I think this is a good start and a good presentation. I think this is fundamentally a "permissive environment" type setup. And a "non-permissive environment" setup would strip this down. Spiritus Systems has a video and I stole ideas from them so I can't claim to be awesome. As a principal: you should be able to go from patrolling to sleeping in 3 minutes. And from sleeping to moving out in 3 minutes. So gear needs to be fast to deploy and fast to pack up. A recent FTX hammered this point home for me. Use a jacket, poncho, bivy, and closed cell foam sleeping pad. Unless it's winter, the poncho and sleeping pad will be your 90% solution. If it's really raining, that bivy is nice and it's nice to have a poncho overhead to break the rain a little. And patrolling for 18+ hours will change ones idea of how comfortable they need to be to sleep. And hauling around crap I didn't use because there wasn't time really pressed home the idea that I'm not camping, I'm patrolling. And speed of deployment/packing is critical. And keeping the gear minimal is important to keep weight and space down is critical. Just some experiences. And had a wake-up call recently. So thought I'd share. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
I think this is a good start and a good presentation.
I think this is fundamentally a "permissive environment" type setup. And a "non-permissive environment" setup would strip this down. Spiritus Systems has a video and I stole ideas from them so I can't claim to be awesome.
As a principal: you should be able to go from patrolling to sleeping in 3 minutes. And from sleeping to moving out in 3 minutes. So gear needs to be fast to deploy and fast to pack up. A recent FTX hammered this point home for me.
Use a jacket, poncho, bivy, and closed cell foam sleeping pad.
Unless it's winter, the poncho and sleeping pad will be your 90% solution. If it's really raining, that bivy is nice and it's nice to have a poncho overhead to break the rain a little.
And patrolling for 18+ hours will change ones idea of how comfortable they need to be to sleep. And hauling around crap I didn't use because there wasn't time really pressed home the idea that I'm not camping, I'm patrolling. And speed of deployment/packing is critical. And keeping the gear minimal is important to keep weight and space down is critical.
Just some experiences. And had a wake-up call recently. So thought I'd share.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.