I took the picture on the left while at Walmart today, and the picture on the right is a screenshot I took just now. All of this to show you that if you want the best woodsman towel, all you have to do is go to the automotive section of your local department store and get yourself one of the towels they market for drying your automobile after a wash. They are far superior to the ones marketed to backpackers, they’re made out of the same stuff, just as light and compact, plusher, just as quick drying, and they cost a fraction of the ones marketed to backpackers.
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
