Camp Life - The Swamp

On the south end it is difficult to find good places to camp.  It is generally pretty swampy and the places that are dry tend to be hummocky (frost polygons from freeze thaw cycles).  And the lack of trees makes it tough to find a spot sheltered from the wind.  Hence you almost have to pick your poison - flat but swampy and sheltered, or flat and dry but not sheltered.  There were also a few dry, flat and sheltered places but they tended to be situated in logistically poor places to hunt.  

So we chose to camp in a swamp.  

It was fairly dry when we arrived, but after a rain storm and high wind our little camp on an oxbow flooded.  We noticed that the wind would blow up the creek and sort of back it up - it would blow the water back upstream!  We were never totally under water, but after a few days of trampling it got pretty mucky.  

But we got used to it and even reveled in the mud like pigs. Hey, what's a little mud when you got a woodstove to dry off with and a dry mountaineering tent with a floor for sleeping?  

Life was good if a little adventurous.

Patrick
 

When it was windy we collapsed the teepee

Our camp in the swamp

Muddy feet - a frequent condition

The 3 of us spent whole days tent bound in our tiny mountaineering tent

It got pretty mucky at our camp!

Mike had a device that measured the inside and outside temperature - looks like the stove is working

Our meat shelter - we had to build a 'table' to keep the meat off of the wet ground

MUD camp