# Camping season is upon us. Things you should not forget on a 10 day pack-in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043 "2009-05-29T17:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043/41 "2009-05-30T21:33:47Z")
Light weight flip-flops. Nothing worse than hiking all day, then having to keep your boots on all evening while your are making dinner. Let your tired, sore puppies breathe, they will serve you much better the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043/42 "2009-05-30T21:39:13Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > You don’t live in the terminally DAMP southeast do you? > > If I am worried about being able to start a fire, I stick a lighter here, there, and everywhere. By the time I am without lighter, I am probably buck naked without anything else either. Note to self: Always wash hands after borrowing billfish678’s lighter. You never know where he might have stuck it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043/43 "2009-05-31T02:10:56Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Personal preference: > In my _survival_ kit, the emergency things-have-gone-to-shit-kit, I keep a magnesium block. Small block will start a lot more than a handful of matches, and even the best match can’t hold a candle (heh) to the fire starting power of a mag block. (Not that strike anywhere/storm matches shouldn’t be in the regular gear already, of course.) Yes, and you note I suggested both. Most of the flint firestarters have a magnesium backing. Some don’t,but they have a special parking material. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043/44 "2009-05-31T14:58:29Z")
Wow, like a good person with ADD I have not been back here in a couple days. Great responses thank you! I will be weighing and gauging everything I bring, I won’t need an Axe because as **Telemark** eluded to I won’t be building too many fires. Perhaps the first and last night, and any night I may get a little cold, either way, in Canyonlands and Arches National park there won’t be any fires allowed. I will be on the move for much of the trip, but there will be 4 days in the middle where I am stationary. I have my whittling knife and a paper back to keep me company. I usually find a good stick to carve and walk with on the first or second night. That stick usually turns into a nice carved walking stick that I will gift to someone before I leave. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camping-season-is-upon-us-things-you-should-not-forget-on-a-10-day-pack-in/498043.md?page=2)