Ultralight Backpacking - Testing Skills
On Lake Michigan, at the end of the Stonington Peninsula, there's a stretch of empty beach. Part of the Hiawatha National Forest, it's framed on either side by private property, with no easy access. To walk on the beach, however, is legal. Past the last cabin, the public land starts, and goes for six or seven miles. This is where I would test my ultralight backpacking skills and gear.I hiked a few miles the first day and explored the woods, where I ate wild blueberries for an hour.
Then I set up camp behind a small ridge on the beach. I collected dry grass along the edge of the forest, which made a nice mattress. I pitched my backpacking tarp fairly high, so the breeze would keep out the mosquitos. When camp was set, I went for a swim.This area has many crayfish, which look and taste just like miniature lobsters. After swimming I caught a dozen under the rocks in shallow water, and carried them back to camp in a whipped-cream container I found.
You never know what will wash up on a beach.I boiled them with some cattail hearts and evening primrose roots, in my cheap three ounce pan. It made a good meal with the crackers I brought. (You remove the meat from the tail of the crayfish, after cooking.)It was summer, so I hadn't brought a sleeping bag. At seventeen ounces, my bag wouldn't have added much to my packweight of eight pounds. I just wanted to try using a nylon sleeping bag liner I had recently sewn (5 ounces).
I wore my clothes to bed, including a hat I made from the sleeve of an old thermal shirt (1 ounce). I slept well, and ate granola bars for breakfast.Water was all around, so I only had a 16-ounce plastic pop bottle (1 ounce) and a few iodine tablets for purification. I took a good drink before I packed up.I found fresh bear tracks on the beach. The bear had walked within 60 yards of where I slept. I had a freon horn (2 ounces) that I'd bought after reading that people have used it's high-decible shriek to scare off bears.
I pulled it out. I followed the tracks for an hour, but only because I was going in that direction.I had two old cabins to explore, another patch of berries I knew about, and a beach full things to check out. The strangest item that regularly washes up is light bulbs. I take them home to use them. After years of finding these, a sailor finally told me that they throw them off the ships to shoot at them in the water.
I was finding the ones they missed.The next day I headed back. The rain I expected never came, so I didn't get to test my garbage bag rainsuit (2 ounces), but I had used a similar one with success before. Overall, I was happy with my ultralight backpacking "test." Of course, you can get by with fragile clothing and gear when you're hiking an open beach. Oh, and I never did see the bear..
Steve Gillman is a long-time backpacker, and advocate of lightweight backpacking. His advice and stories can be found at http://www.The-Ultralight-Site.com.HG Capital Makes Industrial Investment in Hawaii's Fastest Growing Region
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Sarasota Film Festival Runs From March 31 – April 9, 2006
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Newport Beach, CA (ContentDesk) September 26, 2005 -- Boutique, a Preferred Hotel Group Partner, is honored to announce the formation of an Official Advisory Committee. The four inaugural members, Brendan Carlin, General Manager of The Mosaic in Beverly Hills, Micarl Hill, General Manager of Clayton-on-the-Park in St. Louis, Ali Khoja, General Manager of the SoHo Metropolitan in Toronto, and Jeff Lehman, General Manager of The National in Miami, bring extensive hospitality experience to the Boutique organization. All four properties are members of Preferred Hotels & Resorts. Lindsey Ueberroth, Managing Director of Boutique, says, "As a new brand within Preferred Hotel Group, we felt there was a tremendous opportunity for us to tap into our hoteliers' great wealth of knowledge.
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Virginia Beach, VA (ContentDesk) October 9, 2003 -? Skycasters LLC, the nations largest value added reseller of the Hughes Direcway satellite internet service, today announced public availability of its new IP phone/fax service, SatVox. SatVox allows satellite users to make outbound calls, as well as receive incoming calls using a standard 10-digit telephone number assigned to the Direcway satellite internet site. SatVox also enables users to send and receive FAX transmissions over a Direcway satellite internet connection. The Skycasters SatVox connects directly to the public telephone network just like a regular telephone, or can be connected to a corporate PBX system allowing the remote satellite user to access other extensions, outside lines, voice mail and other PBX features. Skycasters does not charge any monthly or per-minute charges for a Skycasters customer to connect to either a PBX or to the public telephone network using SatVox.
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Dunn's River Falls in Jamaica
One of the ports of call for our Royal Caribbean cruiseship was Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Probably the most famous site in the region is Dunn's River Falls and we chose to tour it on our own rather than through one of the cruiseship tours. Once we disembarked from the cruiseship, there were cabs and shuttlebuses available at the pier. Cabs to Dunn's River Falls were $22 US for a return trip. Cabs allowed 1-3 people per vehicle.
We were also told at the pier that small shuttlebuses also go to the Falls at $5.50 US per person. These were also based on return trips. The only problem with shuttlebuses was that we had to wait until they filled up the shuttle before leaving for the Falls so since we were the first on the bus, we had to wait about 15 minutes for it to fill up. The driver then asks you when you want to be picked up at the Falls for the return trip. Our driver suggested 2 hours to see the Falls so we agreed on this time duration.Once at the Falls, a woman then came onboard the...
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After More than 20 Years of Business Aurora Pools and Spas Launches Online Store
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(ContentDesk) November 30, 2005 -- Debbie Goard launches web site to promote the eating of dogs , bags and dead rats (uh, cake interpretations, that is). Mid November 2005 marked the long time coming launch of www.debbiedoescakes.netDebbie is an Oakland resident by way of North Carolina. She has a background in art, with nearly two decades of experience in cake design. Over the course of her career she...
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What's in a Name? Does a Rose by Any Other Name Sell as Sweet?
Good product names act as advertising for your product. They differentiate you from your competitors and keep your customers coming back because they remember you and your product name. There is an art to naming products, and all great product names have the following qualities:
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