Trip reports in the Rewilder format: location, conditions, equipment, what happened, what worked, what didn’t, what we learned.
For three winters, on and off, I lived in a canvas tipi in the mountains of Western North Carolina with the first wool sleeping bag I ever sewed and nothing synthetic in the bedding. I had spent a few years testing the ideas on short trips. I wanted to know what happened when the experiment
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Four days in Linville Gorge in late November was the first time I carried my own gear into a group using the latest synthetic equipment: a wool sleeping bag I had sewn myself, waxed cotton shells, a two-pound open tarp. It rained. This is the field note, scored the way I scored it at the
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Years before there was a Lucky Sheep®, I hiked up Mount LeConte in the Smokies in winter with the best synthetic gear I could afford and came down hitchhiking. Nothing tore. Nothing leaked. My gear simply did what sealed synthetic gear does once you are wet, and that one cold night is where everything I
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