Trip report - solo overnighter & some gear

[adaman04]

Some of those pics are incredible.

And honestly, I love vids of people’s trips. In fact, I might shoot some video on my next one. If people don’t like it, screw ‘em!

 

[tonym]

Make a square, 36" wide by 60" long.

Umm, I'm no college professor or anything, but wouldn't that be a rectangle???

 

[kgd]

does it work better for you having the crossbar on the chair?

Hard to say Jay. Joe likes the feel of the crossbar, but he wouldn't let me sit in his one made out of a tent fly for fear of my fat butt sliding right through it. There is a little bit of an art to finding a great cross bar piece though. It needs to be strong enough to support your leg weight, but it also works a bit better if there is a little bit of flex to it. Green wood works the best in this application, but there aren't many places we can cut greenwood ethically, and in this trip, it wasn't one of those places.

I guess the only way to find out is to try it and see if you like it. One reason I decided to do it this way is that I started with a piece of fabric without any existing grommets or tabs. So it was easier to engineer a flap and sew the loop then to make a tough enough tab or go out and buy a grommet tool. Maybe next time I'll just try tying out the sides using a monkey fist to see how it rates in comfort.

Some of those pics are incredible.

And honestly, I love vids of people’s trips. In fact, I might shoot some video on my next one. If people don’t like it, screw ‘em!

Have at it Adam. Making vids are a lot of fun. They are more challenging to construct than composing a picture, at least in terms of keeping viewer interest. It helps to organize your thoughts ahead of time to think of the elements to include in the video and pre-think out what you want to say. I never script mine, but on this trip I wrote a little grocery list of things I thought would be useful to catch on film and why. Other times you just need to go with the flow. Anyhow its fun, and more vids out there for us to watch allows us all to live vicariously through others experiences!

Umm, I'm no college professor or anything, but wouldn't that be a rectangle???

You are entirely correct Tonym, my apologies. Start by cutting out an Erectangle.....

 

[Rick Marchand]

Great deer shots Ken. Man, I need to get out again.

 

[PropThePolecat]

I enjoyed your post/pics Ken :thumbup:

A little tip to keeping warm when sleeping on the ground, especially if you suspect its going to get abit colder than your liking....

Dig a small shallow pit underneath your sleeping pad and place some relatively medium/largish rocks around your fire. Throughout the night the fire will heat up the rocks and when its time to sleep, you roll the rocks into the pit and cover them with soil.

Then you place your pad on top of the now covered pit and hit the sack. The heat radiating from the rocks lasts a long time and warms up the entire soil/pad underneath you.