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reaper2792 Master 11,735 posts since
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Primitive backpacking

Posted by reaper2792 on Mar 4, 2010 9:04 AM

So me and a friend are going primitive backpacking in the Catskills on March 20. We plan to stay 3-4 nights. If you dont know, primitive backpacking/camping is when you go into the woods away from trails and civilization with minimal supplies. We are bring sleeping bags but no tent, very little food and water and no forms of communication.

So has anybody ever done anything like this before? I've gone camping plenty of times but always at sites. Do you suggest i bring a gun? Im just wondering what supplies anybody recommends in case i forgot anything. The catskills are home to 1200-2000 black bears but im not too worried about them, im more worried about a creepy family living in some cabin in the middle of nowhere. Those movies never end good.
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  • CloudTM Expert 2,341 posts since
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    CloudTM     Mar 4, 2010 9:07 AM (in response to reaper2792)
    If your taking very little food, I suggest taking a gun, you might starve otherwise.
  • reaper2792 Master 11,735 posts since
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    reaper2792     Mar 4, 2010 9:09 AM (in response to reaper2792)

    CloudTM wrote:

     

    If your taking very little food, I suggest taking a gun, you might starve otherwise.




    yea, we were hoping to pull off some bear grylles-type traps for food. That and fishing should be enough. I'll eat bugs if i have too. I guess the gun will have to be a last minute decision.
  • IntoTheVoid Master 3,521 posts since
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    IntoTheVoid     Mar 4, 2010 9:11 AM (in response to reaper2792)
    Make sure you take a gun with at least 2 bullets.  Then you and your friend have to decide who kills who and then kills themselves when things go horribly, horribly wrong.  Which they probably will.
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    CloudTM     Mar 4, 2010 9:13 AM (in response to reaper2792)

    IntoTheVoid wrote:

     

    Make sure you take a gun with at least 2 bullets.  Then you and your friend have to decide who kills who and then kills themselves when things go horribly, horribly wrong.  Which they probably will.


    [sarcasm] That's what I call support!!! [/sarcasm]
  • Horrorman Master 24,206 posts since
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    Horrorman     Mar 4, 2010 10:01 AM (in response to reaper2792)
    Never thought about to do that as private person...
    I had to do something similar in my Army time. We had to go into the woods, it was kinda a survival training with limited food and water, so i know what awaits you. Good luck (and fun...!?) to that reaper.
  • MaTtKs Master 3,265 posts since
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    MaTtKs     Mar 4, 2010 10:07 AM (in response to reaper2792)
    Sounds like a normal backpacking trip for myself.  I've just recently started heading out by myself and love it.  Here's a pic I snapped while out the other day...

    http://i47.tinypic.com/fc4pwy.jpg


    Thought it turned out rather well for my crap camera phone.

    *Edit* Forgot to mention that the trip in that pic ^ was cut short when I found fresh bear tracks.  I don't eff with bears.
  • Horrorman Master 24,206 posts since
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    Horrorman     Mar 4, 2010 10:11 AM (in response to reaper2792)
    do you wear some kind of camouflage !? I do not see you
  • reaper2792 Master 11,735 posts since
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    reaper2792     Mar 4, 2010 10:12 AM (in response to reaper2792)

    MaTtKs wrote:

     

    Sounds like a normal backpacking trip for myself.  I've just recently started heading out by myself and love it.  Here's a pic I snapped while out the other day...

    http://i47.tinypic.com/fc4pwy.jpg


    Thought it turned out rather well for my crap camera phone.

    *Edit* Forgot to mention that the trip in that pic ^ was cut short when I found fresh bear tracks.  I don't eff with bears.




    yea, im hoping March 20th is still too early for the bears. And even if they are out then, they wont have energy in them to start chasing us and attacking us. Did you go to a reserve or a mountain range or is that just a local wooded area where you live?
  • MaTtKs Master 3,265 posts since
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    MaTtKs     Mar 4, 2010 10:14 AM (in response to reaper2792)

    reaper2792 wrote:

     

    Did you go to a reserve or a mountain range or is that just a local wooded area where you live?


    That was just the local wilderness...normally I head up to a state park.

    @Horroman:  I was camouflaged behind the camera.
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