RE: [Philmont]: Personal eating bowls?

Al Thomsom wrote:

   One decision I've never understood is that if you are going to
   take only one, to take the mug and use it for food. It can't
   be licked clean.

Different strokes for different folks I guess (and I'm certainly
"different"!). I took an Olicamp "space saver" cup to Philmont in 2004 and
found it worked well for me. Stainless steel, 16 oz., with a pair of curved
swing-out handles and graduations on the side for measuring. It fits neatly
on the end of a Nalgene bottle or the 1-liter seltzer bottles that I used
instead. I used my spoon to clean the inside down to a thin glaze of food
after the meal, then added a bit of water and worked the glaze into soup.
Not as convenient as ...um, oral cleansing, but it doesn't tend to get food
in my beard like a good bowl-licking does.

My son opted for the Fair Share Mug and loved it...but then he's a hungry
teenager. I thought it was way too big for what I normally ate and took too
much space in the pack.

>Ched Hudson
ASM Troop 994
Fairfax Station, VA
Philmont '67, '04, '06

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Received on Sun Oct 23 17:55:53 2005