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FOREST AND STREAM 
THE OPEN CAMP IN WINTER 
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hands have been employed in the making of the 
camp there will have been no call for a fire until 
you are ready to take up quarters, unless the 
darkness has caught you lagging and a flare-up 
is needed to help you find your way about. One 
soon learns to conserve the firewood and suffi¬ 
cient must always be laid aside for the breakfast 
fire. 
'When, on the morrow, you turn out of the 
warm blankets and face the raw, frosty air of 
an early winter morn—oftentimes some hours 
before the dawn—you know exactly what you 
want. It is a new, bright, hot, crackling fire 
and you want that fire in a hurry. Therefore 
lay aside the necessary fuel before turning in. 
Supper is now in order and as soon as dis¬ 
posed of—which is in rapid-fire time, for you 
will have man-size appetites and anyway the tem¬ 
perature will not permit you to Fletcherize or 
keep up table conversation unless your tastes run 
to cold dishes—heap on what wood you can 
spare and make the best of the opportunity to 
dry out duffle, socks and moccasins. Long poles 
stuck into the snow and reaching out over the 
fire make excellent clothes-horses. Whatever 
footgear, mitts, or other articles of clothing that 
does not thoroughly dry out place within your 
sleeping robes. You will know where they are 
in the morning and they will not be frozen solid. 
Should an adverse wind spring up before the 
fire has burned low change the draft by setting 
up on poles just back of the fire a tarpaulin, 
sleigh wrapper or blanket—whatever is handy 
and can be spared. Then the smoke and sparks 
will not bother you. 
Ere the firelight has faded and the dying coals 
are changing from red to a lifeless gray all 
hands should be in their bags, snugly fitted to¬ 
gether, and if the size of the camp has been care¬ 
fully attended to there will be no cold storage 
space between the sleepers and the end men will 
have the shelter of the side walls. The winter 
nights are long and in the short space of time 
allotted for making camp enough wood to keep 
the fire burning overnight cannot be gathered. 
Your sleeping robes and the body’s own full- 
blooded vitality should furnish the necessary 
warmth. An all-night fire is a needless extrav¬ 
agance; a wretched ordeal for the unfortunate 
sleepy one who has been detailed as its attend¬ 
ant. 
Sleeping gear to be suited to the requirements 
of winter travel by sled and snowshoe, whether 
you have dogs for transport or don the toboggan 
harness yourself, must be light in weight and 
compact in size. 
The native plaited rabbitskin quilt has them all 
beaten for combined lightness and warmth but 
there are many advertised outfits available at 
home and nearly as good from which to make 
selection. The writer has slept most comfortably 
night after night in open camps with the tem¬ 
perature ranging between thirtyffive and forty- 
eight degrees below with no other covering than 
a six by seven foot eiderdown quilt sewn up into 
the form of a bag and weighing eleven pounds. 
If you should happen to have a rubber sheet 
along—an unnecessary and rather weighty arti¬ 
cle for winter travel—do not spread it under¬ 
neath you. Instead lay plenty of brush and 
spread the rubber over the blankets. It provides 
wonderful warmth that way. 
Let it snow! Pull a woollen sleeping cap 
down over your ears and a corner of the bag or 
blanket over your nose—you soon learn to ar¬ 
range it to the best advantage for breathing pur¬ 
poses—and you will sleep the warmer for the 
extra coverlet of snow. Dread nothing but the 
early call to rise. The quietude of the deep, 
frost-hung darkness engenders dreamless slum¬ 
ber. Old Winter’s winds sighing through the 
evergreens overhead will soothe you to sleep, 
the old, old lullaby of the pines. 
If you are not comfortable some radical fault 
lies nearby. See that the large ends of the spruce 
or pine “feathers” are buried ’neath their neigh¬ 
bors. You should lay the boughs like the shin¬ 
gles of a house, tip overlapping butt. It takes 
but a few minutes longer, a little extra care, 
than to just toss them in a heap and kick them 
into the semblance of a couch. From those ex¬ 
tra minutes and added care you will reap four¬ 
fold comfort and your brush mattress will bring 
wonderfully grateful ease to a tired body and 
aching limbs. 
Maybe your feet have been neglected. If so, 
look to them for trouble and discomfort. You 
should give them your attention first, last and 
all the time, for they are most sensitive to ne¬ 
glect and it is on them that you must depend to 
carry you over the trail. 
Damp socks produce cold feet at night. The 
native and experienced tripper will change foot¬ 
gear every night and no matter how sleepy you 
are nor how insistently a travel-wracked body 
begs to be laid at ease it always pays to burn 
an extra log and sit up an hour later drying 
out socks and duffle for the morrow, unless you 
are so fortunate as to have sufficient dry chan¬ 
ges to last you to the journey’s end. 
Some have made it their custom to turn in 
fully shod, putting on the morrow’s dry change 
before stretching out for the night. One is thus 
ready,. on crawling out of his bed at dawn, to 
slip his prepared feet into the snowshoe thongs. 
But, if you adopt this custom, be sure your duffle 
is put on loosely and the moccasins slackly tied, 
for the feet of the occasional tramper are un¬ 
accustomed to the trial of long days on the shoes 
and are liable to swell more or less at night 
time. If your lashings are tied tightly excru¬ 
ciating. torture will be your lot and no matter 
how tired you are or how comfortable the 
boughs may feel, ere sleep will come you will 
throw off the warm covering to get at the source 
of pain, and tear the torturing bindings from 
your feet. The term “tenderfoot” was never 
better applied than to the city man travelling on 
a winter trail. 
A ‘•BY-PRODUCT” OF TRAPSHOOTING. 
About three years ago, the ground in front of 
the traps at the Du Pont Gun Club was “mined” 
and a pile of lead of twenty-three tons was the 
result. A portion of the ground of a club at 
Columbus, Ohio was put through the “sieve” and 
twenty-six tons resulted. 
The method of securing this lead is simple. 
Plots of ground about thirty feet by five feet are 
skinned about one and a half inches deep. This 
top soil is then put in piles and allowed to stand 
for two or three days until it dries. It is then 
put into a large, coarse cylinder sieve that is oper¬ 
ated by a gasoline engine, which gets rid of the 
earth containing no lead. Then it is put through 
a fine sieve and more dirt is removed. If the 
earth sticks several screenings are necessary until 
only the lead remains. Then the remainder of the 
shooting territory is handled in the same manner. 
