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Super Lightweight
Windproof Lantern
All you need is to bring a transparent plastic bag and a candle. Grab some sand/dirt into
the plastic bag and set it to the ground to form a base, and put candle onto the base, roll
down the plastic bag. You just make a windproof, collapsible and reusable lantern.
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This lantern is good especially if
you can't have a fire.
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Keep Your Used Tea Bags
It is so difficult to keep your plastic bowl or metal pot away from the grease in the backcountry.
I have a solution to this problem. Once you finish making your tea, use the tea bag (still hot or warm)
to wipe the greasy bowls or pots. Tea leaves are natural oil-absorbants and the mesh bag will act as
a scrub. The key is to wipe the grease while the tea bag is still hot or warm. It works everytime.
Give it a try.
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Keep Yourself Warm
inside the Sleeping Bag
There are 2 things you can do to help keep yourself warm inside your own sleeping bag.
a) Understand that a sleeping bag functions like a cooler box. You put cold stuff inside
a cooler, it will keep it cool. You put hot stuff inside a cooler, it will keep it warm.
You need to warm yourself up by taking a walk before getting into your sleeping bag.
Or my secret trick is to pour boiling water into a nalgene bottle, and throw the nalgene
into your sleeping bag 30 minutes before you go to sleep. In this way, the sleeping bag
is warmed up by the nalgene, and very likely the bottle will still be hot when you crawl
into your sleeping bag.
b) Definitely go to bathroom before you climb into your sleeping bag. If you need to go
in the middle of night but decide to hold it, I guarantee you will feel even colder and unable
to go back to sleep. Just get out of the tent and do it fast. You may lose some heat but
compared to holding it, it is nothing. Why?
If you try holding it, your body not only have to generate more energy for muscle contractions,
but also have to keep the full bladder (as much as 2 Litres) of useless liquid at your body
temperature (37.6C). In both cases, it will drain up your energy source very fast, in which you
will feel hungry and cold in the middle of the night. Think about it, eventually you have to
go. Why not do it fast and had a good warm sleep ?
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