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Waldmensch70
1 year ago

you’ve spent the night alone in the forest.

Yeah, it’s a lot. And always legal (with permission of the property).

Waldmensch70
1 year ago
Reply to  jve46

With different equipment, you want to try different things.

  • From camp to second as hunter in the great area of a known for an extended hunting weekend in a heated tipi in winter
  • over a tarp at snow and ice at -14° and sharp wind at the edge of the forest alone
  • up to a self-built shelter (on the way in a small group including the forest owner, where everyone has built their own sloping roof for themselves made of pine wood / branches) in autumn with strong rain under which you have stayed.

These are just a few examples.

Equipment was from the small 1-man tent with isomat and sleeping bag over tarp with isomat and sleeping bag to the above-mentioned heated tipi with tent oven and several meters diameter and standing height.

Sleeping bags: In winter a thick down sleeping bag with membrane outer skin that keeps up to -16 comfortable, in summer a three-year-old plastic fiber sleeping bag that works up to about 0°C.

Isomatten: One of two Therm-A-Rest mats with foam core (a thinner, lighter, more compact to pack and in winter with longer stays by car a thicker one needs more space but even better isolated).

Cooker: Multifuel burner from Optimus. With gasoline in winter and in summer also with gas.

Clothing: In winter weatherproof outer layer (pants + jacket made of densely woven cotton mixed fabric, waxed at the distinctive spots), insulation layer (e.g. thick jacket made of alpaca wool), merino underwear, thick wool socks… In summer, correspondingly thinner wool socks in hiking boots, normal cotton underwear (T-shirt, slip), the weatherproof outer layer (pants + jacket made of densely woven cotton blend fabric), possibly a shirt made of stable material or similar to the middle layer. When hunting, everything is in a low-speed (e.g. Loden-Hoodie) as well as a set of replacement underwear and socks.

Equipment: wristwatch, lighter, a firesteel as a backup, flashlight with wide-ranging bundled beam, headlamp with diffuse light cone, weatherproof pen and small notebook, multifunction pocket knife, fixed outdoor / hunting knife, in hunting of course the whole equipment you need for this.

food supply in the form of welded noodle ready meals, water in water bottles (if on foot) or a water bottle at the man as well as a drinking water canister in the car, cup, spoiler, pot, eating bowl. If water was nearby (e.g. a lake) then like a water filter, which makes it easier, you don’t have to boil off the water forcibly.

Puh, I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

Pfadkind
1 year ago

But not with at least two other people often. I love it when the first sun rays wake me through the canopy.

healey
1 year ago

No, I don’t, and I don’t.

BackupBone
1 year ago

The last time was on the property of the father-in-law. I also tested new equipment.

Helikon-Tex Supertarp, One Tigris Single Mesh Tent, Thermarest Ridge Rest and n Snugpak Navigator. Had a little 5-10 degrees outside. The Snugpak was too cold. From below it was warm and comfortable. I had expected it differently

Was once again amazing how loud this becomes at night. It speeds up everywhere.

Huxxx
1 year ago

Yes, I did, but involuntary, because I had completely run out and the darkness broke in. Without cell phone no chance to get help.
Since it was a not too cold, dry, but in the forest dark autumn night and I also had a warm parka, I leaned half-seated on a tree and even slept a bit.
But not long, because the forest lives, razing and noises everywhere. I don’t know what crawls around me, but I wasn’t afraid.

In the morning twilight I quickly found the orientation again and that was it.

ItachiMitsuki
1 year ago

I’d like to do it. I like such situations and the best way to look at a horror movie beforehand, just to get something “prepared” to the thing.

xdanix77
1 year ago

Rare but yes.