Comments on: Gear review: Deuce of Spades

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Sun, 01 May 2016 20:24:25 +0000

In reply to gene curp. I may have to steal that line.. ;)

By: gene curp

gene curp — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:10:33 +0000

In reply to gene curp. i admit to having dug my hole with a boot heel. Really it was only half a hole. Who want's to be a Half-Hole?

By: gene curp

gene curp — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:14 +0000

Duce of Spades is cool. It is soo light, and soo effective. Mine is red, and SweetBride’s is purple (a second, but it was her choice honest). 17 grams. Great stuff.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:14:01 +0000

I’m not a marketing genius, but wouldn’t “Spade of Deuces” be a better name? 😉

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 04:14:17 +0000

The opening of a beer bottle was more of a “gee, I wonder if that will work” when I read that liitle fact as i was writing the article. Tasty as the beer may have been, I do not think my wife would have been as impressed as much as I was. 😉 As with you, I’ll leave the bottles to post trip…no matter which trowel I may be packing.

By: Nick Gatel

Nick Gatel — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 03:04:46 +0000

I have two trowels. An ancient orange plastic trowel weighing two ounces, just like your’s and heavy by today’s standards. It now resides in my day pack ready for use.

I also have a high tech titanium trowel that weighs under .4 ounces for my backpacking trips. Not the same brand as your’s and It works better than my old one, but it doesn’t open a bottle of beer. I have nothing in my pack that can easily remove a beer bottle cap. But then I don’t bring beer on my hikes, and the trowel’s handle probably has “cooties” on it anyway.

I rarely drink beer, but am known to stop for one (or more) after a trip. Having completed a trip, I feel I have earned the right for a server to open a bottle of ice cold beer for me… luxury at its finest!

Other than that, excellent post as usual young man.

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:25:35 +0000

In reply to Another Kevin. I remember seeing that verse, and even some amusing stickers for that...in fact, here is one. :)

By: Another Kevin

Another Kevin — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:49:42 +0000

Catholic guilt? Maybe, but Moses wrote down a commandment about carrying a trowel and using a cathole. Deuteronomy 23:13. Seriously. The previous verse commands using the privy. (Because the LORD is walking abroad in your camp, and you wouldn’t want Him stepping in your waste, would you?)