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This weekend Danielle and I rented some backpacks, sleeping bags, pads, and a tent from REI and headed out to the Pinckney Recreation Area to hike The Potawatomi Trail. After riding it on Memorial Day we figured that it would be a good location for a first overnight backpacking trip, and it was.
For food we brought along MREs in both surplus and civilian versions. They are decent meals, and at just over 1 pound each aren’t bad for an overnight trip. The food is general TV dinner quality, and about 1200 calories per meal. Eating one yesterday afternoon after setting up camp and another this morning before leaving, we were quite satisfied. I was also able to use the flameless heater in them to make this video of an MRE heater being burned in a campfire. In short, it burns hot and bright enough to overwhelm the CCD.
The second day of hiking was quite a bit easier than the first, which may be attributed to our leaving camp before the hottest part of the day. Another upside to finishing the hiking early is that we were able to return the rental stuff to REI a day early and be refunded an extra day of rental costs.
If you’d like to see more photos from this trip, click here: Potawatomi Trail (July 2009)