PRIMITIVE TRAVELING [PICTURES]

[Buck Conner1]

PRIMITIVE TRAVELING

Some of you folks take part in primitive travel, while others like to look at the pictures or read about the venture. Either way it got your attention. If you do such things and would like to share your pictures please do.

The easiest way to share this with you is have you 'click' on this link ... 

http://buckconner.tripod.com/adventure/travel.pictures.htm​

This is just a few of many places we have traveled by horseback, water vessels (my favorite (least amount of work), or just trekking. Our longest venture was from Ft. Morgan CO. to Ft. deChartre IL (1,260 miles unsupported just like done in 1800). All clothing, bedding, equipage and food was as it would have been with Lewis and Clark's Corp of Discovery. One we'll all remember for the rest of our lives.  :ttups: ​

 

[Buck Conner1]

For being on a canoe trip, we sure did a lot of pulling and walking with the water so low we could only float the canoe and our 1,200 lb. of equipment and food for a month outing. Real fire drill on portages once a day, that got old real fast...  :x

 

[exMember]

1200lb load! Why.... You lads pack like ladies! :lol!:

 

[Buck Conner1]

We would have had one hell of a party. This venture did go into the Guiness Book of World Records for taking raw beaver hides (19) from the Rocky Mountains to Ft. deCharter for trade. Not done since 1824 per the information on file. Every state passed through - we met with a DOW agent to tag the hides, (they had made special lead seals just like the old days).  This was an issue usually not allowed to move raw fur like we were doing over state lines. Along with the DOW was a State Historical Society person from that state to approve what we were doing as a historical reenactment. 

Our supply officer really went over board with rations, he packed everything but the kitchen sink. About the third portage (1/2 mile long one way) I found some wood chuck holes and made a deposit of several hundred pounds of unneeded edibles. They had one heck of a party and probably had ladies too.  :affraid: