Or is it cheap?
I'm a dad of five (3 boys, 2 girls) and we love camping. With seven of us, I need to look for cheap. What drew me here is a post on homemade cookware. I saw a few other posts in the forum called Gear for Under $100 (or something like that). I want to be a part of this!
I am from a small town in Iowa.
I work with troubled youth as I go to school again to get my teaching certificate to teach math. I am also deeply involved in cub scouts and boy scouts. As a scouter, I have a little training and experience--not a lot, but a little--none in true wilderness.
However, the troop is gearing up to go to the boundary waters in 2013. We will do a smallish trek in the summer of 2012 (perhaps backpacking). For those trips in particular, I am looking for lightweight, reliable, cheap, easy to build and use, compact gear. Free would be better than cheap. If someone would pay me to haul away this ideal gear--that would be best.
In short, I am an inexperienced, ill-prepared novice that wants to improve on all three counts.
Other relevant interests include food prep, recipes, coffee, and general survival skills.
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