What? More than one knife on a trip?!? The weight you save not taking so many extra tools like that means you can take more prepared energy drinks and more important fancy fu fu stuff! And less weight lets you farce march longer and faster so you can't see the nice scenery and cover more and more and more distance! And if your to tired to do any thing to get to your target destination on your smart phone that means you succeeded as you conk out and finally fall asleep! (To what illogical point I never figured that out.) And then next day have to farce march back again with no food or water as you went for weight savings to go faster and farther as possible!
Wow nice pictures! It makes me realized how spoiled and lucky I am to live in an area and have the old farm stead where I got lots of wilderhood animals alive and all I need do is steal...er...borrow...my sister's canoe (She steals the old farm stead every other weekend
) to on the watery ways with lots of public access around. Some say "Its not much of a place!" but then its mine and not theirs
For me now a days its wheelical camping but still I go just to get away from EVERY ONE (people I know that is
) over loading my out doorsy gear, taking my time looking wilderhood stuff about admiring it or force myself to (I make those memories and realize way later how glad I was I did it, its a getting older...er more EXPERIENCED syndrome I guess). And watching them farced marchers go by pointing out how I carried to much gear and got tired and had to camp where I was as I'm eating what ever good food I brought with me, or this time of year the fresh critters that got in my "Firing Pan". I have a good night watching the wilderhood, the stars, read a book, or take out the Kindle to watch the down loaded moving in the warm glow of the fire. (Yeah communing with nature is fun and fine, but it can get pretty dang boring if you live around it all the time) Then in the morning I see them force marching back as I have a leisure breakfast that I can see them eying my food with great envy as I can hear their stomach growl. Some times when an over burdened set of parents with kids go by, I offer them the stuff from my pack and fire to cook it, with as much water as I can spare. (It lightens my load as well
). We talk some, I give some woodsy advice and they look it up on their smart phones to confirm if its true. (Really, a smart phone can be useful if used as part of a set of camping tools) And then I head out to home to the nice warm glow of my Television and Computer screen, usually kicking myself for not taking pictures...again. As I have many chances to repeat such things around here, I think I'm spoiled but don't know it. If I was more energetic I'd march the...ridge lines/big hills? Like I did when I had a more itchy foot (not athlete's foot this time). But then I'd have to get a real smart phone to find out where the public land boundaries are and trial blazing, yes hacking and slashing making an original trail, aren't fun to me any more as in the past.
Wow that got rambly.