This weekend was taken up with more work towards our Christmas camping trip. Saturday evening, I spent 6 hours wandering stores looking for outdoor gear on my shopping list. I bought a lot of good stuff–sleeping pad, waterproof matches, good water bottles, etc–without spending too much money. At least it wasn’t too expensive until I stopped at the book store to look at their selection of books on winter camping.
Today I intended to publish a winter camping gear list, but I started reading my new books instead. I confess I feel overwhelmed and insufficiently prepared for winter camping. I wonder how much more I need to spend to be ready to go out winter camping.
Yesterday we got about 1 foot of snow over a 24 hour period. Today the temperature has warmed up a lot, and I am facing the fact that winter can kill you.
What I really want is to embrace the wilderness as home, but in the “comfort” of my apartment, nature doesn’t seem very friendly.
I just have to remind myself that people have been going out on winter camping trip for hundreds of years–long before goretex was invented.
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