>> [who, when it comes to beer is a thru-drinkin' thinker, but when it
>>>
>>>> comes to good bourbon, is definitely a fine drinker-thru to the 
>>>> bottom! :)]
>>>
>>
>> I like to take good bourbon and mix it with cherry koolaid.  From 
>> Colorado to Canada, I don't think I missed a night without having an 
>> after-dinner cocktail.  Man, were they good....  tasty!  A small 
>> reward that I looked forward to after a hard day hiking.  I toasted 
>> every one. Sly
>
>
> I think cherry kool-aid even has me beat, but here's my story and I'm 
> stickin' to it.
>
> I did a two-week h*rse-packing trip through the Bob Marshall 
> Wilderness in 1990. My buddy, who owned the horses and our pack mule, 
> packed in a bottle of Canadian Club whiskey for our after dinner 
> pleasure. We had a small daily ration each.
>
> It was so darn cold some nights, I found that heating my Tang (the 
> drink of the astronauts, you know) warmed me up, and it wasn't long 
> before that whiskey ration found its way into our after-dinner Tang 
> ration.
>
> Hot Tang and CC whiskey.
> Sipping it under the stars, around the campfire that had boiled our 
> potatoes was good.
>
> When I got home, I found myself making the unlikely concoction after 
> dinner, in the microwave. I did that for about one month, even 
> searching out and buying that particular brand of whiskey. One night, 
> I took my first sip of the evil brew and put it down for good. It was 
> ghastly. Tang??!!!
>
> I guess it was the associations and the trail hunger that made that 
> odd combo so tasty for me at the time.
>
> CocktailShoe
>
> PS It was also on that same trip that I saw BACKPACKER walking what 
> was likely a CDT route near The Chinese Wall. He was overloaded, and I 
> remember thinking "Man! Does that ever look HARD!!! You'd have to be 
> crazy to do that."
>
> Nothing in my subsequent experience has changed the essential truth of 
> those words, BTW...
>
>
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