Keith
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Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
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Post by Keith on Feb 17, 2020 15:05:45 GMT -7
Thank you Spence, appreciated. Keith.
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ewoaf
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Post by ewoaf on Feb 18, 2020 9:31:20 GMT -7
Did anyone say huge market wallet stuffed with straw/ leaves
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Keith
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Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
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Post by Keith on Feb 18, 2020 14:22:48 GMT -7
All I carry for bedding is a pure wool blanket. I lay a bed of sticks down for a bed, & add a layer of dead ferns if there are any available. I lay my blanket on this. In my one blanket I carry: a wool waistcoat, a woolen shirt, & a wool Monmouth cap. These I put on over my other clothing at night in winter.
Keith.
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Post by Black Hand on Feb 21, 2020 5:50:33 GMT -7
I carry 1 or 2 wool blankets, depending on the season. In the winter, extra clothes and a pair of winter moccasins are rolled up inside a blanket with an 8x8 canvas tarp wrapped around the outside (cheap drop-cloth, see my comment below). As alluded to previously, the tarp has been used primarily as ground-cloth to keep pitch, needles and other debris off my blankets and occasionally used as a shelter (when actively raining or snowing). If you must, get a piece of good canvas (not the box store painter tarps - loose weave and mediocre material) and set it up at a steep angle - it will shed water even when untreated but might mist a little until the fibers swell. I have 2 Sherwin Williams tarps I bought 12-15 years ago (used as the awning in front of my tent or as a pup-tent/shelter by themselves at drive-up events) that have been through some major downpours, but others have said their current offerings aren't as good.
Long story short, a shelter isn't really all that essential and adds extra weight that may be unnecessary. A shelter does seem to provide a psychological boost more than anything else - makes you feel like you "own" a piece of the forest and there is an unconscious feeling of safety that goes along with it, even though it is more imagined than reality (in my estimation).
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