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To: marcos who wrote (34)	2/6/2004 8:15:57 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217

When you run into a swamp in the tropics, you turn back, or your whole workcrew dies of infested yellow malariacal black pustules forming on their boilerplate and they get eaten by alligators. Equipment rots before your eyes and food goes bad. When we run into a swamp in the white wasteland, we just wait 3 months and walk across it. As long as you bundle up good, there is no never mind. You have to insulate tents from the ground, so you lay down boughs or the stove melts the ice. There are lots of standing dead trees, so there is plenty of good fine grained denses firewood. White or black spruce dead ten years is best. You are generally as warm as bug in a rug, with your 36 inch air-tight rockin'. Remember to dig for some sand in an esker and line the airtight with 3 inches of it, or you are infor some grief. Burn some wood "wide open' every day with no damper and the inlet wide open so that the creosote burns out of your pipes. Tap them every day to knock the creo off. It would be better to put the stove hole straight up with a hat above it, but barring the ability to do that put it thru the asbestos hole out front with a double bend and attach it to a guyed green pole outside with iron wire. Let the vertical section tower over the tent 5 feet so the air gives it draft and sparks are led out on the wind. Put the vertical flue section about 3 feet out from the tent door so creo does not drip on the tent and sparks are led away a bit. Let the horizontal section bend slightly down away from the tent so creosote does not drip back on the pipe into the tent and stove. The flue sections should push inside each other from the top down, so creosote does not drip. As far as smoke goes it does not matter as the flue pressure is negative anyway and they do not leak naturally of gas. Always put the stove at the front of the tent. If you need out in a hurry go out the back. Make sure for that purpose that it lifts. Put boughs down on the snow plentifully undreneath the walls, and then logs over the plastic at the base to seal the air. Swamps are the preferred place to winter camp. Air is quiet, animal life is more abundant, and dead wood for fires is more plentiful. Indians always camped in swamps, actually winter and summer. In the dark of the edge of the swamp the flies are never as bad. There is also pure water if you dig in the sand near an open swamp. Another advantage of the great white north is that if you just leave the food outside in a plastic cooler, it keeps for three months. Eggs and fresh vegetables are the hardest to keep. We used to wrap our eggs in 3 sleeping bags when we left camp. They were sometimes frozen still when we got back. I never saw animals in the winter get into the cooler. Once the food is frozen they cannot detect it. We used to bury our food in metal tins in pits dug in sand in the summer. Overtop that we would put a grid of poles packed with sphagnum moss which was kept wet. In the shade these pits would hover around 32 to 40 degrees and food kept good in the pails standing in water for 3 weeks. The doors weighed about 100 or more pounds with a foot of moss in them and needed a lever to lift them. EC<:-}