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Home Page. Your Camping Trip Details. The Super Cat Alcohol Stove. Background More than a century after the venerable Svea kerosene stove first went into production, one might reasonably wonder why backcountry stoves, like so many other mature products, haven't coalesced around one or two successful design technologies.

The Super Cat Alcohol Stove

Instead, today's backpackers still burn white gas, kerosene, diesel, automotive gas, jet fuel, propane, solid fuel tablets, butane/propane mixes, wood, paraffin, mineral spirits, vegetable oils, methanol, ethanol, and isopropyl alcohol in a huge variety of stove types. So why still so many choices? I guess simply because no one has yet been able to come up with an all-in-one design that can meet the wide range of environmental, fuel availability, weight, cooking, and safety requirements of today's hikers.

Ultralight models, often equipped with piezoelectric lighters, are made by MSR, Primus, Gaz, Snow Peak, Brunton, Optimus, Coleman and others, and are convenient, dependable, quiet, efficient, and though hot burning, can also simmer well. Authors at Google: Andrew Skurka, "Ultimate Hiking Gear & Skills Clinic" This Beef Jerky Recipe Uses Ground Meat Instead of Strips. I like this beef jerky recipe because it makes really good use of all the lean meat trimmings I often have.

This Beef Jerky Recipe Uses Ground Meat Instead of Strips

It's also an especially good recipe to use with meat other than beef. If you are a hunter (or just a lover of game meat), you'll really appreciate being able to make tender deer jerky with this method. Even though I'm a great proponent of using store-ground meat in some of my sausage making, when you're making jerky, you really should grind your own. You want VERY lean meat, and you want it coarsely ground. The only way to be sure of that is to prepare it yourself. As with whole muscle jerky, it really doesn't matter what method you choose to use for drying this jerky. Click Here if you want a Review of Jerky Drying Methods. There are 3 basic techniques you can consider for forming your ground meat into jerky. ExtrudingThe Sheet MethodFreezing and Slicing 1. The jerky extruding machines that I have seen look a lot like large caulking guns.

I'm going to reserve my judgment for now. 2. 6 Instant Meals-On-The-Go. This post is a bit of a departure for me.

6 Instant Meals-On-The-Go

I am normally an only-fresh-ingredients-everything-from-scratch kinda girl. However, I'm married to an avid backpacker who often needs to take food on the trail that requires nothing but boiling water to make a meal. So, I set out to create some instant meals for King-Man that used prepared ingredients that were as healthy as possible.

Flavor, nutrition, and portability were my primary goals. Lightweight for backpacking. Also for meals at the office, in dorm & hotel rooms, and to stock for emergencies. Simply add boiling water, wait a few minutes, and eat. Recipe links. Ready-made freeze dried meals for the trail. View on Amazon: main course Mountain House freeze-dried meals, breakfast Mountain House freeze-dried meals Here's the nutritional breakdown of my 6 instant meals. Departement Techniques du Tourisme d'Aventure - Adventure Tourism Program. Bienvenue sur le site de TTA Techniques du tourisme d'aventure, c'est environ 80 étudiants venant du Québec, des autres provinces canadiennes ainsi que de plusieurs pays.

Departement Techniques du Tourisme d'Aventure - Adventure Tourism Program

C'est aussi une dizaine de professeurs passionnés par leur enseignement. D'où l'idée d'un site intranet pour partager l'information importante nous concernant en tant que programme. Prenez le temps d'explorer ce site, votre site, et de mettre à profit son contenu. Welcome Welcome to the Adventure Tourism Program's student website Here you will find links to important information concerning your studies. 10 ans d'aventure au Cégep de Gaspé Notre grand rassemblement des 10 ans d'aventure TTA/AEC approche et on s'affaire à l'organisation de la fête!! Équipement de plein air > Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC)