Passing time in camp?

I like to sit by the fire and, well, play with fire.

I also have a Kindle that works great as a lighter alternative to a book.
 
jw2n said:
I have been looking for dehydrated beer, but no luck so far.
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Ive seen dehydrated beer before, i just cant remember where. I recall my friend telling me, that coupled with a canned cheeseburger you'd be all set. Ill see if i can find it again.
 
Make spears.
Cook some food (it's the fire that makes it good:thumbup:).
Batonning wood, not because you have to, but because you can.
Flirt with trees.

The possibilities are endless!
 
have a nice drink, and watch the fire and maybe take some nighttime pics with the camera....
 
I,m with ya jw2n.

Now, I have my Ipod and a book.

I just started sleeping in a hammock, so star gazing fits in there as well.
 
I've done a couple of late-fall solo hunting trips, and I was bored nearly to death. The first time, I had the forethought to bring a book. But I vastly underestimated the amount of reading someone can do while holed up in a sleeping bag inside a tent for four or five hours a night until bedtime. I finished the book partway through the second evening and shortened the trip due to immense boredom.

On the second trip, I brought a longer book AND a multiband portable radio. That helped, but the long hours of dark and cold were still very boring. I often wonder how the old-time furtrappers were able to spend the entire winter alone in the wilderness.

I think the best way to pass the time on a winter camp-out is with good company. And finding someone that likes to camp out in the fall or winter is probably difficult or impossible, depending on where you live.

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
I like to solo and am often very tired from fly fishing or shooting the bow. So just a little redneck TV, a snifter of rum, and the bag for me.
 
PropThePolecat said:
Ive seen dehydrated beer before, i just cant remember where. I recall my friend telling me, that coupled with a canned cheeseburger you'd be all set. Ill see if i can find it again.
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I saw powdered red wine and pina colatas in a Touratech catalog once (a German, motorcycle travel gear company).
 
Just once, but memorably, I spent the night making a small chair, more a foot-stool really, using an awl and whittling peg supports. Made for corregated butts. :)

Until I started bringing a light headlamp with which to read, hours passed slowly.
 
Alcohol, Whittlin, Splitting Wood, Checking Gear for the next day, Bible, Solitair, Books, Magazines, Cigarettes, listening, playing with the fire
 
I just finished reading the brian saga by gary paulsen(hatchet, the river, brian's winter, brian's return, brian's hunt). granted, they are aimed toward about the 5th-6th grade level, but they are great short reads dealing with survival and the pull of the wilderness. they whole series took me about 7 hours to read, so alone it wouldn't do much more than one night, but in one of the books, someone suggests to the main character that he take shakespear's plays with him and read them out loud.
 
Invest a little cash in an Amazon Kindle and have your whole library with you.
 
Fire-watching, reading and prayer. Not necessarily in that order. If there's alot of snow, i like to make an elaborate cooking station as well as form a nice tent "platform" for sleeping on.

Otherwise, if my camp spot is on a mountain and/or above treeline or anywhere in the open, i like to star-gaze and pray. Sometimes (ok, most of the time) i'll sing some song that's on my mind - kinda like in the shower - just never loudly!!!!

If i'm gonna do some reading, i tend to make copies of the pages i'm planning on reading, though i usually only read my bible - otherwise i would buzz through a typical book and they're too heavy for me to justify in my winter pack.
 
PDE said:
Invest a little cash in an Amazon Kindle and have your whole library with you.
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I was thinking about this thread last night, and how on 2-3 day trips, a Kindle might be something good for me to take.
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask, but I've got one coming for Christmas, and was wondering if you can download topo maps, an atlas, and stuff like that to it. Guess I need to read some reviews and learn more about it than the fact it holds a bunch of books...
Knowing me, I'll break it, or be afraid of breaking it, and not take it anyway:rolleyes:
 
I generaly set up camp kinda late since hanging my hammock only takes a few minutes.

Then I cook dinner which is usualy pretty quick as well.

Then I lay back in the hammock with my headlamp and read.
 
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