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A heavy canvas tarp to protect the contents, a water proof ground sheet/shelter, a two inch foam pad, and a good sleeping bag. I have carried this bedroll, or one just like it for the past forty years. On pack mules, in pickup trucks and jet airplanes. I have thrown it down in snow banks, sand dunes, and parking lots. It always kept me warm and dry, no matter the situation. Whenever I am away from home for over night, my bedroll is always behind the seat of my truck. Just in case.
A few days ago on the 15th, I turned 66 years old. That evening found me at a Tractor Dealership in Wickenburg, Az. I had taken my tractor in to have a back hoe mounted on it. There was a Rodeo in town and the cheap hotel rooms were $150.00 per night. I slept in the driveway behind the dealership. I wasn't really roughing it, some might call it cheating, but I rolled out my bedroll on a folding cot.
A few days ago on the 15th, I turned 66 years old. That evening found me at a Tractor Dealership in Wickenburg, Az. I had taken my tractor in to have a back hoe mounted on it. There was a Rodeo in town and the cheap hotel rooms were $150.00 per night. I slept in the driveway behind the dealership. I wasn't really roughing it, some might call it cheating, but I rolled out my bedroll on a folding cot.
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Thread drift- I saw them with Iron Maiden back in ‘84 or so. Carry on.
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NO electric blanket?
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This is my Dad's sleeping bag. He used when he worked on the Trans-Alaskan (Alcan) Highway prior to enlisting for WW2.Rolled up it is bigger than most rolled up tents. It weighs about 30 pounds. It has a canvas shell and wool liner. It is stuffed with eider down.
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Really like that chair!!
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LOL! Our entire house is decorated with vintage snowshoes of all different shapes and sizes. I believe their are 8 pairs hanging on walls. Besides the snowshoe chair, we even have a snowshoe magazine rack.
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Saw them in '94 in Noblesville, myself. Can't remember who was with them.
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Just need a small sack of long lasting food stuff and a bit of something to drink to keep next to the bedroll. Perhaps a bit of soft paper also 
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I love the chair!
The bedroll is excellent as well.
In '84 I was 8 and a little afraid of Iron Maiden.
The bedroll is excellent as well.
In '84 I was 8 and a little afraid of Iron Maiden.
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Ah, you’re still a young un!
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Now that's a bedroll. Do you ever use it?
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In the past thirty years I have been stung at least a dozen times by scorpions. But it got down to 30 degrees, so no chance of scorpions.
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When I get a hole at the big toe,my wife says to throw them away. I just wear it on the other foot from then on. Doubles the life of them.
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Winter camping. There is one issue with the bag, it closes with snaps instead of a zipper. So, when you roll over in the middle of the night there is the possibility of a gap opening between two adjacent snaps, which, of course, can let cold air in.
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If you ever want to get rid of that old thing, I will take it off your hands.Winter camping. There is one issue with the bag, it closes with snaps instead of a zipper. So, when you roll over in the middle of the night there is the possibility of a gap opening between two adjacent snaps, which, of course, can let cold air in.
I have used a lot of different "bedrolls" over my life. Everything from a burlap sack buried in leaves to nothing but leaves in a hole buried with logs and covered. I found this sleeping bag a few years ago and got one of the -10 degree ones and I can say it is the most comfortable bag to sleep in that I have ever tried. Lots of room, easy to get in and out of for that midnight wiz, can roll from side to side and always have your nose in the breathing hole. Love it!
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