So last night we decided to take a over night trip and this would be my step sons first camping trip.
Before we set off I decided I wanted to keep the kit as minimal as possible whilst taking a tent to make this trip a but easier for my step son.
Here's the kit before it was packed
This was as simple as I could keep it. Kit consisted of tent, sleeping bags, bed rolls, penny stove, water, meths, fire steel, billy tins, torches, tinder, food and knives and axe.
Here is it all packed in my 70litre pack
It weighed 3 stone all in which was a bit hefty for my liking.
SWMBO dropped us at our drop off at around 19:00 and we had a 20 minute hike into our proposed position located in a nice copse of small trees.
Looking into our planned destination.
We picked a nice pitching spot where there was no potential fall risks or deadfall.
This was our planned pitch in a nice location.
Next we set up my Lichfield apache 3 and got our beds sorted.
Next on the menu was to get some dry wood and get a fire going but with the recent torrential rain everything was very very wet. We decided on getting the penny stove out and putting on our super noodles, which were very nice.
Josh enjoying the noodles
Once refuelled we did some basic fire raft even though it was very wet. Josh had fun trying to light the tinder.
He was getting it pretty quickly
We then did some basic shelter building and we built a lean to.
Josh and I both tried it on for size
It wasn't the roomier shelter but it worked.
We bedded down about 22:30 after doing some animal tracking and seeing some bats and a heron.
We decamped at 07:30 and left no trace we were there
Even my shelter was still standing
All in all a good trip and he enjoyed it.
Before we set off I decided I wanted to keep the kit as minimal as possible whilst taking a tent to make this trip a but easier for my step son.
Here's the kit before it was packed
This was as simple as I could keep it. Kit consisted of tent, sleeping bags, bed rolls, penny stove, water, meths, fire steel, billy tins, torches, tinder, food and knives and axe.
Here is it all packed in my 70litre pack
It weighed 3 stone all in which was a bit hefty for my liking.
SWMBO dropped us at our drop off at around 19:00 and we had a 20 minute hike into our proposed position located in a nice copse of small trees.
Looking into our planned destination.
We picked a nice pitching spot where there was no potential fall risks or deadfall.
This was our planned pitch in a nice location.
Next we set up my Lichfield apache 3 and got our beds sorted.
Next on the menu was to get some dry wood and get a fire going but with the recent torrential rain everything was very very wet. We decided on getting the penny stove out and putting on our super noodles, which were very nice.
Josh enjoying the noodles
Once refuelled we did some basic fire raft even though it was very wet. Josh had fun trying to light the tinder.
He was getting it pretty quickly
We then did some basic shelter building and we built a lean to.
Josh and I both tried it on for size
It wasn't the roomier shelter but it worked.
We bedded down about 22:30 after doing some animal tracking and seeing some bats and a heron.
We decamped at 07:30 and left no trace we were there
Even my shelter was still standing
All in all a good trip and he enjoyed it.
