It's to help prevent the tops from freezing onto the bottles in the cold.
Hey Lazerboy,
CanadianWolf got it for you.
If the water was not in the fridge, the were insulated in cozies, socks, or backpacks, and kept upside down there too.
Can you provide a better understanding of how the tipi is set up? Poles? What is the floor like? What mat did you use?
Hey Steve,
Wow, that is a lot of questions
I will try and answer.
The tipi sets up extremely easy. There is only one pole, the center pole. The tipi comes with a pre-measured rope (if you lose it, you can use the center pole). You put a stake in the ground where the middle of the tipi should be. You hook the pre-measured rope up and walk in a circle to drive 8 stakes in the ground. Not full in, because you need to hook the tipi up. Next, you unroll the tipi and start hooking up the attachment rings to the stakes. Then you can finish driving the stakes in the ground. The ground straps that are hooked to the pegs should be loosened up all the way from your previous use. Then, you go under the tipi and insert the center pole into the holder and push the tipi up. Next, you walk around the outside and tighten down the peg straps. That is enough to get you going and is very quick and easy. From there there are a couple buttoning up steps.
There are several options you can chose when setting up:
- No Floor. So bare ground in the summer.
- Floor, like I have. The floor and tipi edge overlap, and the floor toggles in. It has a zipper that runs all the way from the pole to the door, and 3 more zippers that zip outward around the pole for opening up for fire/stove,etc.
- Inner tipi : You can get a liner to go inside the tipi. This helps ensure less bugs (although I have never had a problem) and helps with condensation with the coated fabrics (mine is not coated, but impregnated canvas-mix) while doing lots of cooking inside.
There is some more of my write up on it
here at my old blog.
In my "backpacking" setup, I had the same setup that was used in my last cold weather camping thread. An REI Trekker pad and a Big Agnes with primaloft.
However, we were able to sled most of our "car camping" gear in, and I just used a single pad, which was the REI Camp Bed 3.5. 3.5 inch thick, super comfy warm pad.
No sorry. I tend to get busy "working" and don't get many knife or axe shots.
I will try and remember the meals:
- Turkey cheese brats, vegetables and rice.
- Blueberry pancakes and bacon.
- Pita sandwiches (turkey and salami), cheese and snacks.
- Tacos with home-dried meat, salsa, cheese, sour cream, and rice.
- Oatmeal with chopped up dried fruit.
- Steak and vegetables.
- Blueberry pancakes and bacon again.
- Same pita sandwich lunch combo.
Lots of snacks:
- Mini peanut butter cups, homemade trail mix, dried apples, bananas and apricots.
What did you use to start the fires?
I found a downed birch and peeled bark from it. Everything else (to get it going) came from the inside (so that it was dry) from fallen but still suspended pine. Cut it up, chop it to size, split it really small, then started making small shavings for kindling, feather sticks for the next stage, then small split pieces for the next. Once coals were established, it didn't matter too much.
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that place is amazing.. i love the frozen waterfalls...:thumbup:
