Archive for April, 2010

Weekend Wrap-up: End of April Edition

Apr 28

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To start off with, I have a couple articles I need to push out this week. I am actually a couple weeks behind in finishing up a Review as well as another food item recipe.

Last Sunday, I came back from Hood River to a dead desktop computer. So last weeks article was written on my laptop, and I decided to hold off until I got my main desktop fixed again.

Luckily for me, I keep complete weekly backups of my computers (Daily of my webserver), which allows me to recover from the event of a disaster.

However, it is still a long process.

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Weekend Wrap-Up: Around the Corner Edition

Apr 20

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Well, it is now the final stretch for this trip. Less than 2 months to go, and it still seems like I have a lot to get done.

I almost feel like I should start packing now!

One of the major items I need is to either purchase heavy duty dry compression sacks, or make my own. I’ve been looking at the make my own route.

The Sea 2 Summit dry sacks I purchased from REI lasted 2 camping weekends. They are just not meant to rest on a pannier strapped down on a KLR with all of the vibrations.

The 2nd big item I need to finish up is my food. I am in the final stretch with that. I have enough recipes for the trip, it is just taking the time to order, and repackage everything.

I will also need to start dehydrating fruit and make some jerky pretty soon.

And last is I should start mapping out possible camping locations.

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Tags: Arctic Expedition 2010, Dawson City, Dust to Dawson, Inuvik, Seattle

Do It Yourself: Adventure Food – Scrambled Eggs *

Apr 16

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Whole Egg Powder - Do not inhale

I realize that writing this is one of those “duh” articles, mainly because powdered eggs has been a staple of emergency preparation as well as trail-goers for several years.

I figured however, I may as well write about it! So this will be a quick article.

To start off with, I titled this “Scrambled Eggs *”, to denote that it really can be made with anything. I am just doing a simple scramble with sausage crumbles, which is what I will focus the most of the preparation on.

With regular powdered eggs. Prep time is fast and simple. I used Healthy Harvest’s whole egg powder for my eggs, and it calls for 2 Tbsp of egg powder mixed with 3 Tbsp of water to = 1 large egg.

It really is as simple as mixing and cooking.

I do, however have some observations once you start adding substance to it.

First off, I added sausage to mine. Just plain dehydrated pork sausage.

As with most dehydrated and freeze dried foods, there is a “reconstitute” time you should let it sit in liquid. Healthy Harvest’s directions state that 5 minutes is enough time for the sausage. Under my own tests, and making this meal twice now using the sausage, I can honestly say that 5 minutes is not long enough.

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Tags: camp food, camping food, Motorcycle Camping, motorcycle camping food, Powdered Egg, trail food

Do It Yourself: Adventure Food – Biscuits and Gravy

Apr 13

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Biscuits and Gravy

Anyone who has been following my blog now for awhile, understands that one of the vows I made before I take my upcoming trip to the Arctic, was that I would create my own Biscuits and Gravy Recipe.

It is easy to sit down, with fresh ingredients, fry up some sausage, add some flour, milk and spice to taste. I found out it is another thing to try and make it into a dry, moisture-free, light weight, and simple to make packaged meal.

There was a lot of hurdles along the way that I had to get over along the way, taking the time to research or think up a solution, test it out, apply it, try again, and hope for a positive outcome.

As previously mentioned in my article “Do It Yourself: Adventure Food – Poor Man’s Chicken and Dumplings“, I had originally intended that meal to try an analog for making my biscuits.

After a successful experiment using Jiffy Buttermilk Biscuit Mix to drop into the soup directly as dumplings, and make a meal with flaky biscuits in about 15 minutes, I later tested a couple weeks later the application in the field. Trying out a second idea I had for mixing the biscuit dough while on the move. A simple solution of a plastic bag, and some water, and “Massaging” the dough until ready to drop spoonfuls of it into the simmering soup.

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Tags: biscuits and gravy, camp food, camping food, hiking food, Instant Whole Milk, Motorcycle Camping, motorcycle camping food, Nestle Nido, trail food

Reminder: Facebook and Twitter Pages!

Apr 9

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Sometimes there are things that I do not write up as articles, or I am in the process of working on for a future article that gets posted up on Facebook and Twitter.

Sneak Peaks, Works in Progress, and other ramblings can be found at http://facebook.com/micsadventure and http://twitter.com/micsadventure.

Become and Fan and interact with myself and other fans!

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Apr 8

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When I had originally planned this weeks articles this last weekend, I had made plans to write about my new BelStaff Jacket and Pants, to write about my new top box and RotoPax and my new TCX Infinity Gore-Tex boots.

I had planned to write some positive’s, some negatives, and update a couple of my “Rider Review” articles.

Instead, I’m going to take a moment, and write about something else that has been on my mind since Sunday.

While I may have mentioned it once or twice in the past, another passion of mine that I enjoy in the world of Motorcycle’s is Road Racing.

I’m not just talking about watching it, I mean I enjoy doing it.

I have enjoyed competition motor sports since I was a youngen, and I still enjoy it. I enjoy the adrenaline rush one gets when the light goes out, and the madness that follows. It’s an insanity that keeps a rare breed of us sane.

I haven’t spoke a whole lot about it this year, mainly because I had to make the decision early on if I was going to compete this year, or if I was going to take all of my vacation days off instead to do a trip I have been planning for several years.

I chose the trip.

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Tags: April 4 2010, Claud Jinks, WMRRA