Early spring solo hike camp, new hammock, old tarp, budworm boreal forest

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Channel: Wintertrekker · 2011 · Howto & Style

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Hiking is new to me, I am a canoe tripper and winter trekker sled hauler.  This is my first back pack hike using a hammock (Warbonnet Blackbird) and a Perfect Trees Crows Nest 3/4, 3 season under quilt (company now renamed HammockGear.com and the Crowsnest model is now replaced with the Phoenix model).  The set up worked well.  Excellent gear, no complaints.  I also show my external ridge tarp set up over the edge of the fire.  I finish with some brief interpretation of the boreal forest spruce budworm cycle which affects mostly balsam fir, and what the blowdown looks like.  Great firewood supply, lousy looking forest.

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