Fun Camping weekend in Michigan

KGD you brought back a lot of memories for me. I spent 30 years down around the Ann Arbor Chelsea area. Then got tired of civilization and moved 350 miles north....lol.Looks like a great time.
Mike
 
Where abouts did you get the fatwood? I am right around the corner from Island lake and shoot there once in a while.

Thanks for the pics.
Jason
 
Great pictures, k. Glad you had a good time. The guy doing the hand drill, is that George Hedgepeth?

Doc
 
Great post and awesome pictures! That Trangia stove looks like a sweet piece of gear:cool:
 
Great pictures of what looked like a great time.
Really need to find my way up there some day.
 
Looks like a great get-together:thumbup: I made an atlatl when I was 12-13 years old and got pretty good at it, I need to get out and try it again!

Glad you're still enjoying that knife!
 
Very very cool weekend Ken! Thanks for sharing the experience! I have heard good things of Geaorge Hedgepath and his school! Sounds like they were accurate!
 
Looks like lots of fun! Makes me eager for this summer's stone tool/atlatl event in Letchworth State Park.
 
wow.. awesome pics Ken.. looks like an action packed weekend.. thanks for all the pics...:thumbup:
 
Looks like a blast,gonna have to make a few of those spear throwers...great ideas thanks for the photos.
 
great pics, thats pretty cool, where everyone can come down and try stuff.
Also could that fruit be a passionfruit? not sure if they grow in that area, but it looks like a passionfruit to me
 
Thats great, but I'm a bit disappointed......I only live about 20 minutes away from Island Lake and would have come, but I didn't know!
Is there a site that has some times and places for these guys?
 
Thanks for all the positive responses guys!

Jason M D. said:
Where abouts did you get the fatwood? I am right around the corner from Island lake and shoot there once in a while.
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The trails between the Rustic cabins and Island Lake are full of red pine and scotch pines that are high resin producing trees. Look for old stumps on the forest floor and dig into them. Mistwalker has an excellent tutorial demonstrating how to locate fatwood stumps in this forum. Do a search on his thread using BF's search or the free google search engine.

futurencswat said:
Great post and awesome pictures! That Trangia stove looks like a sweet piece of gear:cool:
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I've been using the burner for a few months now on loan from Magnussen and really like how the burner operates. When I went to buy my own, I opted to get one of the full kits rather than just the burner to see how it would work. It is more bulky than my nesting set-up, but I am very impressed with the 27 series stove set up as a unit. It has everything I need to supply cooking needs for myself and my wife on a weekend camping trip and it all stores into a respectable package. There is a lighter, hardened aluminum one that costs twice as much and shaves off about 30% of the weight. It wasn't worth the price difference for me, but it might be for long distance folks. If I am going to go long distance than I will just take the burner, a small cook stand and my nesting pots.

The base price of the unit cost me $60 and included the burner, bottom burner cover and top cover, tea pot, two sauce pots, frying pan and grabber. Works very well together. I used up about 10 oz of fuel for the entire weekend of cooking.

JCK said:
great pics, thats pretty cool, where everyone can come down and try stuff.
Also could that fruit be a passionfruit? not sure if they grow in that area, but it looks like a passionfruit to me
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Thanks, I'll look up passionfruit. Good to know!

markhait said:
Thats great, but I'm a bit disappointed......I only live about 20 minutes away from Island Lake and would have come, but I didn't know!
Is there a site that has some times and places for these guys?
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There is going to be a bushcrafter meeting there on the weekend of May 28-30th. I don't want to be accused of forum plugging, but there is another place with the word bushcraft and the word USA in the name that the group of folks who organize this belong to.
 
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