>>1491022I live in Santa Barbara county where it is very hilly, and for god knows why even the innawoods have 4G. Hmm, I'm thinking about a time i took a wrong turn and out of the pitch dark blue my dad texts me and says "lol ur sprinting (he can see my speed) and spinning in circles for past fifteen minutes there's a big rock ahead of you and the trail continues on top of it."
Hmm, carry a stick and a mini machete (like a heavy kukri), the former for critters and snakes (you just scroop them and throw them a few feet... unless they are nine feet long, but poisonous snakes never get that long) and the latter for people. To stab them to death. Actually for throwing but you need muscles for that. Moving on.
I will give you advice none of these schmucks will give you. Tell your parents you want to make a backpack so they don't freak. Then go look up distributors of rip-stop fabric. When you camp, even a crappy army pup tent will survive a category 2 hurricane if you prepare the terrain, but a walmart shit tent won't even survive 40 mph gusts on a dry evening. So, we want you to think about sleeping modularly, in layers:
- A firm ground tarp
- A bivuoac-size ten or a tent-tent of your design, containing:
- a water-impermeable bottom-half fabric, plus the same for structural stability for the next bit...
- ...which is a mesh of no-see-um mesh (anti-midge mesh)
- a rollable mat. If air mat, then bring extra army poncho covers or you will freeze to death. There is a somewhat expensive one from varusteleka you should buy, but not yet lest papa bear have a melt down.
- a water-impermeable rain tarp, or, optionally, a breathing rain tarp involving polyurethane and silicone on a heavy nylon mesh. However, a breathable fabric requires you maintain your kit with a 6-carbon flouride compound plus a special conditioner, but you have to do this anyway for your clothing.
In other words, get a job right now and save up at least $15,000 for kit, then diy it yoself sewing mach
