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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.







LaBarge Canyon/Charlebois Spring Backpack, Dec. 13-14 (Q4)
Date: December 13-14, 2003 View Photos
Leader: Steve Desrochers
Phone: 480-926-7939
Length: 16 miles +/- R/T
Rating: Moderate/Difficult

This trip started out on a cool December morning at Canyon lake. As we hiked up out of canyon lake, a small group split off to head down to bushwack up the canyon, the rest continued on up where some spectacular views awaited us. After going down, we meet up at the trail junction for a break. We continued on and stopped later for lunch, then continued onto LaBarge Canyon where we made camp. We took a short hike up to Charlebois Spring for water, then some of us went to see the Hyroglyphs, led by Kurt. After a pleasant, cool evening around the campfire with some playing cards, we headed out Sunday morning back to our vehicles at the First Water trailhead, following the Dutchman trail, taking a shortcut on the Bull Pass trail, then rejoining the Dutchman for the remainder of the hike.





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