Time at home. Hiking, cooking and Wildertools

Mack

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After spending 10 months on the road, I finally got to go home. This is what it looks like out my front door. Why the heck do I leave?
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We went for a hike at Cape Perpetua. It doesn't get much better than this.
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Since I'm soooo out of shape, SWMBO and Darla Boudin (my Dachshund) are always way ahead of me.
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And of course, as many of you know, a trip home must include some quality beer, Laphroaig single malt and my Lodge grill.
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We bought an entire 6lb Filet Mignon which I promptly cut into smaller filets and cooked them every night while I was there.
I got the grill going using the tools in my new Wildertools fire pouch. Unfortunately those pics just didn't work out.
 
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Far too long ago, I was given this incredible fire pouch. This is my first chance to use it. Rick (Magnussen), this is unreal. The work that is put into this tool is incredible. I was able to start fires quickly using the striker, flint and char cloth. I also tried the fresnel lens and had the char cloth glowing in roughly 12 seconds. This stuff works!!!
If you are looking for a fire kit and you want the best you can get, contact Rick!
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As soon as I get some more outdoors time I will get some better pics. I also finally got to play with my "new" canoe. I've had it for a year and finally got to use it. It was a blast going up drift creek with a paddle for once.

Thanks for putting up with me folks. It's great having such a great family out here.
 
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You leave that place? While you are gone, do you need someone to watch your house, by any chance? ;)

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.
 
man I wouldn't leave that place either, love that lodge grill, I'm getting me one, you cook with wood?????
 
TheGame said:
You leave that place? While you are gone, do you need someone to watch your house, by any chance? ;)

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.
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SWMBO and the dog watch the place while I'm gone. I'm an idiot but after buying my Freightliner, I have to be gone to make money.
Thanks for the offer though.:D
 
ratamahatta said:
man I wouldn't leave that place either, love that lodge grill, I'm getting me one, you cook with wood?????
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I use chunk mesquite to grill with. It is fantastic.
 
protourist said:
SWMBO and the dog watch the place while I'm gone. I'm an idiot but after buying my Freightliner, I have to be gone to make money.
Thanks for the offer though.:D
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Well, it was worth the try. ;)

Great looking place :thumbup:
 
I've been stuck in Denver this week waiting for a load to take somewhere:grumpy:. I hate sitting and waiting. Now they are sending me toward Portland. Perhaps I'll get to go home again.:D
 
That is a gorgeous area. Its so lush, my eyes haven't even adjusted to all that green yet :D

Cheers on the Laphroig - good peaty stuff! I'z likey the Islay's!!!
 
kgd said:
That is a gorgeous area. Its so lush, my eyes haven't even adjusted to all that green yet :D

Cheers on the Laphroig - good peaty stuff! I'z likey the Islay's!!!
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Sometimes driving from the beach upriver to my house someone will be burning peat. The smoke will absolutely drive an Islay nut like myself crazy.:eek: It smells just like the Scotch.
 
These horsetail plants always fascinate me. Are they good for anything?
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WILLIAM.M said:
Great Photos

Thanks for posting
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They don't quite measure up to yours but they were the best I could do.
Somehow I didn't get a pic of Darla.:(
The only knife testing I did was to cut the steaks with an old (new to me) Brazilian Chefs knife that sharpened up nicely and cut like a dream and a Mora Allround that Coldwood sent me that I used to trim an English Laurel tree. That Mora is insanely sharp.
 
I''m kind of hurt that Doc Canada hasn't shown up and told me what to do with my Horse Tails.:(
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protourist said:
I''m kind of hurt that Doc Canada hasn't shown up and told me what to do with my Horse Tails.:(
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I'm sorry protourist, I missed them when I was in your thread before. Horsetails (Equisetum spp.) are also called Scouring Rush because of their silica content, they're good for scouring pots. I've used them for fine sanding arrow shafts and the like. I also made a small basket out of them, once, but I don't have any pictures, and I gave the basket away.

Other than that, I don't know of any uses for them.

Just checked Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest, Robin J. Marles (and others), UBC Press, 2000, ISBN# 0-7748-0738-5 and apparently they have some herbal uses.

And since it's you, protourist, I also checked Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia, Nancy J. Turner, UBC Press, 1998, ISBN# 0-7748-0687-7 .

And she says,:

"The rough, silicon-impregnated cell walls of horsetails make them ideal as abrasives for smoothing and polishing surfaces. Most aboriginal people today equate them with sandpaper. Coastal peoples and some interior groups used horsetails to polish wooden objects - such as canoes, feast dishes, boxes, spoons, arrow shafts and points, gambling sticks, and within the last century, knitting needles - although they preferred using dogfish (shark) skin. Coastal groups used all three species, especially Giant Horsetail. Interior peoples used Common Horsetail and Scouring-rush; they did not have access to Giant Horsetail..
Interior Salish peoples used horsetails for polishing and sharpening bone tools and for smoothing and finishing soapstone pipes. For the latter, the Nlaka'pamux sometimes used a mixture of grease and Lodgepole Pine pitch along with the horsetails. The Okanagan coated their pipes with salmon slime, allowed it to harden, then rubbed the surface with the horsetails. The Okanagan used horsetails to polish their fingernails. The Stl'atl'imx used them to sharpen arrowheads.
Some groups also used the black underground rhizomes of horsetails in the decorative imbrication of baskets. The Tlingit of Alaska used Marsh Horsetail rhizomes and probably those of other species to imbricate their fine spruce-root baskets; and the Dena'ina of Alaska used horsetail stems to decorate their birch-bark baskets. The Coast Salish peoples of British Columbia and Washington used the rhizomes and stems of Giant Horsetail for their baskets, and the Sanpoil-Nespelem, a Washington Okanagan group, used Scouring-rush rhizomes to imbricate both baskets and storage bags. The Blackfoot of Alberta crushed the stems to make a light pink dye for colouring Porcupine quills. The Tahltan, and probably other peoples, made whistles out of the stiff hollow stalks of Scouring-rush." (pages 62-63).

Doc
 
Thanks Doc! I knew I could count on you.
 
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