Mockturtle

So what kind of sleeping bag do you carry day hiking? And what kind of shell?


I like to put the weight into what I call "Moving clothes" - clothes that let me ski into the teeth of the blizzard - or to keep on moving where others should have already dug in. Course I like to ski backpack alone at night in cougar country when its snowing and then pitch my tent. So what I do for fun isn't that different from from what some consider a fool hardy night time retreat from disaster. About all I can imagine going wrong is an injury or a broken ski, and both are unlikely. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I like to tunnel into fir holes in california but I've read some scary stories about being trapped in them here in Oregon, so I have been cautious. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> There are such all covering forests here that starting a large fire would be possible with few or no tools. The big fire concept seems to be a "northern concept". Perhaps an idea based on experience with survival allows people to ignore the impact. When they start fires in the forest to burn the underbrush it kinda says ' Hey I can throw burning materials here or even start a fire and walk away from it if I want to. Nobody worries about trees with burned brown needles along the road - they'll fall out next season. The trees are so thick above us that the forest service clears out 9 of 10 trees some places to make a healthier forest. We have stumps in our healthy forests, they are not primal..Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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