What I've Got
I took a solo hike on June 25, 2016 in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon. I didn't really know where I was or where I was going - I just knew that my ride was meeting me a bunch of miles down the road some hours after I had been dropped off.
I thought a good way to start the day would be to take full stock of everything I had with me. I tried to make use of everything I had available to me and annotated the list as the day went by. Here's how it turned out.
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What I've Got
- Notebook (used)
- Pens (used)
- Multitool (used to carve my name in a log & to make lunch)
- Cellphone (photos only - no service) (used to take the photo that heads the "Fiction & such" page)
- Shoddy maps (decoded & used)
- Tilley hat (used; post about the virtues of a Tilley hat forthcoming)
- Kafka's The Trial (used)
- Sunglasses
- iPod & mini speakers (used to listen to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks for an hour of wandering)
- Playing cards
- 2 fig bars (ate one of 'em)
- 2/3 bag of trail mix (eaten)
- Block of cheese w/two slices bread (eaten)
- 32 oz water (gone)
- Hackey sack
- My wits (sure)
- Seven hours time (made it back in time)
What I Need (things I desired at some point during the day)
- Towel/rag (I was hiking next to a river all day)
- Toilet paper (actually found some at an abandoned campsite)
- Fruit
I thought a good way to start the day would be to take full stock of everything I had with me. I tried to make use of everything I had available to me and annotated the list as the day went by. Here's how it turned out.
______________________________________________________________________________
What I've Got
- Notebook (used)
- Pens (used)
- Multitool (used to carve my name in a log & to make lunch)
- Cellphone (photos only - no service) (used to take the photo that heads the "Fiction & such" page)
- Shoddy maps (decoded & used)
- Tilley hat (used; post about the virtues of a Tilley hat forthcoming)
- Kafka's The Trial (used)
- Sunglasses
- iPod & mini speakers (used to listen to Van Morrison's Astral Weeks for an hour of wandering)
- Playing cards
- 2 fig bars (ate one of 'em)
- 2/3 bag of trail mix (eaten)
- Block of cheese w/two slices bread (eaten)
- 32 oz water (gone)
- Hackey sack
- My wits (sure)
- Seven hours time (made it back in time)
What I Need (things I desired at some point during the day)
- Towel/rag (I was hiking next to a river all day)
- Toilet paper (actually found some at an abandoned campsite)
- Fruit