Work For Stay

(1) Prison time.

(2) A form of barter in which you get something you want, like a warm, dry nook out of the weather to sleep in for one or more nights, and possibly a meal or two, in return for giving up some of your pre-death hours, usually accompanied by a degree of labor on your part, for the good of a hostel.

(3) Also known as the practice of allowing thru-hikers to work in exchange for bed and board. This is usually on a first come, first served basis, depending on need. Sounds like: "They let me do a work for stay and it saved me a lot of money."

(4) Moral of the story: You get as about as much as you pay for it. (Might still be fun if you're not fussy.)

 

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V-Baffle

A construction method used for down filled sleeping bags and clothing using individually constructed v-shaped chambers or tubes.

The narrow part of one baffle (the pointy part) sits in between the widest part of the two adjoining baffles, so the insulation is more even and drafts become less likely.

V-baffled is what you get if you try to sew up your own sleeping bag.

 

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Thunderbolt

Thunder: Any loud resounding noise (Boom!), or the sound of some self-important jerk haranguing everyone in a loud, threatening voice. (Been there, right?)

Bolt: A short, stout arrow with a heavy head, or maybe a flash of lightning. (Either one works, especially if you're out there near the pointy end.)

So then, put them together and you get "thunderbolt": "A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder." Works for me.

Often scary.

Seems more flashy and crashy the closer it is to you, and the darker the night, especially if you're out there all alone in your pup tent, having trouble getting flat enough not to feel like a target.

In various mythologies, a thunderbolt was a thing hurled by one god of thunder or another, generally for no discernable reason, because they were piffed about some insignificant annoyance, and could get away with it, being big and immortal and dickheads.

Thor was pretty good at this game: "Odin's eldest son, strongest of the gods though not the wisest." Fits the pattern, doesn't it?

 

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Svea

 

Brass & Gas

(1) Wheezing sound made as your stove runs out of fuel.

(2) Whistling sound coming from your nose when it's full of goop.

(3) Brand of brass, white-gas-burning Swedish stove first made around 1880 and only recently discontinued, then maybe not again. Anyhow, last listed a few years back by Recreational Equipment Inc. as the "Optimus Climber Svea 123R." I used to have one. Fun. Made in Sweden. Noisy. Ran incredibly hot. Pretty small overall.

(4) A Swedish female name, popular during the first half of the 20th century. Also "Mother Svea", the Swedish national emblem and the female personification of Sweden. (Yay, more or less then — yet another woman who can beat me up without breaking a sweat.)

 

Refs:
Svea 123

 

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Me? Got gas? No, just a mild case of svea.

 

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so says eff: sporadic spurts of grade eff distraction
definitions: outdoor terms
fiyh: dave's little guide to ultralight backpacking stoves
boyb: dave's little guide to backpacks
snorpy bits: nibbling away at your sanity
last seen receding: missives from a certain mobile homer
noseyjoe: purposefully poking my proboscis into technicals