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an important point when your meals are taken in the open air 

 of an October evening in the mountains. 



Kitchen gear 



One nine-inch iron pot with a 'nest' of three smaller pots 



inside ; these should all be ' tinned ' or enamelled inside 

 Two tin milk-pans for kneading dough in 

 Two coffee-cans or ' billies ' 

 Two frying-pans to make dampers and fry bacon. Have these 



made with folding handles 

 Five soup-plates, five tea-cups (both plates and cups to be made 



of enamelled iron) 

 Five knives, five focks, five soup-spoons, five tea-spoons, one 



meat-knife, a big cooking fork, one small meat saw 

 Two axes and two spare axe-handles 



Almost of more importance than either food or kitchen 

 gear is the sportsman's ' sleeping outfit,' if I may use the jargon 

 of the camp. 



The common A tent is the one most used in America, but 

 probably there is nothing better than that known as Whymper's 

 Alpine tent, made of Willesden canvas, as recommended in 

 ' Hints to Travellers.' For extremely rough work I have used 

 a little ' tente d'abri ' into which we had to crawl on our hands 

 and knees, but which held two men, kept them dry, and weighed 

 with poles, pegs, ropes, and a bag to pack it in, only nineteen 

 pounds. 



I am inclined to think that even this weight might be lessened 

 if required. But whatever the tent you use, you should in all 

 cases have a floor to fit it, rather larger than the ground covered 

 by the tent, and made of some stout waterproof material. This 

 floor may be made to attach to the sides of the tent if so 

 desired. 



A sleeping bag or blankets must be taken for each person, 

 and if blankets are used, three pairs of four-point Hudson Bay 

 blankets if properly arranged will suffice to keep a man fairly 

 warm, even with the thermometer 10 below zero. But they 



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