[pct-l] Water Tricks

[jape at nethere.com (Eckert)]

Be careful with the Lifesavers, if you're storing your food in a bear 
cannister.  I use the Bear Vault, and it's air-tite enough that a 
handfull of individally wrapped wintergreen flavored Lifesavers spread 
their odor to my jerky, pita bread, and gorp.  To this day I can't eat 
that flavor candy.  <g>

Hiker97@aol.com wrote:

>Hard Candy and Water Tricks: I had some large individually wrapped  Life 
>Savers and should have experimented with those.  I like them better  than Jolly 
>Rogers candy, because they are not so sweet.  I guess I was  thinking they would 
>make me more thirsty.  I always start hiking before  sunrise because of the 
>sun and heat.  My whole hiking setup is  anti-heat.
> 
>Thanks for the wonderful ideas.  Really good stuff.
> 
>Cheers, Switchback
>Trail Bum & Camp Slouch
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