Cold Splinters Survey: Getting Back To Your Car
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?
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 under Music/Movies/Books, Uncategorized.
Comments: 31
Comments
Comment from Kevin Lardner
Time: March 3, 2010, 8:16 pm
dusk at cubist castle
Comment from C.Hess
Time: March 3, 2010, 8:27 pm
After hiking in SoCal= “Rock and Soul Pt.II” – Hall and Oates
After hiking Desolation Wilderness, NorCal = “Victorialand” – Cocteau Twins
Comment from Eric
Time: March 3, 2010, 8:27 pm
This is a great idea, but a tough call. I’m gonna have to go with Electric Wizard.
Comment from todd
Time: March 3, 2010, 8:36 pm
how can it not be springsteen. it has to be bruuuuuce. born in the usa.
Comment from hav
Time: March 3, 2010, 8:48 pm
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…
Comment from Ryan
Time: March 3, 2010, 9:35 pm
Something way more obscure than Kevin.
Comment from DA
Time: March 3, 2010, 9:36 pm
Comment from momoko
Time: March 3, 2010, 10:00 pm
Fleet Foxes during the sleepy drive home would be lovely
Comment from satisfied75
Time: March 4, 2010, 1:37 am
e-z. the dead or neil.
Comment from akil
Time: March 4, 2010, 5:34 am
espers – travel mountains
Comment from Goat
Time: March 4, 2010, 7:32 am
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.
Comment from Angelo R.
Time: March 4, 2010, 9:07 am
Pele, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, or maybe some Album Leaf.
Comment from roedood
Time: March 4, 2010, 9:15 am
king tuff
Comment from m
Time: March 4, 2010, 9:39 am
Wilderness – Vessel States
Comment from Joelle
Time: March 4, 2010, 9:56 am
#1 death vessel, deep in the horchata.
#2 i agree with goat. 93 yem preferably w/ a trampoline jam.
Comment from Jeff S.
Time: March 4, 2010, 11:07 am
Waylon & Willie
Comment from Danny Carey
Time: March 4, 2010, 11:26 am
Tool
Comment from mark
Time: March 4, 2010, 11:51 am
sandy bull – e pluribus unum.
Comment from Jesse
Time: March 4, 2010, 12:05 pm
Dory Previn – Goin Home
Comment from Jon
Time: March 4, 2010, 3:09 pm
Neil Young’s Human Highway
Comment from Samuel
Time: March 4, 2010, 3:19 pm
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.
Comment from Mr. Turley
Time: March 4, 2010, 3:38 pm
Chicken legs and Sybille Baier’s Colour Green.
Comment from collin
Time: March 4, 2010, 4:25 pm
winter camping Fleet Foxes- self titled
spring/summer- grateful dead- any
Comment from Noah
Time: March 4, 2010, 7:51 pm
Summer is Blitzen Trapper or Old Crow Medicine Show, and winter is more Sigur Ros and Fleet Foxes for me
Comment from Dan
Time: March 4, 2010, 7:53 pm
Iron & Wine’s The Creek Drank the Cradle is my go to.
Comment from L
Time: March 5, 2010, 8:28 am
Bob dylan bootlegs 1-3
Comment from mathias
Time: March 6, 2010, 11:54 am
weezer’s blue album
Comment from The Saunterer
Time: March 7, 2010, 5:40 pm
This is a fantastic song!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Comment from B Mic Jee
Time: March 8, 2010, 8:55 am
What GOAT said!
Comment from yvonne
Time: March 8, 2010, 5:28 pm
Relatively Clean Rivers
Hello Sunshine
Comment from Matt
Time: March 9, 2010, 7:18 pm
U2
or Johnny Cash
Those are for the way home. On the way out, I listen to the Beatles.
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