This is something I posted on my website a few years ago. Not much has changed in that time. But there have been some changes in the past few years.
My Coleman stove has been replaced. They just don't last. And every new one craps out sooner than the one before.
My ancient, trusty, home away from home of almost 25 years, Springbar tent, finally had to be replaced too... Zipper on the door finally crapped the bed and that old tent was just not worth repairing. So I got a new one exactly like it.
And the biggest change, since I wrote what's to follow, is I cook all my steaks on a little cast iron charcoal grill now, rather than pan fry on the Coleman.
Like this:
I'd like to thank Steve Garrett for converting me to fire and iron for camp cooking
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So, here's my long, long post on coyote camp. For anyone that gets through it all - thanks! And I'd like to here how you do it.
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The Coyote Camp
Coyote camp is a very special place for me. There is just nothing else that matches the freedom of wandering the far lonely places and camping wherever I end up at the end of the day. Just to get up early the next morning and do it all over again. Free as the wind to go wherever I please.
Simple fair weather cot camp
Roadside Motel
I spend a lot of nights every year “camping”. Besides camping out amongst 'em while coyote hunting, I do a good bit of wandering around remote areas throughout the year, just to see what I can see. Averaging around 50 nights a year in a sleeping bag, for the past several decades.
That's quite a bit of camping. Over a long period of time. I have it nailed down pretty high speed and low drag for how I personally like to roll.
But it's probably a bit different than what most people tend to think of as “camping”. It might be better described as bivouacking, more than camping. But, I call it camping.
Random anonymous coyote camp
Tent camp at night
Tent camp on a starry night
On a coyote hunt and most of my other exploring trips, camp is just a place to stop and eat dinner and sleep for the night. Often as not, I won't be making camp until dark or just before dark and I'll have camp fully stowed and be ready to roll again by first light.
Most of these camps are in spots I've never camped before and probably won't ever camp again. A lot of them, I think nobody has ever camped before or will again.
Cot camp under the stars
Typical coyote camp
Rolling new country, in the dark, I'm not the least bit picky about where to make camp. Just [beeep] near any spot that is kinda flat and big enough for my tent will do. I'm usually in lonely enough country that setting up a tent or a cot right in the middle of the road works fine if need be.
Tent in the middle of the road - now worries of anyone driving along
Tim in coyote camp
Coyote camp packed in Tim's Tacoma
Open grassy areas make easy camp site selection
More to come...
- DAA
My Coleman stove has been replaced. They just don't last. And every new one craps out sooner than the one before.
My ancient, trusty, home away from home of almost 25 years, Springbar tent, finally had to be replaced too... Zipper on the door finally crapped the bed and that old tent was just not worth repairing. So I got a new one exactly like it.
And the biggest change, since I wrote what's to follow, is I cook all my steaks on a little cast iron charcoal grill now, rather than pan fry on the Coleman.
Like this:
I'd like to thank Steve Garrett for converting me to fire and iron for camp cooking
So, here's my long, long post on coyote camp. For anyone that gets through it all - thanks! And I'd like to here how you do it.
----------------
The Coyote Camp
Coyote camp is a very special place for me. There is just nothing else that matches the freedom of wandering the far lonely places and camping wherever I end up at the end of the day. Just to get up early the next morning and do it all over again. Free as the wind to go wherever I please.
Simple fair weather cot camp
Roadside Motel
I spend a lot of nights every year “camping”. Besides camping out amongst 'em while coyote hunting, I do a good bit of wandering around remote areas throughout the year, just to see what I can see. Averaging around 50 nights a year in a sleeping bag, for the past several decades.
That's quite a bit of camping. Over a long period of time. I have it nailed down pretty high speed and low drag for how I personally like to roll.
But it's probably a bit different than what most people tend to think of as “camping”. It might be better described as bivouacking, more than camping. But, I call it camping.
Random anonymous coyote camp
Tent camp at night
Tent camp on a starry night
On a coyote hunt and most of my other exploring trips, camp is just a place to stop and eat dinner and sleep for the night. Often as not, I won't be making camp until dark or just before dark and I'll have camp fully stowed and be ready to roll again by first light.
Most of these camps are in spots I've never camped before and probably won't ever camp again. A lot of them, I think nobody has ever camped before or will again.
Cot camp under the stars
Typical coyote camp
Rolling new country, in the dark, I'm not the least bit picky about where to make camp. Just [beeep] near any spot that is kinda flat and big enough for my tent will do. I'm usually in lonely enough country that setting up a tent or a cot right in the middle of the road works fine if need be.
Tent in the middle of the road - now worries of anyone driving along
Tim in coyote camp
Coyote camp packed in Tim's Tacoma
Open grassy areas make easy camp site selection
More to come...
- DAA
