Post by: William B. on June 12, 2009, 09:30:48 PM
Thank for your time Bill
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Post by: alecvg on June 12, 2009, 11:52:53 PM
http://store.colemans.com/cart/mortar-ammo-can-m120m121-p-1337.html
These are what we use to store supplies out in our camp year-round.
Post by: tonymoe on June 13, 2009, 08:20:48 PM
Instead of taking all the heavy cooking and cleaning stuff, I would suggest smaller gear as a jetboil, or packable stove and pot. Then just eat mountain house meals. If you save a MH bag you can use it for top ramen, instant idahoan potatoes, lipton rice bags.
Post by: JBR on June 17, 2009, 09:22:53 PM
As for gear, the two biggest needs we had were water and firewood. Bring TWO good wood cutting saws (in case one breaks) and one sharp ax or hatchet (also a good pair of leather gloves for the wood cutting). We seemed to always be scavaging firewood and those items were necessities obviously. The other thing is water. All three of us had individual water filter pumps and by day 3 or 4, all had crapped out! Murphy's law. We'd spend 30 minutes trying to pump water into a collapsible canvass bucket to carry back up to camp with cramping forearms and finally, we got nothing. We couldn't believe it. With no backup filtration/purification system we ended up having to boil all our drinking water, which is fine, but can be a pain.
Next time, I would bring a large capacity water filtration bag that uses gravity to filter the 'bad water' down into the 'good water', so all you have to do is scoop up water and hang it in camp. Having purification tabs and/or other filters as backup is strongly recommended.
A lightweight silnylon tarp to make a roof over an outdoor cooking area was important, with a small folding table to put dishes, food, laterns and the like on. One little table for the 3 of us was fine as we didn't eat at it, but we just put stuf on it. Folding camp chairs were a must and would be moved from inside the tent to outside at the campfire at different times. You have to have somewhere to sit down and rest and stare at the campfire and stars, or what's the point.
Those were the main items that were 'luxury camp items' for us made availabe to us with pack mules vs backpacking. A few other small items were two laterns, more food options, spotting scopes, extra clothes, fishing rods and my son's single shot 20 ga for grouse. I'm sure others will have some great ideas as well, but those items are what stick out in my mind, and all of it was easily packed in those hard plastic (weatherproof) boxes on the mules (including the table and chairs). Good luck and have a blast.
Jim
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