What soap/cream did you use today?

Stirling Sandalwood

8/19/42

Put some water on the puck and immediately dumped it off.  Used a nearly dry synthetic brush and did a quick 10 second load swirling as quickly as i could without making too much of a mess.  Face-lathered for about 3 minutes and used my new favorite toy (Overlander) for an easy/comfortable 3-pass shave. 

Wholly Kaw Entropy Man
Siero Base
Scent Profile: Notes of Tobacco, Leather, Plum, Rum, Hay, Black Pepper, Frankincense and Vetiver
The scent notes start with tobacco but I don't sense that.  What I sense is a very pleasant plum note.

Nothing exciting, but still one of the best long-running shaving creams. Taylors Sandalwood and the boar brush were a perfect setup. Another enjoyable shave!

When you slide your raft down the ramp and into the staging pool below it starts to get real on the Middle Fork of 5he Salmon.  It’s a zoo up top with people inflating and packing food and strapping frames and gear to make sure it stays with them on the trip.  One way to avoid that hubbub is to launch and leave late.  Let everyone get down river and past the closer camps.  So what? Who cares?  A later start let’s the sun come up over the canyon and get a little warmth in your bones.  A later start allows a less frenetic pace and to my mind leads to more enjoyment.  Besides, Trail Flats is only a 7 mile float down stream and if the water level is right, one of the best hot springs on the river.  First Bend rapid is full of wood these days and I like to do the short hike down and make sure I’ll choose the right side of the center rock.  Less than a mile below that is Murphs Hole followed by some no-name warm up waves.  Then the fun begins.  Sulphur Slide followed by Ramshorn, and then Hells Half Mile and you’ll know by then if your rowing game is on point.  Not to far after that and Velvet Falls is there to sneak up on you.  The river looks flat and peaceful and unless you notice Velvet Creek coming in from river right you’ll be in a 7 ft drop into a tough reversal that can bring you right back under the falls and flip your boat!  I love velvet!  After that it’s a quick float down to Trail Flats on river left and man does this spot hold some memories for me.  This is where I caught my first trout on a fly.  It’s also where a few years after I fished the evening with golf legend Jonny Miller.  The smell of supper cooking as Cloyd the camp cook gets ready to feed the guests.  The smell of rubber and rope and the river as I do a last-check to make sure the boats are good for the night.    But the best thing about this camp is the riverside hot springs.  Ah man!  
This soap reminds me of soaking in the Trail Flat Hot Springs.  Surrounded by lupine, columbine, fir and pine, the smell of mossy rock, and that ever present sulphur.  I only wish this scent was in one of the premium bases.  As it is, that hint of sulphur clings to my skin so I get a whiff of it throughout the day and boom, I’m transported right back to the river.