Roan Mountain Hang

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:30

I might be hauling some up from the cars ! Kindling and a night log ! I'll bring my saw too !

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:33

Dinner I'm doing Pac it Gourmet and lunch I'm doing hot instant soup with ramen as backup!

**wisenber** · 12-31-2012, 13:38

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

I might be hauling some up from the cars ! Kindling and a night log ! I'll bring my saw too !

Please be sure your wood isn't from a quarantine area. The Smokeys already have critters going after ash, hemlocks and others. I cannot bring any from Knoxville as we are quarantined.

The tricky part with that firepit is the moisture. If you don't build a platform first, the moisture will keep putting your fire out all day.

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:40

I agree no bug wood! I have some sweet fire starters too! Our last trip up there was very wet ! My screen name should be the Fire whisperer!

**wisenber** · 12-31-2012, 13:41

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

Dinner I'm doing Pac it Gourmet and lunch I'm doing hot instant soup with ramen as backup!

I'll probably stop at Bob's Dairyland for Friday dinner. There's nothing quite as good as a nice 32 ounce frozen milkshake before starting a nighttime hike in the winter.

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:43

I'll make the kindling out of wood in my wood shop! And I have some treated logs from my house ! No bugs !

**wisenber** · 12-31-2012, 13:43

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

I might be hauling some up from the cars ! Kindling and a night log ! I'll bring my saw too !

I really need to get a cheap small tarp to drag firewood in the winter.

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:44

Whooo buddy! You can only get warmer after that!

**Moondoggy** · 12-31-2012, 13:53

If there is enough snow a cheap sled from Walmart would work and you could hike the road up and cut over to the side trail! I'm pondering this move myself! Plus sleigh riding down the road would be insane!

**wisenber** · 12-31-2012, 14:11

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

If there is enough snow a cheap sled from Walmart would work and you could hike the road up and cut over to the side trail! I'm pondering this move myself! Plus sleigh riding down the road would be insane!

From past personal experience, you do NOT want to try to keep a pulk sled balanced behind you on the AT. Gravity and off camber trails do not agree with sleds. Dragging a tarp for a couple of hundred feet might work, but pulling a pulk for a couple of miles is a whole different ball game.

I'm also thinking that one of the cheap 8X6 silver tarps would make a good windbreak for the firepit. The wind always comes in from the NW right in front of the shelter and over the firepit in th evenings.