View Full Version : VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC... Coffee at Tucks....
Some of my friends use the coffee bags.... Which I will use in a pinch... A jolt is a jolt....
I hang a percolator off the back of my pack...
I gotta have good coffee... I like to mix it with hot chocolate(w/ marshmellows)and Kaluha... I start making coffee while I'm still in my sleeping bag...
If my friend 2Turn comes - he brings a Freedom Press(french press)...
I am a snob about beer and coffee......
elwood
08-26-2003, 09:30 AM
DMC, I'm with you. I need coffee. That's the second thing I do in the morning after business. Although I usually bring the bags just for weight considerations. Good thing you'll be there next time, I'll bring a battery operated grinder and some nice beans...
Actually it's the opposite for me...
Coffee>Business>more Coffee>Breakfast>Hike>Climb>Ride>Coffee
Castlerock
08-26-2003, 09:52 AM
Insulated french Press....The only way to go!
I generally use a thermous to carry up the morning press. But, since we will have grillage, I'll be toting my GSI backpacker espresso maker for a tasty fresh dopio!
Castlerock:
Insulated french Press....The only way to go! Insulated? Cool..
It's either Freedom Press of Percolator for a really good cup...
The Espresso maker sounds good too! Thats a nice blast of JAVA!!!
I even bring a can of condensed milk for cream... And cooking...
elwood
08-26-2003, 10:07 AM
DMC, I'm not much of a coffe sweetner kind of guy, so you can keep the hot chocolate, but definitely pass the kahlua!!!
Mumster
08-26-2003, 10:08 AM
Wake up to autotimed coffee -> dress -> check for urgent work issues -> recaffeinate while goofing off -> laugh -> attack the workday.
I don't know what I'll do at :tucks: , if the coffee doesn't make itself... :confused: Fortunately, I have all winter to work on it.
Jolly J
08-26-2003, 10:17 AM
I love coffee. Unfortunately ever since I had food poisoning (7 year ago)(not coffee related) everytime I drink coffee I spend a considerable amount of time in the :outhouse: I can sneak in the odd cup once in a while but not like I used to. I'll drink tea if I don't think my belly is going to hold up.
surfy
08-26-2003, 10:22 AM
Easier to skip the coffee and go straight to :beermug:
Jolly J
08-26-2003, 10:25 AM
I love sunday morning beer for breakfast. I always try to save a couple from Saturday night.
I save my beer for a reward...
Nothing like cracking open a beer at the top of the Headwall... People look at you like your insane... They are just barely hanging on and afraid... And me and my crew are toasting life...
Of course my first couple of times at TUX I was pretty afraid as well...
ahhhh... sweet reward...
elwood
08-26-2003, 10:30 AM
Jolly J:
I love sunday morning beer for breakfast. I always try to save a couple from Saturday night. I love beer for breakfast, but it just doesn't kickstart the plumbing like coffee...
RaceFace Rider
08-26-2003, 11:09 AM
This one almost makes itself...
Have some filtered water ready to go for when you wake up. Keep a container with some powdered Twinlab "Ripped Fuel" and stir up a powerful ephedra-based concoction. That will get you going in the morning, or any time for that matter. Of course there is the ongoing controversy over ephedra, so take that with a grain of salt. I used to use it as a pre-ski/board drink. It get's the plumbing going just like coffee, but unlike just caffeine, you could actually feel it warming your muscles up and priming them with abnormal volumes of blood. Of course after reading some of the horror stories about the stuff, I decided to stop usingit just in case, but I can definitely say that I've never felt that jacked that early in the morning either. Now I do coffee, but I don't require it. When I'm camping and it is cold, I ALWAYS require it....
Mumster:
Wake up to autotimed coffee -> dress -> check for urgent work issues -> recaffeinate while goofing off -> laugh -> attack the workday.
I don't know what I'll do at :tucks: , if the coffee doesn't make itself... :confused: Fortunately, I have all winter to work on it.
Thas hardcore!!!!
Cafene is the limit of my stimulants...
If I go any higher on the scale... I get all freaked out... I freak out on sinus pills...
I need things to calm me... Except my morning coffee...
elwood
08-26-2003, 11:21 AM
I always liked the ephedra buzz, but scary that so many athletes have keeled over do to overheating while using the stuff... Ephedra does zip you right up there though. No need for coffee if you take that stuff...
Mumster
08-26-2003, 11:27 AM
I'm partial to the global AM coffee experience - the smell, taste, warmth, etc.
Mumster:
I'm partial to the global AM coffee experience - the smell, taste, warmth, etc. (From Southpark)
Tweek Coffee.... Like a cool Mountain morning sunrise...
Remind me to tell you how TOUGH it was to explain to the waiter in Argentina that I wanted coffee "to go" sometime... They had no idea what it was to drink coffee any other place than sitting down and relaxing... Wild...
Skilasnow
08-26-2003, 12:21 PM
DMC:
Mumster:
I'm partial to the global AM coffee experience - the smell, taste, warmth, etc. (From Southpark)
Tweek Coffee.... Like a cool Mountain morning sunrise...
Remind me to tell you how TOUGH it was to explain to the waiter in Argentina that I wanted coffee "to go" sometime... They had no idea what it was to drink coffee any other place than sitting down and relaxing... Wild... I had that problem too, abd in most cases they had no container, so I finally learned to bring my own cup! German train stations seem to be the only place outside the US that I've been where you can travel with your Joe, Who, by the way, my friend and I determined last year, is the Deity of Snow Fall. So keep drinking your Joe and we should have a good snow year
the morning we left for Las Lenas from BA
We're standing by the bus asking the waiter to bring us coffee "to go"
And the dude comes out with a tray with cups and saucers... It was pretty freaking funny...
That was a brutal travel day... If I remember correctly...
elwood
08-26-2003, 12:26 PM
In Japan, you can't really find coffee to go...Unless you buy it in a can out of the vending machine (hot or cold). Although those vending machines also serve beer, so I wasn't drinking too much coffee...
I'm not very good at making coffee. I always bring someone whose addiction is stronger than mine and sponge. I reciprocate with bacon.
Nothing like the smell of a lean-to full of bacon and coffee in the morning... smells like VICTORY.
Jolly J
08-26-2003, 12:34 PM
Some guys I work with opened and after hours bar in their house and bought a coke machine for $750 and filled it with cans of beer. They charged 5 bucks a can and paid for the machine in the first night of business.
Skilasnow
08-26-2003, 12:38 PM
Jolly J:
Some guys I work with opened and after hours bar in their house and bought a coke machine for $750 and filled it with cans of beer. They charged 5 bucks a can and paid for the machine in the first night of business. I bet you could charge ten at HoJos. All proceeds, after expenses, go to the Volunteer Patrol
skicdave
08-26-2003, 12:39 PM
Jolly J:
Some guys I work with opened and after hours bar in their house and bought a coke machine for $750 and filled it with cans of beer. They charged 5 bucks a can and paid for the machine in the first night of business. "Thinks go better with coke"... guess the beer in the coked machine tasted $4 better than regular $1 regular beer.
Jolly J
08-26-2003, 12:40 PM
Probably have to use the snow cat to haul it up.
skicdave
08-26-2003, 12:56 PM
"Beeeeeeerrrrrrr!"
http://timefortuckerman.com/gifs/headwallbeermachine.jpg
skicdave
08-26-2003, 01:24 PM
Plus a machine at Hermit Lake...
http://timefortuckerman.com/gifs/beermachinetohermitlake1.jpg
Jolly J
08-26-2003, 01:28 PM
Probably need some sort of Solar power thingy...
I love the scale of the people(you?)
If I was that size - I'd never hit my head on the rafters of the shelter... Which I inevitably do every time I stay there...
skicdave
08-26-2003, 01:34 PM
Sheesh...
http://timefortuckerman.com/gifs/beermachinetohermitlake3.jpg
Solar Panels...
COOL!
A place to plug in a heater and a TV...
NH_tele
08-26-2003, 01:49 PM
I've never taken coffee hiking, just use the famous instant hot chocolate instead... However, on the way up it's a must. I stop at the New Hampton Dunkin Donuts before every trip!
NH_tele:
I've never taken coffee hiking, just use the famous instant hot chocolate instead... However, on the way up it's a must. Wake up with a hangover in the shelter sometime... Which I have... After an evening of partying on the Hojos Deck...
You'll be praying for coffee...
elwood
08-26-2003, 01:56 PM
Yeah a night of hard partying at hojo's and you definitely need coffee and wake and bake... Oh yeah...
The thing about partying at Hojos is everyone's passing around their own concoctions... I sample way too much different alochol... As well as puff down a big cigar...
Pretty decadent to a back country experience... :)
Mumster
08-27-2003, 11:56 AM
Why wouldn't a thermos do for coffee for overnight :shelters: ? You could cheat and stop at Starbucks (or equivalent) on the way to :mtwashington: ?
A thermos is way too heavy...
I usually go up for a 2 or 3 nights..
I'd drain that thing by the first afternoon...
Skilasnow
08-27-2003, 12:14 PM
DMC:
by some do it yourself Tea bags and use them to make your own coffee bags with your favorite home ground beans.
Even better a 420 related DYI coffee bag
DYI reusable Tea bag (http://www.hemptree.com/baguse.htm)
elwood
08-27-2003, 12:15 PM
Yeah, liquid creates too much weight. The less water and coffee and other beverages you can bring, the more beer you can pack up. Need...beer...
No TV and no Beer make homer go something something...
DRPHIDDLEPHOS
08-27-2003, 04:53 PM
a kegerator on tucks!!!!!!!!!! brilliant!!! coffee, woosies.......i live on hydroxycut and rock stars!!! BP throught the roof! i could probably get into guiness world records for most elevated heart rate without arrest! :disinfo: you are going to kill yourself with that sh#t! we all die someday, i pray for a heart attack!
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