13.1 mile day up and over a place called max patch. Max must mow about 100 acres of a couple of hill top balds and their gap fields. It seems to be a popular destination for local day bikes and classes. It was a wonderfully sunny day . I lay in the grass for about an hour.
When I roll in to a shelter or lately a campsite the procedure goes like this: open up my pack and pull out bags of stuff. If it's a shelter I want to stake out a wall berth so I take out my pad which is rolled up inside my tents ground clothe. If there is a broom , and there have been a few, I brush off the rack then roll out my pad on the ground cloth- my territory thus defined I can pull out my sleeping bag. The bags stuff sack gets laid out close at hand and this will define where my glasses headlamp toilet paper iPhone and hat can be found. Next. I find my stove but inside the cooking pot is a bag of line. It's supposed to be what I can hang food from a tree so the bears don't get it. Now I use it for a cloths line mostly. I had some grey stuff that I threw over a tree once after dark and I lost it for 10 minutes . I could not see that rope to save me. So during my lay over in hot springs I went into the outfitter there and asked for some line that was like my tent lines, they reflect my headlamp in the dark very cool. So the guy gave me this rainbow colored stuff and I mailed the gray stuff home. The first night out of hot springs I realize this stuff doesn't glow in the dark! Bastards!
Anyway I get a cloths line up and put my wet with sweat shirt and put on my smart wool long undies shirt and down sweater. Then I take my boots off hang my socks on the line put on the one pair of thick socks and crocks. Pull the insoles out of my boots. Strip off my wet shorts. I have decided that hiking in shorts is the way to go. I wear my haters [do you mean gators?] to keep my socks dry and crap from falling I my boots. It also keeps my boots dryer. So the question is do I wear under wear. I tried not for two days and my saddle sores, where my hip belt is secured around, really acted up so I put my ex-officious underwear back on, pulled them up just as high as I could and greased up my sores with lube and we are pretty good so far. So i put on the bottoms to longies and and my pants and we are ready to do chores. And really hanging anything up to dry is a dream. Especially in the smokies and especially if it's towards the end of the day-nothing dries much until you put it damp and stinking into your sleeping bag . It All will dry a little from the heat of your body. I sent my sleeping bag liner home because the longies were doing a nice job of keeping wet clammy body parts from sticking together in the bag.
Water is next. I sent my pump home even tho I have my pack bladder all set up with a QD so I pump right into the bag. Anyway I sent it home it was big and and heavy and am now using aquimira, a two part chemical treatment. It's a little more involved. A chemical death to any living dodo's but you get to have the silt that your kerchief doesn't filter out. I ususally get about 2.5 liters that gets me supper and breakfast and about a liter to start the days hike
75° Sunny
Cherokee National Forest, Del Rio, TN, United States
When I roll in to a shelter or lately a campsite the procedure goes like this: open up my pack and pull out bags of stuff. If it's a shelter I want to stake out a wall berth so I take out my pad which is rolled up inside my tents ground clothe. If there is a broom , and there have been a few, I brush off the rack then roll out my pad on the ground cloth- my territory thus defined I can pull out my sleeping bag. The bags stuff sack gets laid out close at hand and this will define where my glasses headlamp toilet paper iPhone and hat can be found. Next. I find my stove but inside the cooking pot is a bag of line. It's supposed to be what I can hang food from a tree so the bears don't get it. Now I use it for a cloths line mostly. I had some grey stuff that I threw over a tree once after dark and I lost it for 10 minutes . I could not see that rope to save me. So during my lay over in hot springs I went into the outfitter there and asked for some line that was like my tent lines, they reflect my headlamp in the dark very cool. So the guy gave me this rainbow colored stuff and I mailed the gray stuff home. The first night out of hot springs I realize this stuff doesn't glow in the dark! Bastards!
Anyway I get a cloths line up and put my wet with sweat shirt and put on my smart wool long undies shirt and down sweater. Then I take my boots off hang my socks on the line put on the one pair of thick socks and crocks. Pull the insoles out of my boots. Strip off my wet shorts. I have decided that hiking in shorts is the way to go. I wear my haters [do you mean gators?] to keep my socks dry and crap from falling I my boots. It also keeps my boots dryer. So the question is do I wear under wear. I tried not for two days and my saddle sores, where my hip belt is secured around, really acted up so I put my ex-officious underwear back on, pulled them up just as high as I could and greased up my sores with lube and we are pretty good so far. So i put on the bottoms to longies and and my pants and we are ready to do chores. And really hanging anything up to dry is a dream. Especially in the smokies and especially if it's towards the end of the day-nothing dries much until you put it damp and stinking into your sleeping bag . It All will dry a little from the heat of your body. I sent my sleeping bag liner home because the longies were doing a nice job of keeping wet clammy body parts from sticking together in the bag.
Water is next. I sent my pump home even tho I have my pack bladder all set up with a QD so I pump right into the bag. Anyway I sent it home it was big and and heavy and am now using aquimira, a two part chemical treatment. It's a little more involved. A chemical death to any living dodo's but you get to have the silt that your kerchief doesn't filter out. I ususally get about 2.5 liters that gets me supper and breakfast and about a liter to start the days hike
75° Sunny
Cherokee National Forest, Del Rio, TN, United States
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So relieved that you are treating your water - when I read you'd sent your filter home, I was afraid you weren't treating. Good thing you are. I've heard of several cases of the nasties this year from untreated water.
ReplyDeleteYour hike still sounds wonderful, even if it is in wet clothing. Wish I was out there somewhere. . . just a little warmer than you probably are.