Bushwalk Australia

too much effort in my opinion but it may be useful for longer trips or alpine trips where weight is more important

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6FNCS7de_A

Yeah, might be a rainy day project sometime. It could certainly save some bulk.

oh... ointments, not dairy.

ha ha, i had been reading about ice climbing and opened this thinking it was some magical way to carry ice cream good idea though, got me thinking to try the straws in the vac sealer...

Nuts wrote:... opened this thinking it was some magical way to carry ice cream

Lol, me too

Great find! I have this teeny tiny toothbrush kit (matchbox size, brush fits into the storage box - kit came with an italian bike helmet I bought - go figure), this will solve the refill issue of the paste, reckon I can get 2 days per straw tube @ twice per day.

Clever but not new.
If you were a regular forum tragic , like me, you would have seen that a few years ago at Backpackinglight , but most likely not new then.
here is the same idea from another site , June 2009..
http://www.instructables.com/id/Ultra-L ... &offset=40
I suspect that there are about 3687 people that have come up with the same idea.
Found that thread...

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin ... d_id=16817
note that a few already were doing it then...

Franco