Have A Good Weekend

12 Feb

Left my stove in the trunk of the car before the paddle out to Cape Sable, Everglades National Park. Rookie mistake.

Forrest MacCormack February 12, 2010 at 4:36 pm #

Maybe not a rookie mistake.. as you don’t seem like a rookie anymore. You just made a mistake. Everybody makes ‘em. Here is my stove mistake:

Took me forever to figured out that the leather pump-cup in my MSR WhisperLite Internationale stove needs a tiny bit oil to make a seal and build pressure in the fuel bottle. (I was bad to read directions) so I thought the stove just didn’t work. I kept buying a new MSR pump for the stove year after year – season after season. (I think I bought three in all). Until one day a friend explained it to me. “Did you lube the leather cup that forms the pressure seal?”

DOOOHH! I put a little nose grease on the leather and —- just like new. I now have three fuel pumps for my stove. NOW THAT my friend is a rookie mistake!
sinuhe February 12, 2010 at 11:10 pm #

Everyone does it.

On a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon both my partner and I assumed the other packed a tent. Not a big deal in the desert, until an unexpected storm rears its ugly head over the canyon rim…
Eric February 14, 2010 at 12:18 am #

Forgetting stuff sucks. I tend to forget my sleeping pad. Luckily for me, the last time I forgot it was in Saguaro NP and I found a heavy-ass military sleeping bag in a bear locker. Sure beat my sleeping pad.
Christopher McCandless February 17, 2010 at 9:03 am #

I forgot a map and compass. Big mistake.