Author: Mid Tn Outdoors

I am Patrick with Mid Tn Outdoors. I am an Eagle Scout, Husband, and Father. I have a love for just about anything outdoors. Come along on my family's and my solo adventures.

This might be the ticket!!!

So I saw a video the other day on YouTube from Fun on Vancouver Island and he was showing the use of these really cool coffee filters. So I found them on Amazon and put them in the shopping cart. Fast forward a few days Chloe and I were at Academy Sports and found this. Kuju coffee (base camp flavor). You get five to a pack for 7.69 yeah a little pricey but the idea behind it being all ready to go is ideal. Just toss one or how ever many you need for your trip in a zip lock and into your food bag and your off on your adventure. The flavor is a combo of Oak, Chocolate and Honey is just right. They do have other blends and you can check them out at http://www.kujucoffee.com. Here is another note on this coffee 1% of all purchases goes to the National Park Foundation.

The 10 Essentials

This list applies to all the gear list that I will be posting over the next few Gear post I will be making over the next few weeks. So here is the list of your 10 Essentials you should have on you on

every outing.

1. Navigation: you should have map of the area your going, compass, altimeter, GPS devices, personal locator beacon (SPOT style device).

2. Headlamp: with extra batteries

3. Sun Protection: sunglasses, sun-protective clothes and sunscreen.

4. First Aid Kit: A must!

5 Knife: pocket, sheath knife

6.Fire kit: matches, lighter, fire steel, tinder and/or stove.

7. Shelter: carried at all times (can be something as simple as a tarp, any thing to get you out of the weather).

8. Extra Food: Beyond the minimum expectation.

9. Extra water: Beyond the minimum expectation

10. Extra Clothes: Beyond the minimum expectation

Planing.

So I am going over my schedule for up coming couple of months and to see where all I am going, what gear I will need and do I need to make reservations. How far out do you plan your outings? My thought is always know where your going and what your going to need to succeed. If you plan your gear a head of time you wont get to camp and have that oh crap moment that you forgot something. With that said what type of camping are you going to do i.e. car camping, bushcraft camp, backpacking or even cabin camping. In the coming days I will be touching more on these types of camping set ups and gear list for each.