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Good Morning Lodge.
It was so short and, basically, embarrassing, that I am reluctant to post such a report. Long and the short of it is Jr and I are not cut out for camping. Neither of us sleeps well on the ground, in a tent. We are too hot or too cold, hard to get pillows that work and the sounds can keep us awake. We had a mother *ing whippoorwill next to our camp that did not shut up from midnight to 5 AM. Combine that with my back not reacting well to paddling, carrying, climbing, trying to cook on a stove on the ground and laying on the ground and we were ready for a cabin or motel after just one night. So we bagged it and went back to the outfitter who put us up in the bunk house. We fished again in the morning and caught a few more small bass then headed for home. Then we hit the dam deer 10 miles south of Ely. Car is still in Ely waiting for an estimator to come and check it out.
Good Morning Lodge.
It was so short and, basically, embarrassing, that I am reluctant to post such a report. Long and the short of it is Jr and I are not cut out for camping. Neither of us sleeps well on the ground, in a tent. We are too hot or too cold, hard to get pillows that work and the sounds can keep us awake. We had a mother *ing whippoorwill next to our camp that did not shut up from midnight to 5 AM. Combine that with my back not reacting well to paddling, carrying, climbing, trying to cook on a stove on the ground and laying on the ground and we were ready for a cabin or motel after just one night. So we bagged it and went back to the outfitter who put us up in the bunk house. We fished again in the morning and caught a few more small bass then headed for home. Then we hit the dam deer 10 miles south of Ely. Car is still in Ely waiting for an estimator to come and check it out.
The very reasons you dislike camping are the exact reasons I enjoy it. Granted, we use cots with goose down air mattresses and other gear that make things easier but we are still in a tent.
I have spent numerous occasions in the wilderness with nothing more than my clothing, a knife, a rifle and some other basic essentials. I was not alone but that can get sort of difficult to say the least.
If life as we know it changed dramatically and we were forced to live off the grid I (and my family) would manage to survive. Quite the opposite with a vast majority of people though.
Goldy would die of lack of sleep in the first week.
Oh yeah, and when the zombie apocalypse happens, doubt you'll be able to tote your goose down air mattresses around with you.
