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I love to camp and fish. Not necessarily both at the same time (cause fishing can happen at any time), though I am not opposed to it (As was evident when I took off to the snake river for a week). I am not, however, a big fan of the usual "camp" coffee. Nope. I usually grab my French press and pack it extremely carefully, or my stainless steel Moka Pot, or my Nepolitano or some other variation of coffee extraction. It's not just me... My dad has this awesome Coleman Drip Coffee Maker that sits on the burner of a Coleman and literally functions like an Auto-Drip, sans electricity. Which, to me, is just about the niftiest coffee brewing gizmo I have seen since the Handpresso hand pump espresso machine.
Let's face it, I am just…
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