







lorida 
T HERE'S a romantic ring to the 
name of this old Spanish city. 
"THERE'S a blending of the six- 
teenth and twentieth centuries. 
The original streets join broad 
boulevards. Quaint coquina homes 
and great modern structures. And 
there’s Fort Marion, the City Gates 
and numerous other historic land- 
marks. 
PREDOMINANCE of sunshine 
and brisk breezes from the sea 
produces a year ’round Spring, 
with a climate for happy living. 
MODERN day sports and attrac- 
tions are in no way limited. 
Two famous golf courses. 
Bathing, Fishing, Sailing and 
Water Sports in Ocean, Bay, 
and Waterways 
Hundreds of miles of pictur- 
esque motor roads and an ocean 
beach speedway, 400 feet wide. 
Parks and avenues of tropical 
charm. 
DIVERSIFIED sports program 
under supervision of profes- 
sional director. 
MacDonald’s Highlander Band 
January to April 
Ponce De Leon Celebration 
April 6, 7, 8, 1926 
Three Days’ Historical Pageant 
Gorgeous hotels, handsome homes 
and apartments of every size for 
winter or permanent occupancy. 
Investment possibilities with logi- 
cal basic values, not inflated. 
Right on the famous East Coast, 
with excellent railroad facilities 
and good motor roads. 
For information and booklet, 
address 
CHAMBER of COMMERCE 
of 
ST. AUGUSTINE 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 



A Cooking Outfit for the 
Back Packer 
Compact and Efficient, It Fills the 
Requirements of the Woodsman 
By E. K. HARDEN 
HE woodsman who carries his 
af: pack on his back requires light- 
ness and compactness, yet he 
wants his cooking and eating utensils 
large enough to make mess a pleasure 
rather than a juggling feat. The ex- 
tremely small, lightweight outfits are 
alright for a week-end outing, but after 
two or three days in the wilderness, 
the novelty of baking bread or frying 
a mess of fish in a six-inch pan soon 
wears off and it is not long before the 
camper wishes he had some honest-to- 
goodness dishes. 
Having tried most of the outfits now 
on the market and finding them either 
too small, bulky, difficult to clean or 
not having enough useful pieces, the 
outfit described below was assembled 
with the idea of overcoming most of 
these objections. 
The frying pan is a light steel affair, 

Two-man kit. 
10 inches in diameter across the top 
and 9 inches across the bottom. The 
handle folds across the bottom, but is 
rigid when extended and is so arranged 
that a stick may be inserted to make 
a handle of any length. Some home 
assembled outfits make use of the army 
mess kit, but as the hinged handle does 
not lock, flap jack flopping is impos- 
sible and the oval shape does not per- 
mit bread to be properly turned when 
baking before an open fire. A three- 
quart milk pan and a one-quart pud- 
ding pan, both of aluminum, were next 
purchased. The milk pan is 9 inches 
in diameter and 3 inches high, and the 
pudding pan is 7 inches in diameter 
and 2% inches high. Ata cost of $1.09 
a tinner put folding bails on both 
pans. In packing, the smaller pan nests 
in the larger and both in the frying 
pan. Over all this is inverted a 10- 
inch mountain pie pan, 1% inches high. 

One-man kit. 
This may be either of tin or aluminum. 
An open handle tin cup, fork and table- 
spoon completes the outfit. Be sure 
to use tin or granite cups as the heat 
conductivity of aluminum makes it al- 
most impossible to drink a hot. liquid 
from an aluminum cup. For the same 
reason some prefer tin plates to alu- 
minum. The sheath knife is carried 
on the belt. Such accessories as salt 
and pepper shakers, tea ball, ete., may 
be carried in the small pan, while the 
dish towel is stowed away between the 
frying pan and the large pan. A half 
pint friction top varnish can just fits 
in the tin cup and makes an excellent 
container for the match supply, and 
being in the cooking out, you have them 
when you want them. A carrying case 
may be made by sewing together two 
pieces of canvas 13 inches wide and 
15 inches long, rounded on the bottom. 
HE dimensions of the outfit when 
packed is 10 inches in diameter 
and 8 inches high. It was purposely 
made broad and flat. This shape makes 
it easy to pack and the large surface 
of the pans causes the food to heat 
more quickly and makes them ‘more 
stable when resting on the logs of a 
hunters fire. The mountain pie pan has 
a capacity of 1% pints and may be 



Packed. 
It will identify you. 
