Materiel: n. "the aggregate of things used or needed in any business, undertaking, or operation"
Over the years since we have been hunting, our materiel has evolved, advanced, enlarged, accumulated, adapted, and quite simply become more accommodating to our aging bodies.
To give you an idea, that first year we hunted together I had moved from BC, land of lotuses and rain, to Northern Alberta. The only boots I had were rubber. So they were the boots I took when we left to hunt that last week of September, 1989.
The three of us slept in a 3-man nylon tent with our boots outside because there was no room inside. There was no room for anything besides us in the tent. And when we got up in the morning, the boots were frozen and putting on frozen boots is not fun. My feet stayed numb till noon. We had to light a fire every morning after we got up to try to get warm.
We each took two 2-litre bottles of water for the week and if remember correctly, a two litre bottle full of pancake batter. That was for our drinking and cooking. For the week. We must have had other food...but the pancake batter is what sticks.
In the years that followed we stayed in a camper, then a tent trailer, and eventually the wall tent that we have now.
(more pics and content to come... stay tuned)
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