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InstaGrill: The Art of Spontaneous Grilling
We were out in the woods this weekend last, playing hobo and such, and just enjoying the pleasures of a lovely spring day afield. The sun was warm, but the lakes and ponds still frozen, and patches of snow tarried in the shadows. We hiked along the wooded trails, kicking up leaves from last autumn, and smelling the earth unwrap itself after a long winter's hiatus. A vintage spring day in Minnesota. The kind we wait for, and pine for. The sort we hold out hope for, that once winter has had its way with us, that it might bequeath us such climatic spoils. And it did. And what better thing to do in all the world on such a day, than to make a camp in the woods, and cook some good food there.
Enter the InstaGrill
Now I'm a tinkerer. My father is a tinkerer. My brothers are tinkerers. Tinkering, you might say, is in my blood. And so when I get to test out another man's brain thrust, I feel honored. I can appreciate the engineering, the thought, and the time that went in to it. Such was the case this last trip afield, as we tested out the InstaGrill. A cool, little, highly portable BBQ grill sent to us by a fellow tinkerer, named Jonathan, down in Texas.
InstaGrill. That's what he's calling it as of now. It's an idea he had for easy, spontaneous, low-key grilling. He sent us a prototype so we could get a better idea how it works, and maybe share it with you guys. Here is his website also, if you want more details. www.myinstagrill.com. It's a pretty nifty little rig, and if you don't mind, we'll give you the nickel tour ourselves.
It's pretty clever at first blush. As you can see, it's a charcoal grill at its core. That's what it runs on. You fill it half way up or so like you would a charcoal chimney, and light it from below with crumpled up newspaper or like we did in this case, with a fire starter cube. She lit right up in tremendous fashion, thanks to the built-in chimney effect. In all my years of using portable grills, I can honestly say, this is the best lighting grill we've ever used. No lighter fluid needed. It lights like a charcoal chimney, because, well, it is! This is probably our favorite feature of the grill. But anyways, onto the fun part!
When the coals reach maturity, or grayed over, (about 10 minutes) you simply unlatch the side and open it up. Sort of like them Murphy Beds that fold up into the wall, if you're familiar with those. Yet another clever idea! Then you rake the coals about a bit to suit your fancy, and install the grate as seen in the photo.
As seen above, you can set the grate to three different levels. We liked that feature too!
We found the grill to be just big enough to meet the needs of about two people, least wise for breakfast out in the hinter regions. The grate size is roughly 10 inches by 10 inches. Large enough for four burgers or two steaks. The other dimensions of the grill are 5″D x 10″W x 12″ H. It weighs about 5 pounds. We found it very portable, and simple to set up and easy to use. No complaints!
Granted it was designed for more traditional grilling fare than corned beef hash and eggs over-easy, but alas when your bush, you work with what you've got. Regardless, it was a lot of fun cooking with it. The husky handle at the back made it effortless to transport or move it, even when it was lit, should you ever want to do such things. And to extinguish the coals, you simply close it back up and pour some water on the fire. Disperse in the trash at your nearest convenience.
Overall, it was really a joy to cook on. A well thought-out, and articulate little grilling rig. We liked it's compactness, and portability, and absolutely loved how it started up a batch of charcoal. We can see it being useful for things like: camping, or tailgating, or even just out on your deck. It's low key enough, it won't draw much attention, and finally, you'll get a proper meal cooked over a beautiful bed of coals. Such as grilling was always meant to be.
So here's the other part of the story. If you want to buy one, you're going to have to get in line and wait a while. This is a prototype, you see. The ultimate fit & finished product does not exist yet. That's why the prototype was sent to us, to help Jonathan garner a little exposure. He has also set up a KICKSTARTER Campaign, here, and when and if it reaches it's goal, he will then go into production with these grills. So if you think it's a worthy endeavor, and want to help him get his business going, not to mention secure yourself one of his grills later on down the road, head over to his kickstarter page and help a tinkerer out!
Kickstarter Link
In the Waning Light: When Steak and Potatoes Are More Than Enough
Such is light's brief serenade for the sun which has dipped below the roof tops now, at an hour profoundly prior from which the supper bell tolls. The cool wind rustles up the neighborhood streets and across the backyards freshly mulched and pampered and smelling of a sleepy earth. The old pond dapples in the moonlight as the mallards and stately drakes cavort in it's still, liquid waters. All the leaves have all fallen now, once resplendent and grand, and the geese are in constant formation it seems, bugging out for the promised land, of…well, I don't know where the geese go actually. Probably to you guys down in Florida, I suppose. Texas too.
It's November in Minnesota. Outdoor life is shutting down. Most folk have wheeled their BBQ's inside for the winter now. We Patrons of the Pit, however, and Comrades of the Coals, well, we stoically march onward still, trimming our collars to the tempest of night, and manning our pits in stalwart fashion, for to bandy some rather keen moments still, in the waning, pale moon light.
On the pit tonight, probably the first head chiseled on to my personal Mount Rushmore of Things You Can Grill…Steak! A nice big one for me, and a slightly smaller one for the little lady. It always amazes me, as the resident grill jockey that I am, from all the umpteen dozens if not hundreds of recipes I've tried over the years, my favorite things to grill still are usually of the most simpleton in kind. For example, I enjoy a good steak, like this, lightly seasoned in just garlic and onion salt, as much as I enjoy, say, an elaborate, 12-hour, pecan smoked brisket flat, or even a rack of spare ribs perfectly executed to the nearest square inch. These things are quite lovely, and they are satisfying to do. But there's also just something pleasantly perfect about a simple fare of meat and potatoes. About steak on the grill. And more over, there is a magic in grilling it there, amid a November night.
I flipped the steaks, tongs in hand, and listened to them sizzle on the hot cast iron grate. Orange flames licked up from below, searing the beef, as I pulled my patio chair up aside the old kettle grill. I sat there with the lid off watching the steaks cook, and enjoying the flicker of the flame and the radiant heat bellowing out of the Weber's steely bosom. It felt warm on my face, as I looked up and noted how the moonbeams dropped like angel kisses through the pit-side spruce trees. This was nice, I thought. Much better than most people think when they think of November grilling. I was not cold. Nor did the darkness matter. In point of fact, the darkness just seem to make the fire all the better. Something poignant and lovely to bandy by. And so by fire and by moonlight I sailed the culinary seas there, however briefly to the shores of edible succulence from whence I've longed. It didn't take much effort either. Steaks are like that. And I already had the potatoes done in the kitchen, so… I plated up the spoils, turned heel as any man would, and sidled inside for the night.
After sliding the patio door shut, and locking it, I took another glance out at the grill, like pit keepers do. There it sat in the dark, quietly puffing away as if it didn't have a care in the world. No, it didn't mind doing its duty in November. In fact, it was just doing what it was born to do. And for a while at least, come to think of it, so was I. Amen.
Meat and potatoes. Some days I tell you, people, it's all you need. Well, and a piece of coconut cream pie for dessert wouldn't hurt none either.
A Study in Flame: Solo Stove Titan Review and Giveaway!
*To the readership. This is a rare event on PotP. Don't miss your chance to enter to win a free Solo Stove Titan in our first ever giveaway. All you need to do is leave a comment below, then go to this link, Titan Giveaway – Patrons of the Pit, and it will guide you from there. Another way you can enter the giveaway is to like our Facebook page, and again, just go through the link above, and it will direct you to Facebook from there. If you can't do either of those, an Email address will enter you into the contest also. Regardless, use the link if you want to participate in the giveaway. Think of the link as a conduit for getting things done. The widget needs the attention so it can keep track of who has entered the giveaway. Oh, and if you have previously liked our Facebook page, sorry, those likes do not count in this giveaway. Anyways, now let's get on with this review already!
Not too long ago, last week in point of fact, I was backpacking through the hinter regions of northern Minnesota. Was on one of my usual haunts there, afoot with a pack on my back, enjoying some of the swiftly vanishing perks of wilderness travel. Solitude. Clean rushing rivers. Pure air in which to breathe, ushered on a breeze that which murmurs like poetry through the long-standing pines. It was October, and the tamarack along the way were turning golden there, kissed in an autumnal sunbeam. It was just plain lovely. So much so and in fact, it rather demanded a spot of tea.
Solo Stove Titan – Larger Version of Original Solo Stove. Lightweight Wood Burning Stove. Compact Kit for Backpacking, Camping, Survival. Burns Twigs – No Batteries or Liquid Fuel Canisters Needed.
Enter The Titan
I had along a new piece of gear this hike, one sponsored to us by the kindly folks at Solo Stove. It's a backpacking stove, good for car camping too, that runs completely off wood, or what ever other forest debris, or bio fuel, you might find laying about. It's pretty slick. And I don't think I have ever had a more poetic, scientifically satisfying, trail-side cup of tea in my life, than I had with this ingeniously designed cooker. The Solo Stove Titan. The glory is in the flame. So grab yourself a cup of tea likewise, and let's disect this thing, shall we.
Natural Convection Inverted Down Gas Gasifer
Here's how it works. You build your fire on the nichrome wire grate down in the stove. Air comes in through the holes at the bottom of the stove, feeding oxygen to the fire there. With me so far? Simple enough. Here is where it gets interesting tho. The stove is double walled, and so warm air also travels upwards, heating up as it goes, between in the inner wall and the outer one. Once it reaches the top of the stove, it is expelled through another set of slightly smaller holes there. The oxygen coming out these holes, as mentioned, has been preheated in its ascent, and when it dumps back into the firebox, a literal secondary combustion occurs. And that, my friends, is the magic of the Solo Stove.
So What Does It Mean?
What it means is efficiency. This additional act of combustion assists the fire in burning more complete, they say. In point of fact, when the fire is going at full tilt, there is very little smoke produced at all, because it is so efficient. In theory, the stove will cook the smoke right out of the wood. Least wise that's what the flame wizards at Solo Stove say. The efficient burn also means you will use less wood to cook with, when compared to cooking over an open camp fire. Not only that, when the fuel burns out, there is nothing but a fine, powdery ash remaining. No glowing embers to deal with, courtesy of that efficient burn. Needless to say, I was intrigued. So let's get after that cup of tea, shall we.
It comes with a nicely crafted pot support, that nests inside the stove for travel. Anyways, I had a fire quickly kindled in its steel bosom, and set my old, blackened kettle on to boil. Enough for two cups of tea, I should wager. I sat back and watched the river gurgle by and admired this piece of cooking technology before me. Occasionally I fed it a small twig or stick to keep it happy. As the fire established, I must say, I was smitten by the results.
Solo Stove Titan – Larger Version of Original Solo Stove. Lightweight Wood Burning Stove. Compact Kit for Backpacking, Camping, Survival. Burns Twigs – No Batteries or Liquid Fuel Canisters Needed.
It didn't take the fire long at all to stabilize, and the initial plumes of smoke on start-up, to dissolve into distant memories. There is an opening on the pot support, or cooking ring, as you can see, in which to further feed the fire as needed. We had to do a little of that. I'd wager the amount of wood used for two cups of water was something like two large handful's of sticks broken into finger length pieces. Thicker hardwoods, of course, burn better and longer than the soft balsam fir sticks that I used, but I had about one million square acres of forest and wood to play with, so it didn't really matter. That's another joy of a wood burning backpacking stove, I discovered. You will never run out of fuel. Leastwise in the north woods of Minnesota, you sure won't.
After a fashion, I also noticed the secondary combustion thing kicking in. It actually worked! Of course I failed to capture it in a photo for you, but if you were to peer down into the fire chamber a little more, you would see the fire seemingly coming out of that higher set of holes that we talked about earlier. Indeed, the main fire down on the grate was blazing away, but it was also shooting out of the holes up near the top. And the smoke was curiously absent, just like they said. I gotta say, I was impressed. Even my wife, who is not often impressed by scientific stuff, was suitably awed. We were sipping tea in no time, enjoying the warmth of a hot mug in our hands, and further admiring this little stove .
Later on in camp, we fired it up again.
The inner pyromaniac in me couldn't get enough play time with this stove. I discovered its engineering went other ways too. Subtle ways. For example, I discovered that even when the stove is fiercely hot, that I could still move it around if I had to by gripping it below the lowest set of holes. It wasn't exactly cool down there, but not hot enough either that you couldn't hang onto it for a while if you had to move it for some reason. The reason that impressed us was because if it's not hot down there, then that means you could set it on a picnic table, perhaps, and not have to worry about burning a nice 5.1 inch circle into your table top. Always a nice thing.
Here are some specs on the Solo Stove Titan, if you're curious
Specs for the Sole Stove TitanPacked size: Height 5.6 inches, Width 5.1 inchesAssembled size: Height 7.9 inches, Width 5.1 inchesWeight: 16.5 ozMaterials: 304 stainless steel, nichrome wireFuel: sticks, twigs, pine cones and other biomassBoil time: 4-6 mins (32 fl oz of water)To read more on the Solo Stove Titan, do check out their website at:
Bonus Thoughts
And finally, the part you've been waiting for. As mentioned, Solo Stove has offered to do a giveaway for one lucky subscriber of Patrons of the Pit. We've never done a giveaway before, but you guys deserve it, and well, it might be fun. As mentioned at the beginning of this post, there are three ways to enter.
Three Ways to Enter!
The Turn: Mesquite Smoked Pork Chops
Autumn is a lovely time of year. Cooler days and chilly nights. Walking out to the car in the morning, there is a crisp bite in the air, and it just smells better, somehow, because its cold. Geese are on the wing, daily it seems, flying like bomber squadrons overhead, honking as they strafe past, their strong wings whooshing through the chill air. And then there are the leaves. Umpteen billions of them. Golden, and orange, and fiery red; around every corner, down every road – and they quiver and tingle on thin stems in the slightest breeze, quaking there. Waiting to drop. Waiting the turn.
I was cooking supper at the Pond Side Pit the other night, just admiring the autumn scene. Namely the big, old cotton wood there, and how resplendent its leaves looked against a blue, October sky. I don't know how it is in Texas, or the desert, or even for our friends down there in Ecuador, but autumn in Minnesota is maybe why we all live in here in the first place. It is surreal. Something beautiful to behold every square foot, leastwise in the natural realm. All the trees gussied up so fine, free of that chlorophyll stuff, and my but they look akin to bride's maids for the Fall.
Supper was some pork chops. Thick-cut of course, for not only are we Patrons of the Pit, but hark, we're also hungry! So thick-cut it would be. For seasoning we tried some rub our old buddy, TJ Stallings, sent to us. His good friend, O'Neill Williams, of O'Neill Outside came up with some new flavors, and we were lucky enough a hold of some,thanks to TJ. Tonight's medley of yum is the Wild Game Seasoning, tinted with a light mesquite smoke, and some darn succulent chops. Granted, my pork chops aren't too wild, but no how, good is good, right, and now wildly good, perhaps, with some of this seasoning. We'll give it a shot.
As I bandied a pile of orange glowing coals to the side of the little kettle grill for indirect cooking, it dawned on me that my leisurely summer evenings of cooking in the sunlight were coming to a close. The turn was at hand. Where autumn fades to longer nights. If there is a draw back to this fabulous season, at least for a pit jockey, it is the longer nights. Up here in Minnesota, the nights will come on all-too-swiftly in the coming weeks, and before somewhere in December, the nights will last about 14 hours altogether. That just ain't right. So that means one of two things for a pit keeper. You either make your supper elsewhere, or you grill in the dark. For some reason I cannot completely divine, we've always been partial to the latter. Probably the sum result of inhaling one too many smoke plumes off a smoldering hickory log. Aw well.
So as I brought these gorgeous chops to the sultry land of succulence, I couldn't help but to lavish also in the scant light that which lingered at the pit this night. How the long slants of an autumn sunbeam washed through the fluttering cottonwood leaves, and lit up that blue sky above for just a few minutes more. Indeed, we've been blessed. I savored the moments here, pit side, with tongs in hand, listening to the pork sizzle over the bed of coals, and enjoying the radiant heat off the old kettle grill. This was nice, I thought. Very pleasant. Maybe because I knew in the back of my mind that the winter grilling season was right across the way. I mean, I could see it yonder. Just over there, behind that seasonal curtain waiting to drop. Behind those beautiful leaves fixed to fall. But for the moment anyways, and maybe even longer than that, I know that I am grilling in the light, and long may we tarry here in the sweet sun that which fills the day. Amen.
Mesquite Tinted Pork Chops seasoned with O'Neill Outside Wild Game Seasoning on an October Eve swiftly fading. And all the pit jockeys rejoiced!
Ps…If you're so inclined, we made a little companion video of this pit session to share with you. Another way to see our meat! Yes, we have a you tube channel. And no, we never use it! But it's there for times like these, even so. Enjoy!
Blessings, POTP…
Avoid Steel Bristles In Your Intestines: The Right BBQ Scraper
We've all been there. Any pit jockey worth his or her tongs has been there. Has seen their beloved grill grate in various states of entropy and decay. With blackened carnage clinging to the grate in crusty reminders of smoke outs past, and grand family BBQ's. And who hasn't grabbed one of those steel brushes and got to work on the grate, cleansing it's working surface for the betterment of thy people. You feel like a man when you do it. It's what we're trained to do. And the problem is, it's not particularity a smart thing to do.
The Folly With Steel Wire
Seems the ageless wire brush we use on our grills has one painful folly. Every once in a while a steel bristle breaks off. And every once in a while beyond that, some one eats it. Well, we don't need to go into detail how such a diet of steel bristles truly sucks, it's as bad as you're thinking it would be, but instead, lets just cut to the point, and find an answer to this quandary. An answer besides not BBQing that is. Because that would be no life at all.
BBQ Scraper – Natural Wooden Grill Cleaner
Enter The Wooden Scraper
I'm sure many of the readership has heard of wooden scrapers by now. They've been out for a while, in response, no doubt, to steel pricks finding their way in to people's intestinal tracks. Thus enters the wooden scraper. While we do not know who invented the idea of a wooden scraper for the BBQ arts, we gotta agree, it's a good idea. Tho we have never once experienced a busted-off bristle ruining our BBQ, and we've BBQ'd a lot, it also stands to reason, why would you ever take the chance if you didn't have to. We recently were given some wooden scrapers to test out by the good folks at bbqscraper.com. Nice little, functional scrapers made of birch. Simple, but effective. Like good BBQ, I suppose. And best of all, no chance ever of a wayward steel needle in your belly. Lets take a closer gander at this thing.
BBQ Scraper – Natural Wooden Grill Cleaner
The Original BBQ Scraper
The Scrape Down
Well there's basically nothing to it, as you can see. Just use it. Tip it on edge over a hot grate, any kind of grate, and within the time frame of the first cook, the scraper begins to customize right to your grate. Creating its own set of grooves to match your grate. And yes, it's a grate idea! Sorry. Had to. And further more, the more you use these kind of scrapers, the better, more customized they become. And of course, no worries about a trip the ER to dig out a steel pin from your gut, ruining your BBQ dinner. That's always nice.
Final Thoughts
Anyways, these scrapers are looking like a good, solid, and serviceable product that should last quite a while. Well made and a pleasure to use. Adapts swiftly to your grate. There are many sorts of scrapers out on the market, and tho we cannot honestly say any are better than the other, we can say that these guys at BBQ Scraper.com were good to us, and we thank them for their scrapers. Be sure to check them out if you're looking to ditch that old wire brush. Likewise steel bristles in your intestines. Amen.
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Grilling Paradise: How To Be There When You're Not
How we love to tarry in the prettier places. Often times striking off for the pristine hinter regions of northern Minnesota. And there, under the whispering pines, beside tumbling rivers, we press a tent stake into the soil, and rest like gentlemen of leisure. The cares of the city life metaphorically swirling down the drain, like dirty bath water after a long day afield. Soon, we think of nothing else, nothing but the wind, the sky, the woods, and the loveliness of water falling in paradise.
The river flows with a fierce elegance up here. She will dazzle you with her beauty, and in the flip of a heart beat, wash you into one of her deep pools, and pin you there but for the wages of eternity. Kayakers know this. And so do Patrons of the Pit, who cower wisely on the shores. Nay, these waters are best left to the native brook trout which loiter in the eddies, awaiting the wayward drift of a Rhithrogena germanica or the like.You know how it goes. Anyways, whence the night falls over the forest primeval, we do rather like to kindle a fire and bandy close to its coals.
An old, blackened tea-pot with a dented, and beaten-up lid, hangs hobo style over the fire, bringing the evening's water to a boil. I rummage through my pack for my twenty year old steel mug, whilst the flicker of the flames dance softly over head on the bottom of the pine bows. Found it. I rip open a package of cinnamon tea, and plop the bag into my cup, it's string hanging limply over the lip. I look up. The stars are out now, shimmering behind the tall pines, dappling through the thin needles. The river tumbles in the darkness. And I can smell the smoke waft off the fire, and taper into the pine-scented woods. Can you smell it!
Via the powers of the blogosphere, you have now been transported. Swept away through space and time, and plunked down in a saintly fashion at the Track Side Pit, where our fellow Patron is plying his craft upon a congregation of yard bird legs. Chicken legs for you city folk. He's got a nice char going on, as you can see, with flirts of caramelization. Seasoned with who knows what, but it's good! The aromas bellowing off the grill would turn a vegan silly, I'd wager. And can you smell the smoke…
Smoke. The smell of it. For some reason God has linked smells inextricably with memory. And that's the curious link between here and there. Between cooking on the patio in the city, and cooking over the open fire, far away, encamped in a quiet, forest hollow. We've mentioned it before, but we'll say it again. Because every time we light the fires here at home, the aroma of the smoke in-turn triggers a rush of memories from camp fires past. And a great many of those fires have been in the wilder places, in paradise, doing what we love to do. And as we rotate these gorgeous chicken legs over a fiery bed of coals, with metal tongs in hand, we cannot help but to reminisce at the same time of the beautiful locales from whence we've tarried. Oh yes. To reach back on the tender wings of nostalgia, and thumb through our memory vaults to those campsites past, fire-side, under fragrant pines and starry skies, where the water falls in paradise. Amen.
5 Reasons Why Ribs Are The Perfect Thing To Smoke
They came trucking up through the green grass as if they owned the place. And maybe they do. For let it be said, they were here long before we ever showed up. When we first moved in, they were the first to greet us. And when if we move from here, they'll probably be standing there beside the driveway, the last to wave us good-bye. I speak of course, of the resident Mallards of the Pond Side Pit. And boy are they cute these days. Spring is just wrapping up here on the 45th parallel, and all the many ducks are closely followed by a feathery amoeba of miniature ducks, just like them – their little hairy faces, alive, and bright-eyed to a new, and outstanding world. Seems every time I light up the pit out back, they are there, investigating…Or maybe it is they're just checking in that it is not their kin folk they smell cooking under my lid.
Fear not little ducks, for it is only a wee rack of pork ribs smoking under our lid today. With gentle plumes of pecan and apple wood, seasoned in Kits K.C. BBQ Rub from the good folks at Miners Mix. I'm telling you this, there are a precious few better ways to while away a beautiful afternoon, than to tarry long in your BBQ chair, with a cold beverage in hand, feet propped up as per proper pit master posture, wowwy, and a cool breeze washing fresh over you the day long. Indeed, bringing pork ribs to a succulent, and tasty end game is our heady privilege. A Pit Jockey's delight.
5 Reasons Why Ribs Are The Perfect Thing To Smoke
Meat Candy
Ribs are perhaps the perfect thing to smoke, and I'll tell you why. First off, ribs are meat candy to a man. Let's just be clear about that. We lust for them. Next to bacon, I suppose, nothing gets our slobbers running more than the heady prospect of a good rack of ribs.Carnal, but true. We just had to clear the air on that matter.
It's About Time
Secondly, ribs take just the right amount of time to cook. Look, if you at all enjoy the many facets of the Smokey Arts, and aspire yourself a patron of the pit, then you know in your soul, just as surely as you know anything, just how fun smoking meat is. Burgers and bratwurst are good and all, but the show is over too quick with those. Your coals still burn for something more. You crave a longer campaign pit-side. Something that takes you deep into the game. Pork butts and brisket are fantastic, we're talking out-of-the-ball park home runs, but you seldom have the available clock for them. In point of fact, you might as well rip a whole day off the calendar for those big meats. That's how long they tend to take. But ribs, ah ribs, well they saddle up just right. They are the perfect afternoon smoking project. You can fire up the pit at noon, and have your ribs done by supper. That's just enough time to make you feel like you've done something proper-like in the Smokey Arts. Just enough time to rejoice in the ways of the pit master, such as napping pit-side, or watching a ball game with your shoes off. Just enough time to flex your patience a little, and log some quality pit time under blue-bird skies.
In a world ripe with haste, ribs take precisely the right amount of time.
Another reason why ribs are the perfect thing to smoke, is that success is not always a given. There does seem to me anyways, a certain smokey-scented, serendipity, to cooking ribs in charcoal fueled pit. I know this because I always marvel when they turn out good. Now if I knew it was in the bank all along, then why would I marvel? I don't know. But know this, ribs are satisfying to get right. Not just to your belly, but to your personal growth as an accomplished meat maestro. All your research and experimentation into technique and method, culminating in a few short hours under, long, smokey columns of goodness. In many ways, ribs are a sort of litmus test of your pit skills. You can divine a great deal about a pit keeper's craft from his ribs.Ribs keep us learning.
Picasso in Pork
Next, ribs are the perfect blank pork canvas in which to paint your BBQ Picasso. You can season them up so many ways, from just salt and pepper to intricately conceived rubs snatched from only your brain pan alone. To sauce or not to sauce, well, leave it to your pit master instincts. Smoke woods, oh where to start! Every rack is a different journey into the smokey realm. Every rack its own entity. It's own dance with fire and smoke. Ribs are your personal expression in meat art. Your Picasso in Pork. So wield your brush, people, with all due enthusiam.
A Ticket to Relax
And at last, and subtly under-toned along the way, every rack is your ticket to an afternoon off, to loiter pit-side, with a manly beverage in hand, and declare to yourself and those who come upon you, that you are in no hurry today. That you have, by choice, raised your foot clear of the accelerator pedal of life, and for a few short smokey hours, and maybe even longer than that, all your world is right. You're not grilling hot dogs today. Nay, you're smoking ribs. And that my friends, is a very a good day indeed. Amen.
Five hours, low and slow, people. Pecan/Apple Amoked BBQ ribs. Son! And my ducks were Okay with this.
Track-Side: Ceder Planked Shrimp and Scallops
Location : Track-Side Pit
Time : Not too long ago…
Take a gander at this spread, won't you, put on by John, our Patron of the Pit Co-Founder, and care taker of the Track Side Pit. Yes indeed, he was seen in his backyard recently, plying his craft over a hemorrhaging bed of orange coals. Nothing stood in his way of culinary, smokey-tinted perfection. We're talking :butter, garlic, ginger, salt, pepper, scallops, shrimp, onion, pepper and red potatoes. Man! If this don't make you hungry right now, you probably have a face full of dirt! As he so bluntly, but exquisitely phrased it, "Freakin sexy goodness!" Indeed, old boy. Indeed.
He's coming along, that boy. In point of fact, he finally got himself a 22 inch Weber Kettle Grill. And he's loving it. I don't know what he was waiting for either. And as you can see, he's been making good use of it too.
Here is another thing he whipped up off-hand the other day. A pit keeper's favorite.
ATB's. Better known as Atomic Buffalo Turds. He took them a step further than most pit jockeys, and later glazed them in maple syrup, and dashed them with fresh cracked pepper. Mercy!
So that's the recent goings on of the Track Side Pit. It's good to see the other half once in a while. He doesn't very often post here, or brag of his grilling talents. But I personally think he can grill circles around most people I know, including myself. He holds down the social media branch for PotP, and samples any spices or sauces that are sent our way. If you want to see more of what he's been up to, you can find him supporting our Patron of the Pit Instagram account. Boy it's a party over there! Stop by and say howdy to him!
Sometimes he shows up on our facebook page too.
Grill on!
In Honor of Heroes: Memorial Day Pulled Pork
The Lilacs are blooming on Mt. Moriah.
Greetings dear readership, and brethren of the smoke. We've been on vacation as of late, and I won't deny it's been a rather lovely sortie away from the digital trenches. A routine of which, if I am not careful on the matter, I suspect that I could get quite used to. We're talking life on the road here. Seeing new sights every day. Meeting interesting people. And that hallowed feeling of putting a great many miles between you and the home front. It's nice, and a wee bit intoxicating to the spirit. But alas, we are home now, and well-traveled. We have some good vittles outback on the smoker, too, but before we get to that, I'd fancy to show you something we discovered out way of the Black Hills. Something I thought it was kind of cool, and maybe you will too.
We were in the small Cowboy Hamlet better known as Deadwood, SD. Strolling up the main street there, which if there ever was a main street in this world that begs to be strolled, this perhaps was it. We made the usual token rounds: We saw the Celebrity Hotel where Brad Pitt's slippers from Spy Games were on display. We went in the ice cream shop hoping for a double scoop of Rocky Road, but no one was around to harvest our currency. So we sidled out the door – scoopless. We also poked our head in the bar where Wild Bill Hickok was shot, thought about it for a while, then left. You know, the usual Deadwood flybys. Then, after the formalities were over, we found ourselves up on a hill, on Mt Moriah to be exact, in a cemetery there overlooking the town. It was a quaint place, by and by, that is if cemeteries can register as quaint. The lilacs were fragrant, and the grass was green. And it was up there that I saw the flag.
The American flag hung limply on it's pole, back-dropped by a blue, South Dakotan sky. I guess it wasn't so much the flag, there, waving over Deadwood that captured my attention. It was more the plaque residing just below it, and the words it forever held there.
Here is a flag, if you read the plaque, that is always up. Every day. Twenty and four hours a day. Never in our lifetime to see a half-mast. Never to forget our brave soldiers in battle, nor their selfless trials endured for the sake of our country. It's been flapping in the sky over Deadwood for a long time now, since WWI it says, as stalwart, and as true, as the veterans it honors. I don't know about you folks, but I thought that was pretty cool. In a day and age where so many flags seem perpetually stuck half-way up the pole, here is one that at last resists. And that is no small thing amid the pine-scented breezes of Mt Moriah.
Anyways, that is what I wanted to show you. Something we saw in our travels afield. Now out to the pit!
The Joy of Bark
It was Memorial Weekend, and as you can see we had some fine eating coming to maturity pit-side. A humble little pork shoulder, or butt if you must, one of which needed only 6 hours on the smoker, courtesy of it's wee size. I think it was only 5 or 6 pounds, boneless, and nary fraction shy of utter succulence. This photo was snapped near the end of the cook, and my oh my, take a look at that bark. Glory be!
Bark. It's what every pit jockey secretly strives for. That hallowed offspring of seasoning and smoke, and of heat and meat. The magical effects of bark cannot be understated, nor I think, adequately even explained. Just trust us when we say, you want bark. Yes, to the uninitiated, it might resemble something more of a meteorite that landed in your back yard. Likewise, lift the lid of the pit housing a well-barked butt, and the newbies about will at once moan your name in vain, declaring it a grievous loss. This is common place. You always have to reassure them that it's alright. It's just bark.
When you pull your pulled pork, which is usually appropriate anywhere from 195 to 203 internal, you always want to evenly distribute plenty of bark amongst the meat. The best pulled pork sandwiches have a little bark in every bite. And we have found if you foil your butts like many pit masters like to do, that the practice can sometimes lend to a lesser bark. So if you want a robust bark, let your pork shoulder ride "nekkid" the whole way. That's just our opinion, but it seems to be the case.
Another tip for good bark is to use a mustard slather first thing, before you apply your rub. The mustard acts purely as an adhesive agent for your spices. The more rub you can get to stick, the better the bark. And no, the mustard flavor will not register on your tongue. I don't know why, nor do I try to analyze it. It's just one of the enduring mysteries of the BBQ Arts. Our rub we used this smoke, Maynards Memphis Rub, was from the kindly spice wizards at Miners Mix. We've used it on a lot of stuff now, and pork may be it's strongest suit. Man! Very tasty! Oh, and our smoke wood this time was hickory and apple.
After letting the meat rest, whilst tented in aluminum foil, we pulled the tender and most succulent pork muscles into savory tendrils of perfectly smoked pork. Mixing that all important bark in through-out the sandwich. This is authentic BBQ, people. The real thing. I'm sorry, but your all-beef wieners will just have to take a back seat today. That's just how it goes.
Before We Devour
I try to give thanks to the Good Lord more at meals these days. Just because. Because it's the right thing to do, I suppose. Thanks for family, and for health, and for good food, like slow-smoked, pulled pork sandwiches. Not to mention just the privilege of just getting to BBQ in the first place, in a country that is free to do such things. Indeed, much to be thankful for. And as I cast a glance out the patio door , and see the smoker out there still curling faint, blue, wisps of smoke, I cannot help to but to give thanks also for the military men and women who have served, and still serve our country. You will always be our heroes. And always have our respect. And I think of the American flag flying stoically atop Mt. Moriah, and the beautiful fragrance of the lilacs which bloom there. Amen.
A Pit Keeper's Respite: Pecan Tinted Pork Chops on the Weber Kettle Grill
The other weekend my trail crony and I made camp at a nearby wilderness establishment; a locale of great loveliness, off the beaten path, and aside a watershed patron to a sky full of stars. As you may have gleamed around here, from time to time, we do rather like to engage our souls in the wilder places. In point of fact, if ever we were to scribe another blog, it would doubtless be one touting the high joys of the outdoor life. For this is what we do, by and by, besides grilling beautiful cuts of meat, that is. We seek to tarry where creation is most divine. And so there we were, naturally, on the forest floor, our tents poetically pitched at the tail of a moonbeam. The stars drifting across an ebony sky. And the coyotes yelping from the distant hills.
If you've never spent the night in the forest, your senses have never then been properly primed. Nor your imagination so sublimely stretched. To hear the critters scamper about, and everyone of them, you swear, sniffing the trembling corners of your tent. You can hear the diameter of coyote's nose at ten paces, as it draws it's air from the still night. The Trumpeter Swans bellowing in the darkness. You can hear those too. The Great Horned Owls stirring up a nocturnal racket, yapping on like little old ladies sitting in the tree tops. Then, some time in the wee hours, the undecipherable sounds of something heavy and hairy wandering at the edge of the woods. Nay, that's just my camp mate, out for his nightly leg raise. It's all good in the woods.
Shifting gears now, out at the pit. A light pecan smoke curls from the old kettle grill. It's been a long week. A busy week. The kind of week that the big city is good at dishing out to those challenged and beleaguered souls entrapped within it's elastic bosom. Everyone is in a hurry here. Pedal to the proverbial metal. Car horns blaring. Phones ringing. Sirens racing. It's really something. Or at least you seem to notice it more, perhaps, after a good camping trip afield. Maybe that's what it is. There is a palatial difference, or is it indifference, between the speed of life in the city and one out in the quieter places. One of head-turning, iconoclastic proportions. And it only takes one night bedded down on the forest floor to realize it. And so my grilling, as humble as it may be, is at last a small respite to me – a last beach head of tranquility in a world gone to haste.
So it was, and with great pleasure, too, that I laid the succulent pork chops over the pecan-scented flames. This one simple act, where man cooks meat over fire, outside, seems to trigger a domino of mental pleasures, all toppling forth in a splendid way before me. For starters, the smell of the wood smoldering over the fire. Very pleasant. Which in turn, connects to memories of cooking fires past. And some of those memories, of fires yonder, in places long ago. Of camp fires and good people. Over hill and by the dale, where the coyotes freely sing, and the moonbeams kiss the tender fabric of our tents. And illuminate the quiet hollows of our soul. Amen.
Pecan smoked pork chops, with garlic mashed potatoes and a good spill of peas. Good is good at the pit tonight. And even better cooked outside. A Pit Keeper's respite.


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First, I apologize for my English.
Short problem description:
I have problem with SmartPtr in multi threaded application and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, because some symbols are missing during linking.
My environment:
- MS Windows XP, SP3
- compiler from MS Visual Studio 2008
- QtCreator IDE
- Loki version: 0.1.7
Loki linking:
I compile it separately as static library using solution file in source file downloaded from Loki home web page.
My goal:
I want to create SmartPtr of an object ("ReconstructResult" type) which would use reference counting thread-safe (so RefCounted is unusable).
How do I do this:
- I use typedef of pointer type:
#include <loki/SmartPtr.h> #include <loki/Threads.h> // ... typedef Loki::SmartPtr<ReconstructResult, Loki::RefCountedMTAdj<Loki::ObjectLevelLockable>::RefCountedMT > ReconstructResultPtr;
- I define global macro "LOKI_OBJECT_LEVEL_THREADING" (no value) for whole project (it's defined in project file, so there shouldn't be problems like defining this macro after including headers).
What's wrong:
- At first compiler was complaining about undefined atomic_mutex_. This I solved using patch which I found thanks to (btw. similar error is reported at ).
- After this patch the error was solved and code finally compiled.
- But another error appeared during linking:
ModelViewWidget.obj:-1: Chyba:LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static struct _RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION Loki::ObjectLevelLockable<class Loki::RefCountedMTAdj<class Loki::ObjectLevelLockable,class Loki::Mutex>::RefCountedMT<class Laethnes::ReconstructResult *>,class Loki::Mutex>::atomic_mutex_" (?atomic_mutex_@?$ObjectLevelLockable@V?$RefCountedMT@PAVReconstructResult@Laethnes@@@?$RefCountedMTAdj@VObjectLevelLockable@Loki@@VMutex@2@@Loki@@VMutex@3@@Loki@@0U_RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION@@A)
- and similar (same error, different obj files - these which uses the pointer).
- I solved it by adding following code to "loki/Threads.h":
#ifdef LOKI_WINDOWS_H template <class Host, class MutexPolicy> CRITICAL_SECTION ObjectLevelLockable<Host, MutexPolicy>::atomic_mutex_; #endif #ifdef LOKI_WINDOWS_H template <class Host, class MutexPolicy> CRITICAL_SECTION ClassLevelLockable<Host, MutexPolicy>::atomic_mutex_; #endif
My problem:
- My problem is that I couldn't find any similar error report on Internet which means that people who posted patch at and didn't encounter it. From this I conclude that I'm doing something wrong which causes this error. And I don't know what it is, so I ask you.
- Also I don't know if my patch is good; I'm not good in using templates, I know only basics, using typename and specialization.


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Love is the only thing that can change the unchangeable. Love invigorates. Love revitalizes. Love renews. Love refreshes. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, because God is love. It doesn't say he has love; it says he is love. Love heals what cannot otherwise be healed. Love uplifts. Love strengthens. Love energizes. Love empowers.
"Take delight in honoring each other" — I love that! You know what that means? It means when people in your small group have a win in health, finances, or any goal they've set, you need to celebrate with them. Celebrate their wins. You lost two more pounds? Congratulations! You got a little bit out of debt? Fantastic! You had a breakthrough in your marriage? Terrific! The Bible says to take delight in honoring each other and to show genuine affection.
Here's the amazing thing: God has wired the universe so that when you help other people, God takes care of your problems. God is looking down on you not to say, "Are you helping yourself?" but "Are you helping others?" Do you want help with your goals? Start helping other people with their goals. Give yourself away. There is healing in giving back.
Remember the story of Job where he lost everything? He lost his health, he lost his family, he lost his wealth. He lost it all. At the end of the book, God gave it all back to Job. Why? Because Job prayed for himself? No. It says, "After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before" (Job 42:10 NIV).
Why do you need to be in a small group? Not just so other people can help you, but so you can help them. So you can pray for those people, and then God can help you. Give yourself away in love, and then watch God work in your life.
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Junior Road Trip | June 3-4
Junior Summer Programs Begin | June 6
Adult Beginners Tennis 101 | June 13
Adult/Child Firecracker Round Robin | July 4
Tennis Committee Meeting | July 11
Ladies Breakfast at Wimbleton | July 15
Tennis enthusiasts of all ages enjoy our program, which is considered one of the best and most active in North Florida. We offer 10 lighted Har-Tru courts, as well as a fully stocked pro shop, for all of your tennis needs. Tennis instruction is offered at all skill levels, from social, recreational, tournament and advanced.
FYC's talented and outgoing staff is lead by our Director of Tennis, Louis Ballantyne, supported by 5 teaching professionals, all of which are USPTA and PTR certified. Each teaching professional is experienced in a wide variety of instructional programs, for all ages and skill levels.
State-of-the-art ball machine and backboard are also available for those who would like to fine tune their game, or warm-up before an important match.
If you are looking for either a well-respected program to mold your child into a future tennis star, or an adult team to join and get your competitive juices flowing, The Florida Yacht Club is the place for you!
The Tennis Pro Shop Phone # (904) 389-4281
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Louis Ballantyne's love for tennis was cultivated during a childhood spent accompanied by the bright sun and white sands of Freeport, Bahamas. Two years after picking up tennis, Louis won the Boys 12 Bahamian Doubles Nationals, and one year later found himself moving to Apopka, Florida, where he would finish his junior career ranked in the top 20 in Florida. After graduating from the University of North Florida, where he was an All-American in 1988, Louis spent two summers in Germany playing professional team tennis and traveling Europe playing ATP futures events.
From 1988 to 1993, Louis also taught and coached tennis at Oakbridge Racket Club and The Marriott at Sawgrass, as well as Sanlando Park in Altamonte Springs. During this high-energy period of flourishing success, Louis coached several top-ranked Florida juniors, as well as several touring pros, among whom included Caroline Kuhlman, whose ranking improved from #300 to top 70 while under Louis' tutelage on the WTA tour, an ascension whose highlights included Kuhlman hitting with former world #1 Monica Seles.
Louis took on the next big challenge in his young career when be became the Director of Tennis at the Florida Yacht Club. The FYC tennis program has flourished with Louis at the helm, growing from 6 adult teams and 15 active juniors to more than 25 adult teams and 100 active juniors. 50 juniors coached by Louis have gone on to receive college tennis scholarships, and many of Louis' adult and junior teams have been coached to city and state championships. The Florida Yacht Club junior program has grown to become considered one of the elite programs in Northeast Florida, and the program currently trains 50 juniors ranked in Florida, as well as 5 former juniors currently playing collegiate tennis.
Louis is a USPTA P1-certified professional, and has remained very active with the USPTA, pursuing extensive continuing education and serving on several committees. Louis is presently the President of the USPTA District 2 in Jacksonville. In addition, he received his USTA High Performance Coaching Certificate in 2002, a program with which Louis has remained very active. Louis has also received several professional awards including the First Coast Tennis Foundation Director of Tennis award and the USPTA Player of the Year Award three times. Louis has continued to be a successful tennis player since joining the Florida Yacht Club in 1993, having been ranked in the top 5 in Florida and the top 10 nationally in USPTA, including 2013 #1 ranking in the Men's 45 Doubles.
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'Inspire, Challenge, Achieve / Ysbrydoli, Herio, Cyflawni'
2016 - 2017
SCHOOL FETE Saturday 1st July
Friday 9th June: Non Uniform - please donate tombola items, e.g. tins, dried foods, bottles
Friday 16th June: Non Uniform - please donate toiletries and bric-a-brac
Friday 30th June: School Uniform - please donate bought cakes
All fete volunteers please contact Paula Harris, Angela Instone or Natalie Roche
Infant Families: many apologies!!!
Please make fruit tuck cheques payable to TCBC
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New Categorisation: We're YELLOW.
Thank you to my amazing team. We've improved from Red to Yellow in less than three years and this is testimony to everybody's relentless hardwork and professionalism. Really proud! xx
The 'Show Racism the Red Card!' Team are visiting school on 2.3.17. The target year group for this organisation is Y5 and I'm really looking forward to taking part in the interactive workshops.
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We have introduced the roles of Head Boy and Girl this year. They have a list of jobs to do over the year but the most important is to represent school to special visitors. Mr Blackburn made the choice and it was a very difficult decision but we are proud to announce that Morgan Parry is the Head Boy and Seren Wilkie is the Head Girl. They will be magnificent ambassadors!
A pupil who takes 10 days holiday (authorised or not) in an academic year will only attain 94.7% attendance. Please continue to support our target of 95% attendance and take family holidays during the school holidays! Please contact school with the reason why your child is absent from school as soon as possible.
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Here we go again $ 3.93 a gallon in Buffalo:crazy::crazy::crazy:
Where is the obama bashing like Bush took??? Double standard I guess.
$3.70+ and going up every day here in Fla.
TN is usually a little lower than the other states but it still stinks where we are at now. I think I paid 3.59 or so yesterday.
I paid $3.63 a gallon yesterday
$3.55 this AM in town avg seems to be $3.63 in my area
I caught it for $3.77 in Binghamton NY last night. Its $3.95 credit in Oxford NY, closer to home.
Obama did say that he wants a high gas price and a slow steady climb to get there. Since the media is in his pocket and this is what he wanted they see no reason to mention or complain about it.
It was $3.36 at wally world yesterday. Should have filled up then.
Paid $3.45 to fill up today. :-(
He will probably send out gas coupons to all his freeloading voters next
3.55 today
I paid $3.75 yesterday but 5 miles down the road it was $3.69 :wacko:
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Thinking of Hiking the Israel National Trail?
I'd love to urge everyone with an interest to consider hiking this trail, and offer as encouragement that it's very doable, in terms of physical effort and logistics. However, there is currently somewhat of a scarcity of online resources for hikers. When planning my trip in early 2011, I found it essential to have help, in person and via email, from people who'd hiked the trail before me. The logistics of the desert section, in particular, are very daunting to someone who's not from Israel, and caused me some headache even after having lived there for a year.
If you're not an experienced backpacker, then there's all the usual intimidation to deal with - even the most basic questions will seem complicated and overwhelming. If you are an experienced backpacker, traveling to a foreign country throws in an extra degree of complication. And in all cases, the logistics of supplying yourself with water on the desert part of the trail will be a headache, expensive, or both (see below for more details).
Web Resources
The INT Data Project is a good place to start, and has some helpful (although sparsely populated) forums you can browse through and post questions. Their FAQ has some good beginning information, although I would vigorously dispute the estimate that 30-45 days is a good estimate for the length of a thru-hike (see below). This new site also has a small but growing amount of information as of this writing.
How Long Will a Hike Take?
All in all, 1000 km at 20 km a day comes to 50 days. My own hike took 60, including a week-long break and other occasional rest days, but I also skipped about 5 days worth of hiking, which roughly canceled out the longer break I took. I'd say two months is a safe amount of time to budget, but strong hikers could do it in less. If you are not an experienced backpacker, allow two full months to be on the safe side. I'd say 20 km is a fair estimate for daily distance, accounting for rest days - many days in the desert require you to hike around 25 km, but on other days you will surely want to hike less to take it easy.
The Two Portions of the Trail
For practical purposes, the Israel Trail has two segments - the desert (the southern 40%-ish of its length) and not the desert. This is a logistical distinction, and an ecological one only by coincidence. North of Arad, there are towns on or close to the trail at least once per day, where water and (usually) food can be obtained. You do have to plan your food supplies based on where supermarkets and mini-markets are known to exist, but this is not overly difficult, as most towns of any size have at least a mini-market where you can buy basic food. Therefore, your schedule and the length of your days are more flexible, and each person's hike might look quite different. You can camp anywhere that isn't private property or a nature reserve (and that includes most places) and not much advance planning is required.
In the desert, south of Arad, the trail is extremely isolated. There are generally several long days' worth of hiking in between towns - 6 days at the longest, from Midreshet Ben-Gurion to Arad!. Almost all of the desert is within nature reserves, and in reserves you may only camp in the designated night camps. These "camps" are simply areas where camping is permitted, and have no amenities whatsoever, meaning you have to bring in your own water for each night (there is very little reliable groundwater along the trail, and hikers taking it would be ecologically damaging in any case). This makes for the most tricky and expensive part of the hike (see below, "Supplies in the Desert"). The night camps are also spread apart such that it's usually not possible to vary your itinerary from that which is predetermined by trail distances, unless you're capable of hiking 40+ kilometers of extremely difficult terrain in a day.
In short, the northern section of the trail allows for a flexible schedule and a more lax approach to planning; the desert portion of your hike will likely need to follow the more or less standard itinerary, and you'll have to arrange for water caches or drops at night camps so that you don't become stranded in the wilderness with no water.
When to Hike?
As with many trails, time of year is a critical consideration. My personal recommendation, born from too many sweltering summer days, is not to go backpacking in the Middle East (or do anything in the Middle East at all, for that matter), between May and September, due to the often overwhelming heat. The hiking conditions vary from unpleasant at best, to deadly at worst.
The spring (February through April) is unquestionably the best time to visit Israel, as the winter rain will have tapered off, leaving weeks of perfect temperatures and green fields full of wildflowers in its wake - though you'll still likely encounter some heavy rain at times. The fall (late October through mid-December, usually) normally has moderate temperatures and little rain, though the winter downpours can start suddenly and at full force. The downside of the fall is that the landscape is dead brown, as hardly a drop of rain will have fallen since the previous spring.
When you hike also tends to dictate which direction you want to hike. The ideal INT thru-hike would be north to south - the more forgiving terrain of the north gives you a chance to get your body into hiking shape before the much more brutal desert, and ending a long hike by descending a canyon to the Red Sea is certainly better than walking into a drab kibbutz backyard.
However, if you hike in the spring, going north to south means you will face either heavy, frequent rain in the north (if you start in January or February) or extreme heat in the Negev (if you start later than that). Starting in the Negev in February, though, will give you moderate temperatures in the desert and, with luck, not too much rain in the north. My northbound hike in March and April gave me almost perfect weather, save for a hot last few days toward the end of April.
On the other hand, if you hike in the fall/winter, you can head south, getting into the Negev by the time rain begins in earnest in December - but the downside of this is that the land up north will still be brown and dead-looking instead of green and lush, as it would be in spring.
It's your call which direction to hike, but remember that there are good reasons for going north-to-south in fall/winter and south-to-north in spring, and for hiking in spring rather than fall.
Guides and Navigation
Navigation on the trail can be done by means of the existing guidebook, "Hike the Land of Israel", with whose quality and price (as I mention sometimes in my journal entries) I have a lot of issues. However, it's the only English-language guide right now and does include maps that should be adequate for most navigation. There is a new version out (I hiked with the 2009 edition) and the reviewers on Amazon seem to think highly of it, as did the Israelis I hiked with, so make of my complaints what you will.
Here's an excerpt from one of my entries regarding navigation-related issues: "The Israel Trail is very well marked for probably 90% of the trail. For another 5%, the marks are either faded, hidden, or damaged, but you can pretty much tell where you have to go even without markings. The other 5% you're basically guessing, and these parts are where a good guidebook steps in and gives you detailed directions. A good guidebook, unfortunately, does not exist (as of when we hiked) and so our attempts to navigate just made us more and more irritated."
Basically, there are a few places (occasionally of significant length) where the trail markings are difficult to find, nonexistent, very infrequent, or otherwise unhelpful, and in those areas, if the path itself is unclear or intersects with many other paths, you will probably have trouble finding your way. In all these cases, maps are essential so that you can, at least, find your way to a point where the trail passes an obvious landmark.
Needless to say, either a GPS or paper maps are a good way to address these difficulties, though both have their failings. The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel publishes a set of 19 excellent 1:50,000 topographical maps covering all of Israel, the Golan, and the Palestinian territories, which include comprehensive information on terrain, land features, and marked and unmarked paths, roads and tracks. The maps exist only in Hebrew, but I created a free, PDF-format English-speaker's guide to them last year, which with a bit of effort should enable you to use them. It's essentially a rough draft and has a few errors (for example, what I translated as "night parking" and "day parking" actually represent night camps in the Negev), and a few of the symbols are different depending on how new your map is, but I vouch for its overall reliability. The SPNI topo maps are sold in outdoors stores all over Israel, and in the SPNI's offices for somewhat lower prices than elsewhere.
The Israel Trail runs through 14 of the SPNI's 19 maps, and the list of which you'd need if you were were using those maps is found on the Jesus Trail site's brief blurb on the INT. I wrote most of said blurb, and would change a few details: For one, I'm not sure why I said that only experienced backpackers should through-hike, although experience most definitely helps a lot, in terms of physical conditioning if nothing else.
Also available in Hebrew only are some section maps of the INT, published by the SPNI - if you can read Hebrew, they should be quite helpful, although where they excel in compactness, they correspondingly sacrifice detail and thoroughness.
The Main Complication: Supplies in the Desert
Desert logistics are the foremost source of headache and expense. In the Negev, as mentioned above, opportunities for resupply are so scarce as to dictate your hiking schedule. You'll need to plan your itinerary in advance, and stash water at certain places along the way, then make sure that you end each day's hiking at a place where there is water. The Israel Trail Wiki has a good (though fairly daunting for the foreigner) list of people who can be paid to stash water for you, or even bring water out to you once you arrive at a night camp. Here is a page with links to several accounts of people caching water and their experiences.
Be aware that both of your options - caching or ordering deliveries - are expensive, especially the latter, unless you have a fairly large group of hikers. I was able to find a group online by emailing around to various folks and seeing if they could hook me up with someone, so my group of 8 ended up splitting the cost for caches between Gev Holit and Arad. I think it was 8 or 9 caches, and the jeep service we hired cost a reasonable 250 NIS apiece, if I remember correctly.
If you are not on the actual caching trip, it's crucial to have very detailed directions to where your caches can be found - otherwise you may be stranded in the middle of nowhere without water! If you have access to GPS, make sure to get a .gpx file from your supplier which will point you to the exact cache locations (this could have saved my group a lot of anxiety and trouble). If you are on the caching trip, do not ever assume that someone who finds your water will leave it alone - hide your caches very well. Groups I've been with have had water caches stolen on three occasions - caches placed, I might add, by people other than myself!
I personally would only recommend caching your own water if you have a decent knowledge of the Negev's geography, and preferably GPS navigation. The cost will be similar to having someone place caches for you, and if you're renting a car, you'll save having to drive your rented vehicle over some truly crappy dirt roads. As for those accounts you may hear wherein hikers don't cache water and try to carry extra - you're welcome to try this, and I do know people who have gotten away with it, but I'd advise against it very strongly. The remote desert doesn't forgive mistakes, and it'll kill you if you don't take it seriously. People die of dehydration in Israel every year on lesser trips than you'll be taking on by tackling the trail through the Negev, and lack of planning and awareness of the environment is responsible for just about all of these cases.
Leave No Trace
It should go without saying that while hiking anywhere, you should behave according to Leave No Trace guidelines. Israel's environment has undergone a lot of stress over the last century, with a number of species wiped out and entire ecosystems obliterated. While you may not be draining any swamps or single-handedly depleting aquifers, you should still do your part to minimize your impact.
As always, the desert has the most fragile environments. The greatest offense you should avoid is the building of campfires using wood you find nearby, as removing organic matter from arid ecological communities does far more damage than it would in more fertile places. Campfires are also not a great idea in the rest of the country, especially in the dry seasons - you don't want to start the next wildfire that kills dozens of people. Bring a camp stove instead and eliminate the damage to the local environment as well as the risk of fire spreading.
Be conscientious about your bathroom practices - make a visit to Small Makhtesh Lookout Night Camp and try to find a tent spot on its toilet-paper-littered surface to understand why.
There's very little groundwater available on the southern parts of the trail, where it would be helpful what with the lack of towns. Don't take water from the pools you might find; you can't depend on it being there anyway, and thus should have other plans made for water. And if everyone does it, it will deprive the desert wildlife of precious water it can't get elsewhere.
Hammocking the INT
Finally, a concession to my personal penchant for hammock camping. Hammocks are gaining popularity in backpacking circles as an alternative to sleeping on the ground or in tents, the main benefit being the far greater comfort they provide if set up properly. They also eliminate the damage your tent would do to the ground by being pitched on it, and don't harm trees if set up correctly (using webbing, not ropes).
In some biomes, like my native eastern USA, trees are everywhere to be used as supports, and a hammock greatly expands the number of potential campsites one can find. In less wooded areas, including most of Israel, it can be more difficult to find trees to support the hammock.
In case you're thinking of taking a hammock on the INT, I can tell you that it can be done - in the northern section only, of course; the Negev is totally out of the question. I did have several nights where I couldn't find trees and had to "go to ground," but that was before I upgraded my suspension (the method used to hang the hammock). With my new setup, I could easily have camped in all of them. If you're familiar with your hammock setup and confident in your ability to find usable sites, go for it. One consideration - if you're with a group, some of whom are sleeping on the ground, your need for trees may interfere with their hiking pace, since your campsite options are restricted.
For those interested, Hammock Forums is a good place to start learning about this fairly radical alternative to traditional camping technology.
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