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MEXICOWANDERER
Apr 30, 2019Explorer
Now that I m old and do not want to fuss with ANYTHING ANY MORE I stay in hotels and ring down for room service.
Horsepacking in comfort meant making enclosed kitchens, brine freezing, burlap floor canvas enclosed deer hanging pulleys for raising solar shower bags.
While thunderstorms roared hail and rain, I would sit in the dining area and read, then take a long hot shower. Then prepare a gourmet salad and golden trout main meal with asparagus with hollandaise sauce, appropriate wine, corn on the cob and finish with apple cobbler sometime ice cream. Traditional backpackers would pass by reeking of body odor and near starvation from choking down dehydrated squirrel droppings from a pouch.
So when someone wants to drag a 5th Ave penthouse behind them then demand city living in the sticks I do not have a tear to shed on them.
It takes WORK to learn how to do this stuff right. Whether laden with air conditioning and a 55" flat screen and vibrating massage chair, or setting up a one month pack mule string camp it takes using the noodle or settling for a dude ranch.
One hot day 22 miles in, I was slurping an iced drink and as I passed a couple of beleaguered purists they remarked "If that's snow you're gonna get sick". "Snow?" I replied. "No it's real ice". They raised their eyes in skepticism. "From a little store right over that ridge". The store was my camp and the ice was a product of brine freezing spring water.
After all, All's I want is cake and eat it too"
Horsepacking in comfort meant making enclosed kitchens, brine freezing, burlap floor canvas enclosed deer hanging pulleys for raising solar shower bags.
While thunderstorms roared hail and rain, I would sit in the dining area and read, then take a long hot shower. Then prepare a gourmet salad and golden trout main meal with asparagus with hollandaise sauce, appropriate wine, corn on the cob and finish with apple cobbler sometime ice cream. Traditional backpackers would pass by reeking of body odor and near starvation from choking down dehydrated squirrel droppings from a pouch.
So when someone wants to drag a 5th Ave penthouse behind them then demand city living in the sticks I do not have a tear to shed on them.
It takes WORK to learn how to do this stuff right. Whether laden with air conditioning and a 55" flat screen and vibrating massage chair, or setting up a one month pack mule string camp it takes using the noodle or settling for a dude ranch.
One hot day 22 miles in, I was slurping an iced drink and as I passed a couple of beleaguered purists they remarked "If that's snow you're gonna get sick". "Snow?" I replied. "No it's real ice". They raised their eyes in skepticism. "From a little store right over that ridge". The store was my camp and the ice was a product of brine freezing spring water.
After all, All's I want is cake and eat it too"
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