https://youtu.be/3140qH7O2GY
Finally finished my video!
which is easier to watch than acctually reading, but if you would something to read, here are my notes!
Over nighter
We camped.
It was in-tents.
Ah, youre welcome.
So, yeah, camping, we all packed up all our stuff and set off into the wild. And by wild I mean a 5 minute walk into the trees behind uni.
*insert picture, or walk it and film it*
Upon arrival we set up out tents, straight forward stuff. The area was mostly open land with sparse trees. There was a large space of flat land, unfortunately this was sheet ice and a near instant death to anyone who tried to walk on it.
But what did I learn??
Learning Outcomes:
- Tested kit
This is an important one, for me, lots of my kit has only seen temperatures above 0C with the lowest so far being minus 6 (Great fun, remind me to tell you about it later)
The most important thing with regards to camping is staying warm.
This is why we curl up in a ball and stick our noses up our buts to stay warm. Oh wait, that’s huskies. Okay, so we rely on sleeping bags, roll mats and tents.
Sleeping bags, now there is so much information out there on sleeping bags that I will break it down to this:
*table*
So you have your thousand euro sleeping bag which can keep you warm to minus a zillion, throw it on the floor and off you go!
Except no, now we are all told that heat rises, however, thanks to thermodynamics its not that simple.
Lying on a cold floor will squish you sleeping bag, thus squishing all the lovely warm air pockets within the fibers/feathers that are designed to keep you warm.
So you need an unsquishable sleeping bag!
**face pops up from unusual place**
Um, no, because then it wouldn’t be packable and you would need a pack the size of you to carry it.
**pop up face looks sad**
So we are doomed to have our warm sucked away by the floor cold??
Um, no, we can use a roll mat! Now these come is all sorts of shapes and sizes, but like the sleeping bags here is a cheat sheet!
**inflatable vs foam table**
- Learned many games and variations of games I already knew
Americans:
Cops and Robbers
Brits:
Chicken in a hen house
Rubber chicken rounders
Dutch:
Monster Movement
Hungairians:
Naughts and crosses relay race
Aussies
Helium stick
- Food
So it turns out that you can eat more than ration packs and cerial bars while out in the wild.
Using a collection of chicken, veggie meat, beef and lamb we crafted a great collection of food. Most of it looked similar, but it tasted good. I was cleaning out the pans, yes it still tasted good while it was cold!
How did we cook it?
Storm kitchens!
Pros and cons:
The spirit burner:
- It is easy to use, due to the simple construction.
- The burner works even when cold (usually)
- The fuel is rather cheap.
- It takes longer to reach the boiling point (compared to when using a gas burner), partly due to lower power. (sometimes it cant boil water)
- The spirit burner produces more soot than the gas burner.
The gas burner:
- It takes a shorter time to reach the boiling point, due to the higher power.
- It is easy to use. It produces no soot.
- It is easy to adjust the power during use.
- It does not work at a temperature below -10 degrees Celsius. (unless using cold weather gas)
- The fuel is more expensive than for the spirit burner.
- It is more difficult to determine when you are running out of fuel in the container
- Resource heavy, a bulky gas canister is thrown away each time.
- Camp fire
A camp fire was started by a few of our group, I don’t want to name names, they know who they are!
The structure of the fire was a little inconsistent, for starters almost all the wood was wet, and there was no set “fire controller” so it ended up being a mass up shape od lean to and tepee
- Ice is slippery
- Application of Allemannsrett
This is an interesting one. Allemannsrett translates to everyman’s right, also referred to as the “freedom to roam”