Hi all,
Well as some of you guys and gals may remember I have been putting together a bug out bag. Today being the first sunny day in more than a week I decided to go test some of my toys. I removed my two nalgene canteens and replaced them with a hydration system to test it out in the North Face Recon pack. Here is my opinion, though it was nice just to take a swig off the tube at my shoulder as I hiked it was clumsy to fill and took forever to fill a pot with the tube when I stopped for lunch. I'm going back to my two canteens.
I also got to try out a new backpacking grill i bought, it's about 12"x6" with fold down legs about 6" tall all chromed metal nothing fancy I think I paid 6 bucks for it. It worked great! No trying how to figure away to suspend my pot over the fire and with room for at least 2 cooking pots. I boiled about a cup of water over a fire you could have coverd with a hat in about 5 mins and tossed in some beef jerky (testing the boiled beef jerky thing) it made a very watery broth that tasted pretty good the chunks of beef jerky tasted like stew meat. Since it was about 65F degrees today I sure didn't need a fire or the warm beef jerky stew but I wanted to try the grill and had the jerky and water with me. And now I have a couple more little bits of knowledge to draw from when I need to.
I know I'm new at some of this just as I bet there are a few of you out there that are also new to bob's and bushcraft or what have you. One piece of advice I will toss out there is take your equipment out and use it, weed out the gear that doesn't preform as well as you want it to and find the gear that does. I'm just thinking I would rather work the bugs out on day hikes rather than during an emergency situation.
Well as some of you guys and gals may remember I have been putting together a bug out bag. Today being the first sunny day in more than a week I decided to go test some of my toys. I removed my two nalgene canteens and replaced them with a hydration system to test it out in the North Face Recon pack. Here is my opinion, though it was nice just to take a swig off the tube at my shoulder as I hiked it was clumsy to fill and took forever to fill a pot with the tube when I stopped for lunch. I'm going back to my two canteens.
I also got to try out a new backpacking grill i bought, it's about 12"x6" with fold down legs about 6" tall all chromed metal nothing fancy I think I paid 6 bucks for it. It worked great! No trying how to figure away to suspend my pot over the fire and with room for at least 2 cooking pots. I boiled about a cup of water over a fire you could have coverd with a hat in about 5 mins and tossed in some beef jerky (testing the boiled beef jerky thing) it made a very watery broth that tasted pretty good the chunks of beef jerky tasted like stew meat. Since it was about 65F degrees today I sure didn't need a fire or the warm beef jerky stew but I wanted to try the grill and had the jerky and water with me. And now I have a couple more little bits of knowledge to draw from when I need to.
I know I'm new at some of this just as I bet there are a few of you out there that are also new to bob's and bushcraft or what have you. One piece of advice I will toss out there is take your equipment out and use it, weed out the gear that doesn't preform as well as you want it to and find the gear that does. I'm just thinking I would rather work the bugs out on day hikes rather than during an emergency situation.
