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Testing Backpacking Gear In Michigan

I was backpacking in the Sleeping Bear and that only because I threw in some
Dunes. It was March, so when I made it canned food. I was going light, but I
through the woods and over the dunes, I'd knew the forests here and felt
have miles of beach to myself. It was an comfortable with my abilities.My down
over-nighter, a chance to test new sleeping bag was a 17-ounce Western
ultralight backpacking equipment. I hiked Mountaineering HighLite. It was the first
the wooded hills quickly, enjoying the time I would use it below freezing (It
cold air.Halfway through the forest, I hit 25 degrees fahrenheit that night).
stopped to cook noodles. The cheap Fortunately, it wasn't too windy.At the
3-ounce pot was from a dollar store, and edge of the forest, behind the dunes, I
it worked fine. I was happy, because from set up my small tarp. I piled pine
the catalog descriptions, the expensive needles and dead bracken ferns under it,
titanium pots are all heavier, probably finishing just as it became dark. This
because they're too thick and with too made a warm mattress, and I slept well,
many gadgets.I had to use a small listening to the coyotes, and to the
twig-fire when my homemade alcohol stove waves pushing ice around in the lake.In
didn't provide enough heat. I later the morning I was happy to see only a
learned that isopropyl alcohol doesn't dusting of snow. My one-pound sleeping
burn as hot as the alcohol used for a gas bag had been warmer than my three-pounder
additive, but the twigs worked in any - and I thought that was light. I poured
case.Backpacking On The BeachAfter alcohol in the cut-off bottom of a pepsi
eating, I hiked to Lake Michigan, and sat can (my 1/2-ounce backpacking stove) and
up on a large sand dune. I watched the made tea. After some crackers I was soon
waves push ice up onto the empty beach. hiking in my mostly-dry shoes, along the
Coyotes began to howl in the distance, Lake Michigan shoreline.Backpacking
and the clouds rolled in. I was on the Lessons LearnedI ended my trip that
beach looking for petoskey stones when afternoon, with a hike to the village of
the snow began. Backpacking in March has Empire, seven miles away. I was mostly
its risks.I was in running shoes, and it satisfied. Only two problems: My tarp was
would be below freezing that night. In too small, and the alcohol I brought was
northern Michigan, March is definitely the wrong type.After backpacking in
part of winter. My feet stayed warm while Michigan for years, I know it well. I
I hiked, but I hadn't planned on them know where to find dead grass and bracken
getting wet. At least I had a pair of ferns, for example, to make a warm
warm, dry socks for sleeping.Ultralight mattress in a few minutes. Knowledge,
Backpacking EquipmentIt was the first obviously, can be as valuable as
time I used my GoLite Breeze backpack, expensive backpacking gear.Steve Gillman
which weighed only 13 ounces. I was is a long-time backpacker, and advocate
hiking with about nine pounds on my back, of ultralight backpacking.




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