Cold Splinters Survey: Getting Back To Your Car
3 Mar
It’s always a bittersweet moment getting back to your car after a few days in the woods/desert/prairie. You’ve accomplished something – even if it meant walking a few hundred yards, starting a fire, then drinking yourself to sleep – but you’ve also got to get back into a big piece of metal that will most definitely be either too hot or too cold for comfort. You take off your muddy clothes, put on less muddy ones, and drive a group of aching bones back to wherever it is you call home. But no matter how badly you wish you had one more day of eating apples and cinnamon oatmeal from an enamel bowl while watching the sun come up, you finally have a chance to play (BLAST) the song you’ve had in your head since the second you stepped on the trail.
Last week I carelessly asked how y’all prepare your coffee in the morning, and was surprised, shocked even, that so many people commented. I thought it’d be fun to do something like that again, because as I’m sure you must know by now, you are all much more interesting than I am and your answers show it. So hopefully you’ll take part in this one too and not make me feel like a fool when the comment section reads “0.”
What album do you put on when you get back to the car from a good hike?
dusk at cubist castle
After hiking in SoCal= “Rock and Soul Pt.II” – Hall and Oates
After hiking Desolation Wilderness, NorCal = “Victorialand” – Cocteau Twins
This is a great idea, but a tough call. I’m gonna have to go with Electric Wizard.
how can it not be springsteen. it has to be bruuuuuce. born in the usa.
i like driving home on sunday afternoons because that seems to be the time you’re most likely to find a country station doing one of those classic “legends of country” shows, and it’s all good and sometimes cheesy stuff you can sing along to…
Something way more obscure than Kevin.
http://www.coldsplinters.com/audio/06-promentory-1.mp3
Fleet Foxes during the sleepy drive home would be lovely
e-z. the dead or neil.
espers – travel mountains
Hey, Goat from Spokane, Wash here. I either pop on some phat Disco Biscuits, String Cheese or Yonder Mountain. If I am really in the mood, maybe some Panic, but that Southern chill breeze can be a little over my head after being in the bush, ya know what i mean?? But I gotta say, my all time fav is a YEM from 93. Will melt your face, bro.
Pele, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, or maybe some Album Leaf.
king tuff
Wilderness – Vessel States
#1 death vessel, deep in the horchata.
#2 i agree with goat. 93 yem preferably w/ a trampoline jam.
Waylon & Willie
Tool
sandy bull – e pluribus unum.
Dory Previn – Goin Home
Neil Young’s Human Highway
Gotta agree with ‘satisfied’ — Dead or Neil. First pick, ’72 Dead, catching the hissing tape in the middle of a stretched-out Playing In the Band, my mind numb, zoned out to spacey noodling, snapped out of it by the first notes of He’s Gone.
Chicken legs and Sybille Baier’s Colour Green.
winter camping Fleet Foxes- self titled
spring/summer- grateful dead- any
Summer is Blitzen Trapper or Old Crow Medicine Show, and winter is more Sigur Ros and Fleet Foxes for me
Iron & Wine’s The Creek Drank the Cradle is my go to.
Bob dylan bootlegs 1-3
weezer’s blue album
This is a fantastic song!!!! Thanks for sharing.
What GOAT said!
Relatively Clean Rivers
Hello Sunshine
U2
or Johnny Cash
Those are for the way home. On the way out, I listen to the Beatles.