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Plastic soda or water bottles make great inexpensive water bottles. A 2-liter bottle fits nicely into the side pocket of most backpacks.
Cooking over a fire
If you like to cook over an open fire, there is nothing like a small rubber hose to encourage reluctant wood, or coax a small ember to life. Start with a 3" piece of 3/8" aluminum or copper tubing. Slip an 18" piece of rubber tubing over the metal and you are ready for action. No more bending over with your face next to the fire trying to blow at just the right spot. One caution! Don't breathe in through the hose.







Tonto Creek Cayoneering Trip
Date: May 28 - 31
Leader: Kurt Sedler
Tonto Creek is a massive drainage in the heart of the Mogollon Rim country. After heavy rains, it can flow up to 60,000 cubic feet per second (the Grand Canyon's average is 10,000). A stream with this much potential can cut an impressive gorge and Tonto Creek has done just that. Polished bedrock of Granite and Ryolite frames the creek, sometimes constricting it into pools 20 feet deep. You will feel as if you are in another world here. We will start at Hellsgate Trail #37; take it to the confluence of Tonto & Haigler creeks. Heading downstream in the creek bed. We will be wet for the next 17 miles; swim a MINIMUM of 11 pools.





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