Hi all,
Thanks again for the kind comments on my Friday morning deal
Caine, I tell ya, These neck gators called the SAS headover that I get from Action gear .com are the best ones I have used. I really like them.
Loosearrow, are you in Kansas? I can alsmost throw a stone to the Neb. Kansas boarder. I tell ya these last 2 summer in my area for the bugs have been unreal. I bet I got a whole 3 bites this year. I mean there were some but nothing like I have seen in the past. Last year was just about the same.
Since I also have a tree cutting service I am out in the timber alot with that and I was just suprized at the last few years how the bugs have seemed less than in other years.
Good deal with your grandson I hope you are able to get out there and cook some food up to.
As to the pot I am using to heat up my water it is a Snow Peak SOLO cooking set. It has pot , a lid for the pot and then comes with a smaller cup that all nest together. It is the coolest set up I think. Ok for me that is lol.
I just love it also I can put my steel nalgene water bottle in the big pot and then I just put the small cup either on the bottom of the hole thing or the top. I have several of them SOLO kits and mix and match the small cups. I always carry 2 of the smaller cups with me.
6shooter, sure it is. if I am doing this just form me.
1 cup of flower
1 to 2 table spoons sugar. I use evaporated cane juice. it is non bleached and just more like true sugar. I really like it.
1 teaspoon of baking powder NOT baking soda
A pinch of salt and I mean just a 2 finger pinch. that is what I use anyways.
A hand full of cranberries or rasins what ever other small fruit you like.
I have not put any nuts in mine yet but that is a option too.
1 table spoon of butter I like a little extra butter flavor in my bannock.
and then you will need 1/8 of a cup of water or so.
mix all the dry ingredents together.
Then when you get to your campfire or on your stove where ever you want cook it at.
Heat the pan up some to mix up the better and water not freaking boiling lol. just heat it up so the butter belts in with the water.
Then mix in the dry ingredents in with the water and butter in the same pan and then once it is all doughy and mixed up just spread it out in the same pan like in the pic I posted.
BUT
I am getting ready to head down again today, and do that bannock over the fire again but I am going to make smaller patties and then make sure my Spatula in my pack lol yesterday I forgot and had to use my spork. It did not work like I would have liked lol
If you want to see the full recipe go over to Ron Hoods forum and look in the part that says wilderness cooking. Grizzly Dave posted the full recipe in there under the thread I started about my first day of bannock making or something like that. Grizzly Dave got this recipe from a Old Cree Indian women in Canada where he lived as a young man.
Dipbait, LOL I have been told many times I never grew up lol. Yep being able to have place in the woods or in your back yard is a neat thing to have.
When I first got out of the Marines about 20 years back I came home and found some work about 50 miles west of where I am at now. I lived in a real small town. I lived on the outskirts of it and one day went for a walk down the road. about a quater mile out side of town there was little bridge well I decided to take a look under that bridge and found that I could make a little get away for me. I cut some wood up and travled up and down that creek some and was very careful and quiet NO chopping but hand sawing and stuff like that. Well for 3 months I would head down there on friday and sat nights for a little campfire and cooking. I had to keep my firs very small but it was still a fire lol. I had one car stop one time and heard people up there talking about seeing lights under the bridge. but I was able to put it out quick and then they left. I could see the car lights comming and had time to put it out quick enough. No body over came down there when Iwas there so it worked out lol.
haroopn41, Thanks, Yea I try to keep it picked up. I have 3 of these places one has a little metal tin shed that my nephew and I built up years back. and then one little campsite abouot 4 miles from from the homestead here. I get to that one a few times a year. I just put up a tarp leanto and then i pretty much it nothing real fancy lol. I will get a few pics posted up of it. I did a deal last winter as if I had gone for a walk and got lost and had to stay the night out with the cloths on my back and my pack. I made a space blanket shelter / leanto and then stayed warm with my fire and what cloths I had on. I did not sleep much that night lol I just dozed and had to keep wood on the fire to stay warm.
here is that space blanket shelter Harpoon41
This pic was taken about 3:30 AM I had to get up and pee and took this pic
I had to collect some dreid grass for my insulation to lay on it.
The next day my nephew came out to see my little survival camp site and I had him take this pic of me. this is how
I laid in there the night before. It really was not that bad. My legs got a little chilly at times , but then I would just lay on my back and raise them up and they got nice and warm from the fire. I did not wear my coat I just used it as a blanket. I think this works out better I could feel the heat from the fire this way better when my coat was opened some like it is.
this is how I would warm my back up to I just did not lay in one position
I took this pic of myself when I was under/ in my space blanket survival shelter. this pic was takena bout 4:30 am
I just put the camera behind me and took that pic lol. Some self portrait huh lol
Well all again thanks for the comments on my thread here and Hope you all get out in the woods this weekend.
Bryan
(no woods close by that i can do that in )
