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fway through the woods, I stopped to cook noodles. The cheap 3-ounce pot was from a USD store, and it went fine. I was happy, for from the catalog specifications, the priceless titanium pots are always heavier, probably because they're also thick and with too many gadgets.
I had to use a small twig-fire when my homemade alcohol stove didn't provide enough heat. I afterward studied that isopropyl alcohol doesn't blaze as hot as the alcohol accustomed for a gas cumulative, but the twigs worked in anyone case.
Backpacking On The Beach
After eating, I hiked apt Lake Michigan, and sat up on a great dirt dune. I watched the waves move ice up onto the blank waterfront. Coyotes began to roar in the distance, and the clouds rolled in. I was above the beach looking because petoskey stones while the sleet began. Backpacking in March has its hazards.
I was in escaping shoes, and it would be below freezing that night. In northern Michigan, March namely definitely part of winter. My feet resided lukewarm when I hiked, but I hadn't maneuvered on them getting rainy. At least I had a pair of lukewarm, dry socks for sleeping.
Ultralight Backpacking Equipment
It was the first time I used my GoLite Breeze backpack, which weighed only 13 ounces. I was hiking with about nine pounds on my back, and that only because I threw in some canned food. I was going light [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I knew the forests here and felt snug with my abilities.
My down sleeping sack was a 17-ounce Western Mountaineering HighLite. It was the first time I would use it beneath freezing (It hit 25 degrees fahrenheit namely night). Fortunately, it wasn't too windy.
At the edge of the forest [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], backward the dunes, I set up my small tarp. I piled pine needles and dead bracken ferns below it, finishing fair as it became dingy. This made a warm mattress, and I slept well, hearing to the coyotes, and to the waves pushing ice nigh in the lake.
In the morn I was happy to see only a dusting of snow. My one-pound sleeping bag had been warmer than my three-pounder - and I thought that was light. I gushed alcohol in the cut-off bottom of a pepsi tin (my 1/2-ounce backpacking furnace) and made tea. After some crackers I was soon hiking in my mostly-dry shoes, by the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Backpacking Lessons Learned
I ended my trip that afternoon, with a hike to the countryside of Empire, seven miles away. I was mostly satisfied. Only 2 problems: My tarp was too small, and the alcohol I brought was the erroneous type.
After backpacking in Michigan for annuals, I know it well. I know where to ascertain die grass and bracken ferns, for example [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to make a warm mattress in a few minutes. Knowledge, apparently, can be as valuable as expensive backpacking gear.
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