Freepaddling in the Ten Thousand Island: Part Two
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Wind Against Current
By Johna Till Johnson
The “Everything Tree” on Panther Key
In the bright light of full morning, I sat down to make coffee and breakfast… and had a rude shock. The Jetboil, which had worked perfectly well last night (and in pre-trip tests), now would no longer start.
This wasn’t catastrophic, but it was somewhat serious. You can start a Jetboil with a match.. but I’d brought just a handful of stormproof matches with me. And I only had freezedried food, which required hot water to cook. So I’d either have to cut short my trip, or curtail my eating—neither of which seemed ideal.
Normally I’d have been panicky. Well, actually, normally we would have fallen back on Vlad’s rickety stove, which he always packed even after we converted to the Jetboil. But there was no longer a “we”, and Vlad’s stove was somewhere back in New York. So that…
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