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April, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
RUSSELL’S 
“NEVER LEAK"] 
OUTFIT FOR THE TRAIL 
WHAT TO TAKE ALONG WHEN YOU GO 
FOR A WEEK’S TRIP IN THE BIG WOODS 
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By ERNST JONSON 
OULD you know the 
woods? Then go it 
alone. And go pre- 
pared to stay the 
night. In order to be 
able to spend several 
days and nights in 
the woods with com- 
fort, a well consid- 
ered outfit is essen- 
tial. 
It is easy to collect 
a wagonload of camp- 
ing things, but to get up an adequate 
outfit that you can carry with ease 
for several miles up a mountain trail is a 
problem which demands ingenuity and 
experience. 
If a tent is to be carried on the trail 
it must be light, it must be as small as 
possible, and of the lightest material that 
can be made rain-proof. The smallest 
one-man tent is an “A” tent 6 ft. long, 
4 ft. wide at one end 1 ft. 8 in. wide at 
the other end; the height at each end 
being equal to the width. If this tent is 
made to open at both ends, it also can be 
used as a shelter tent by raising one side 
almost into the plain of the other side. 
Thus the sun is admitted during the day, 
and at night the heat of the fire is re- 
flected onto the sleeper, keeping him 
warm through the coldest night. A tent 
of this type saves time in making camp 
because it can be set up without poles or 
pegs. One end of the ridge-rope, which 
should be 25 ft. long, is tied to a tree, 
and the other end to brush. If strings 
30 in. long are substituted for the usual 
becket loops, you can tie the tent down to 
roots, logs or brush, so that it is unneces- 
sary to cut pegs. A sod cloth adds great- 
ly to one’s comfort, for it keeps out wind 
and insects. The sod cloth is a strip 
8 in. wide, sewed into the bottom hem 
of the tent. Cut a slit in the sod and. 
insert the sod cloth in it or, when this 
seems too laborious, load it down with 
sticks and stones. 
If the tent were made of the usual 
ten-ounce double-filling army duck, it 
would be too heavy to carry. A lighter 
material, therefore, must be used, but 
such a material would not be rain-proof 
unless it were treated in some way. Sail 
drilling, unbleached muslin, or balloon 
silk, if well filled with paraffine, makes a 
rain-proof tent. A 6 ft. by 4 ft. “A” 
tent of balloon silk will weigh only about 
4% pounds. 
To fill the fabric with paraffine, cut 
the wax into thin shavings and dissolve 
it in gasoline or benzine, using as much 
of the wax as the liquid will take into the 
solution. Stretch the tent and apply the 
solution with a flat paint brush. The 
work should be done in a warm place. 
Another way is to lay the tent on a table 
and rub it with a cake of paraffine until 
it has a uniform coating. Then melt the 
wax into the cloth with a warm flat-iron. 
I F you do not rest well at night, you will 
not enjoy the woods, and most people 
need a good bed to get the most out of 
their night’s sleep. Where evergreens 
grow it is easy to make a comfortable 
bed. Cut branches, preferably of balsam 
or spruce, about 2 ft. long. First build 
up a pillow. Then lay a tier of branches 
with their tips over the pillow and their 
butt ends on the ground. Continue this 
process, laying tier upon tier, shingle- 
wise, until the bed is finished. Where 
suitable foliage is not available, it is 
well to carry a mattress cover of un- 
bleached muslin. The cover should be 
2 ft. 6 in. wide and 6 ft. 3 in. long, with 
the corners trimmed off at one end to fit 
the narrow end of the tent, and the other 
end left open. Fill this cover with some 
soft, dry material such as moss, grass or 
leaves. 
Light, all-wool blankets wrapped tight- 
ly about the body, give the most warmth 
per pound of material. Closed sleeping 
bags do not fit snugly and therefore they 
require more weight of blanket. In order 
to keep the blankets in place through the 
night, make youself a bed-cover of muslin 
to be wrapped about the body outside the 
blankets and to fasten up with loops and 
buttons, or with tying strings. If it is 
very cold, the bed cover should be long 
enough to form a hood over the head with 
one thickness of blanket. In the East, 
during the month of October, four single 
blankets with a muslin cover will gen- 
erally be enough. The weight of this 
bedding will be about 10 pounds. 
If one goes into the woods for more 
than a day or two, such foods as steaks, 
potatoes, canned soup, white bread and 
fresh fruit are too heavy and too bulky 
to carry. One must then be satisfied with 
dry food. The following supplies will 
last one week. 
Pounds Pounds 
Rice 
2 
Coffee 
1 
Flour 
2 
Condens’d milk 
1 
Baking powder 
% 
Sugar 
2 
Eggs, seven.. 
% 
Salt 
% 
Butter 
1 
Tea 
y 8 
Bacon 
1% 
Prunes 
1 
Sausages .... 
'1 
Peaches, dried 
1 
Cheese 
1 
Raisins 
% 
Chocolate .... 
% 
Cinnamon . . . 
tV 
Total weight about 
17 
Baking powder, eggs, butter and milk 
should be carried in tins. Self-sealing 
tins .should be used for butter and milk. 
The rest of the supplies pack well in 
muslin bags tied with a tape sewed to 
the bag. The work of cooking may be 
reduced by substituting dry bread and 
cakes for flour. 
For cooking utensils, take two or three 
small aluminum pails, 4 to 5% in. in 
diameter, with detachable handles, so 
that they will nest. Also bring a email 
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