... Beer!

Leave it to fellow adventurer and connossieur of all beers good and bad, Carl, to come up with proof positive that beer is, indeed, an essential item in the outdoors. In fact, your very survival could depend on it!

For one man, it really did. Buried under an avalanche in his car, a man consumed the 60 bottles of beer he happened to have with him and urinated his way to safety.

"I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there," the man said after.

What courage! What determination! My new hero! I wonder if you or I could take such extraordinary measures to save ourselves in the face of such danger. My cap is off to this brave man (my beer cap, that is)!.

Thanks Carl, for the link, and for making my day.

I'm outta here soon for a road trip to Vermont for some skiing. I'll very likely be laughing about this still when I get there. You can bet, too, that I'll be packing a load of beer in the car with me... purely for emergency purposes, of course. You just never, ever know, now do you?