>>2282514>Lewis and Clark considered their supply of whiskey, rum, and wine- mostly whiskey- to be indispensible and when forced to abandon or cache supplies during their journey, they kept the alcohol and buried their cooking pots, hardtack, and ammunition>pioneers carried whiskey westward with them as they went, using it for recreation, anesthetic, antiseptic, lantern fuel, and trade goods>British army officers and gentlemen on safari carried portable bars so they could get drunk in the middle of the wilderness while carrying huge fucking elephant guns and yelling at the darkies not to drop their luggage as they crossed the riverAlcohol has plenty to do with the outdoors, particularly if you're doing things the old-fashioned way, like a proper gentleman.
>he doesn't relax by the fire in a canvas campaign chair, smoking a pipe and drinking a glass of scotch or cognac, reading a good book, before going to bed early so he can awaken at sunrise and shoot something 