Got more questions than answers.
I have got to blame YouTube, Shug, Medicjimr and others for getting me back into camping, hiking and etc. As I watch each video or read each tale/post on the forum, I am drawn deeper into the addiction again. After 30 some years, I thought I had kicked the habit, guess not!
Now I have started to planning to go wandering. Thanks all...with friends like you folks I will be in the poor outhouse again. Since economics is a matter of great significance, I will just have to plan on doing a wee bit of work to get what I need.
I dug out my "single burner Coleman stove" still had fuel in it after sitting in its container for the last decade plus. That will have to be cleaned & retrofitted.
Have started to pick up used beer cans, am on the look out for a aluminum bud bottle. I probably will have to drink the contents...like that is a hard decision.
Will have to steal an empty catfood can or two to make myself an alcohol stove - the cats will understand. Or perhaps just visit Ebuster for a bid on a stove..who knows...ME don't. Looked at Ebuster - prices are vastly different...mmmmmmmmm.
Cookkit is a choice of 24-ounce "Progresso" soup can, a 46-ounce Tomato juice can or using my military canteen cup. Probably choose my canteen cup. Time to haunt the local stores like Goodwill or Salvation Army or Ebuster...
Just visited ebay, looking for an opinion on GSI bugaboo or the Microdualist.
My down sleeping bag rated to "0", it has been in the closet for the last several years, that has come out and hung out to air...time to research how to bring back a bag - so I have work ahead.
I have a few tarps both those "blue" ones and nylon - looked at the nylon yesterday - probably will have to recoat them - have one that should work well as a tarp for the hammock - 8'x12'. Looking to try to work in a couple 5'x7' tarps in for the doors, but that will take a thought or two.
If I understand matter right, a hammock is simply a rectangle of material gathered together and hung between a couple of supports. Right or am I wrong? So a DYI hammock is in the mindworks - mmmmmmmmmm am I planning to much? The Shug would know...Ha.
My pack would be an old Jansport external, rather go with a internal frame or frameless one...that will have to be saved for. Any suggestions, folks? I know Shug sweats at his Ohm pack. That might do..
Another object of discussion - water purification - I use to use iodine crystals. Looking for opinions about what's what this century.
And that brings to an end my current trails of thought. If anyone has any suggestion, please don't hesitate to share them...
I can never be a purist, for example I will always carry a fixed blade knife, folks call them bushcraft knives these days - I call them "knives". Another example, I can't see spending $$ for a titanium spoon when I can buy one from a thrift store for less than a dollar. Oh, the spoons from "Wendy's" & her relatives work just fine - but melt or break...
I have a "Japanese soup spoon" about 5-inches long and it is extremely light weight. That works for me.
Thanks u'all
Pat
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