rangewalker
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Post by rangewalker on Jul 12, 2020 18:56:14 GMT -8
Post a photo of your current or ancient mugs: from the grasping for content directorate. GSI: current mainstay. The new models picked up some grams with straps and cuter covers. The neoprene sleeve makes the thing a deceptively efficient thermal cover. and I think Lexan is a better thermal material for heat retention. I have no facts or data. The old guy: A modified Aladdin I bought from the LNT.org store when they first launched. Seven principles on the other side still visible. The AADD rig for lid retention was inspired by a long ago college outdoor leader (1972) that had fashioned something similar. The man was at the time a big wall climber and everything had a loop to clip in from boots to spoons. Currently resides in the car camping tub.
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Post by gabby on Jul 12, 2020 19:12:44 GMT -8
from the grasping for content directorate I like it. It's silly slow around here of late, so I'll have to go dig through the archival shelving in the back of the closet and line 'em up for a photo. I don't have all of 'em, but I know there's at least 1 Sierra cup in there. Or maybe it's in the garage ...
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 12, 2020 20:44:54 GMT -8
For about 4 years I used a plastic give-away beer glass (you know the kind--like they hand out at the ball park on "free beer mug day") as a backpacking cup. It handled the heat fine, and weighed almost nothing. Alas, eventually the hard life caught up to it. Since then, I'm on the hunt for a replacement. Here's the thing: it weighed 1 oz. Where can I find a 16-oz cup that weighs only 1 oz and is good for drinking coffee? For single-night trips, I've just been taking a paper coffee cup from the coffee shop. You can get a couple of extra uses out of one of those. But that's obviously not going to work for a week-long trip. Here's the late lamented cup with our folding bowls and spoons.
And here it is in action, holding soup in this case (probably well-seasoned with mosquitoes). I also see one of those disposable paper cups--this may have been the first trip I used the UL mug and I wasn't confident.
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Post by desert dweller on Jul 12, 2020 20:45:03 GMT -8
I'm not sure when Steve, aka bp2go, was giving these out when he moderated for Backpacker Magazine. Maybe it was 1999 or 2000. And, I don't remember what we had to do or say to get a mug. It's still the one that goes on every trip.
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Post by zeke on Jul 13, 2020 3:11:21 GMT -8
I got this in 1999 on a float in the Canyon. Since I don't drink hot drinks except when spending a great deal of time in the snow, it hasn't seen the field at all. Can't remember the last time I used it. It seems like I'll be getting another one in Aug, with a different paddling company. If anyone wants one...
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Post by Coolkat on Jul 13, 2020 5:20:45 GMT -8
I really enjoy these kinds of threads but alas I'm feeling left out because I don't have a mug that I take on hikes.
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rangewalker
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Post by rangewalker on Jul 13, 2020 7:45:35 GMT -8
but alas I'm feeling left out because I don't have a mug that I take on hikes. Dude, a cup and spoon are primary among the essentials. How else can you accept free food and drink from others? The trail only provides for the prepared.
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Post by Coolkat on Jul 13, 2020 10:31:48 GMT -8
Dude, a cup and spoon are primary among the essentials. How else can you accept free food and drink from others? The reason why I don't have a mug is primarily because I'm not into hot drinks. Just water for me and for that I have my nalgenes. I do have very small bowl in my cook system that I suppose might also be used as a "mug".
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jul 13, 2020 10:57:17 GMT -8
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Post by Lamebeaver on Jul 15, 2020 8:55:13 GMT -8
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Post by dayhiker on Jul 17, 2020 20:04:40 GMT -8
I don't cook except ski camping, or fiddling with wood stove, or once I took this on a cold Grand Canyon trip. In the later case this pot converted into a cup saved weight and space just remember to remove sleeve when cooking mine does not look so good anymore: I do have a spread sheet on mugs and thermoses, I would say drink quickly with most mugs, just about any insulation will do given weaknesses on the lid etc. I like the camel forge (no longer made and the Klean cup for home (vacuum insulated but wide top with hole in it defeat that for the most part, still cool to hold and I just like it)
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Post by BigLoad on Jul 18, 2020 11:36:59 GMT -8
The red cup is for oatmeal and the folding cup gets coffee. I've had the red one since '84 and the blue since about '04.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 18, 2020 12:11:25 GMT -8
The red cup is for oatmeal and the folding cup gets coffee. I've had the red one since '84 and the blue since about '04. Those are lovely, but neither is large enough for the intended use :D
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 18, 2020 12:14:02 GMT -8
Zeke found me a bunch of beer cups to replace my late lamented cup. Water glass shown for scale. 16 oz right to the top. I haven’t checked the fit inside my pot, but that may all change, anyway, as I set up a solo kit (though for the next trip or two, I will be sharing with 1 or 2 people).
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Post by BigLoad on Jul 18, 2020 12:36:49 GMT -8
Those are lovely, but neither is large enough for the intended use :D Yeah, I have to do two fillings each.
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