Favorite backcountry beverage

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Favorite backcountry beverage

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Which do you prefer? Plain water, crystal light , tang , green tea or vitamin c powder? Any suggestions are welcome. Im not into sugar free.
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It's a wonderful thing to reach the top of a pass and find some snow. I love to fill a water bottle with snow and then pour a packet of pink lemonade into the bottle and add water. That is about as good as it gets for me.
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In the following order of preference:

- beer
- bourbon
- coffee
- water
- tea
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Water, coffee
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water and coffee
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Water
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Cool mountain water, and tea at dinner.
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OR's cocktails.
Coffee in the morning.
Water is kind of a given.
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Tea or lemonade.
Sometimes, a nice red wine.
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AT wrote:
Sometimes, a nice red wine.
Would that be Pinot, Merlot, Zin, Syrah, or Cab AT?
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