[pct-l] Best trail bowl... Ever (was 3L soda bottles)

[Christine Kudija" <cmkudija@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christine Kudija)]

Re: lightweight bowls - we use the plastic bowls from supermarket or Trader
Joe's rice bowls.  There's one style that has a stiffener ridge around the
bottom edge of the bowl that creates a groove on the inside of the bowl -
not easy to clean, and you can't tell which one you're buying when you buy
the frozen rice bowl.  But there's another style that lacks this groove -
we've found this to be the best, easiest to clean, etc.  Chuck-Igor trimmed
the top edge of the bowls' rims to make them fit inside our Mirro aluminum
pot.   Together, they weigh about 1/2 oz, and might even be resistant to
crampon-stabbing ;-).

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija

"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top.
Then you will see how low it was."  Dag Hammarskjold

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Wilson" <BWIL5272@postoffice.uri.edu>
To: <CMountainDave@aol.com>; <pct-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:12 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Best trail bowl... Ever (was 3L soda bottles)


I was reading in a recent Backpacker Magazine how to make a light-weight
bowl.

They said to take an old platypus bag (2 or 3 liters) and cut off the top
2/3 to 1/2... Then use the bottom as a bowl. Since the bags can hold boiling
water, the bowl can handle any hot food you may eat on trail. After your
meal, the bowl folds flat for storage.

I wouldn't have thought of this and it sounds like a cool idea. If you use
one of the non-zipper bags, it will even stand up on a flat surface.

I don't really have a bag I want to chop up at this point, and I usually
just eat out of my Ti pot... But this may be a possibility later down the
trail.

-Brad


On 4/14/03 11:03 AM, "CMountainDave@aol.com" <CMountainDave@aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 4/13/03 9:18:08 PM, dave@livebythepark.com writes:
>
> << My point was serious wide mouth and 3 liters.  I don't know about the
>
> mid-west, but I've been buying pop for years and never seen a 3 liter
'till
>
> now.
>
>>>
>
> As usual, there is an upside and downside to everything. A 3 liter pop
bottle
> has to take up a lot of space in a pack. But it weighs very little and
costs
> next to nothing
> I used 2 MSR wide mouth dromedary bags on my hike. They take up very
little
> space when empty and not needed and they are bomb proof. However, they are
> relatively heavy and expensive.
> Platypuses are a good idea, but they are not nearly as bomb proof as the
> dromedaries. I've had a couple that sprung leaks , especially the one that
> got stabbed with my crampons.
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