I used to get airlift by helicopter into heavily forested boreal areas
inaccessible by other means to undertake geotechnical sampling and testing
for weeks at a time.
You were talking about 500 miles from the nearest settlement ...

No trails or paths. No help or possibility of rescue unless you made it back
to camp to access your radio. Camp was often 20 miles away. I'd carry 60lb
sample bags to predetermined clearings for eventual pick-up.

They wondered why I insisted on carrying my Mossberg .12ga and never knew I
also packed a .44 Dan Wesson Handgun under my jacket.

CM

"Scotty" wrote in message
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I used to do a lot of back packing. ( PA Blue Mtns. AP Trail) .
My buddy and I would make fun of those with campers and the RV
park crowd. A few years later he bought a camper.
I used to cruise, a week at a time on a Mac 26'. very minimal
accommodations. But we loved it. As I got older I wanted more
room, a decent stove, a real head, stand up room, etc.

Scotty

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wrote in message
oups.com...
Once spent 3 weeks aboard with myself, my wife, and two small
kids.
Maybe were just less full o' **** than most. My wife suggested
the
porta-potti. Yes, I did read everything I could find on marine
heads
and replaced the old piping with supposedly impermeable stuff
before
deciding to make the switch. I never have head problems and
never work
on it now. I just haul it ashore every few days when we use
the boat,
no big deal. You have to understand that my wife and I were
always
outdoors fanatics so the boat is like luxury to us. We spent
our
honeymoon (1980) camping for 3 months along the continental
divide in
Colorado and WY. She was finally hurt in a climbing accident
(broken
arm, chunk outa her hip and broken toe but still wanted to
camp. We
finally gave it up and went back to civilization when the snow
was
collapsing the tent every night. AND that was just the
beginning so
you can see that having the luxury of a porta-potti and real
drinkable
water aboard seems like the Hilton by comparison. My daughters
dont
seem to mind the porta-potti either (19 and 9.)