scoutfreakdad

Thats a great story, it is good to have well trained scouts, he will make a good man. after reading the story his partner was just along for the ride, there was a stringent verification process that probably dropped him out.

I apologize, I spoke to my oncologist today about this and he said it would take 5 bag omelets a day for 5 years to build up any kind of carcinogenic levels. I guess it just gives me the willies.

The Duluth bag has three peoples worth of gear, then there is the food pack and the canoe, we all carry something. I have never been before but I am told they are large square canvas bags. That looks heavy to me. http://www.ntier.org/Resources/Brochures/2011%20ERPG.pdf see page 8 of the planning guide above I do want to do single portages, typically they shouldnt be greater than 1mile, but there is a three mile one. I have read that we triple our work otherwise. All the boys are over 14y/o for high adventure, and my crew is reasonably fit, just not heavy pack strong. 90lbs is probably too much, I packed 40lbs last night in an alice pack and that seamed heavy.

I dont cook with plastic, it does generate carcinogens, In general, whenever food comes in contact with materials that are not inert there is a chance of chemical transfer and contamination. We are primarily concerned about plasticizers such as the various phthalates, acetyltributylcitrate and dioctyladipate, all of which are added to plastics to make the products flexible and less brittle. The concern is that if you heat up plastic food containers, utensils or plastic wrap, some of these chemicals could be released into food or beverage. As a general rule, the fattier the food, the more of the chemicals potentially can be absorbed and retained by it. my local oncologist say dont microwave your food with plastic. thats good enough for me. ill stick with my cast iron.

I am the adult advisor for a crew going to northern tier. Tomorrow we will start meeting in a local park once a week. I plan to start with a callisthenic program than concentrates on abdominal strength training. Planks, side planks, crunches, side crunches, reverse crunches, leg lifts, also pushups with varying hand positions. Im having the scouts bring there bedroll for this, they were also instructed to bring at least a litter of water. Then we will mount packs filled with a sleeping bag and weights, I will weight them with and without packs and adjust until they have 40lbs. This park is the hilliest place in town. We will not use waist belts. I plan to progressively increase the weight and distance until they are carrying 90lbs. for three miles. Questions: Should I base the pack weight off a percentage of there body weight? Do you have any advice on how to get them strong enough for the portages? Those Duluth bags weigh 80lbs and have no waist belt.

wow those cannon photos are sooo vivid, i'm interested in the cannon box.

I am looking for a camera that is durable and water Resistant. I am a scuba diver so I want one that fits in a camera case for diving. I am heading to northern tier this summer and thats what I am buying it for. I appreciate the comments on this thread, I am going to search for a cannon diving camera case. That way even if I drop in the water it will live. I have heard olympus makes some good cameras too.

I am a beginner but I love dutch oven cooking. I have three dutch oven cook books and always try to cook based on the recipes, but I find it frustrating when the charcoal brickets, burn down and I loose heat, so I break out the shovel and dig into that sweet fire coal bed to get r done, last campout I found the tripod, awesome.