Packing for Yellowstone

 

I gave up trying to reinstall the small tent’s windows with seam sealer and just taped in a double layer of plastic bag with Gorilla Tape. When we get back, we can send it to the manufacturer for repair. We’d already spent hours getting off the old coating and reapplying a polyurethane to the inside of the fly. Just need to spray the outside with waterproofing. We can always cover the whole thing with Tyvek sheeting if it rains. 

The new part for our camp stove didn’t fit because it was for a different brand. So close. Off to Walmart to buy a new stove since REI and BassPro Shop were both out. I had wanted a gas one like we used for years, but there were none to be had at this late date. We are stuck with using the 1# propane cylinders, at least for this trip. Another thing to think on when we get back. 

Now it’s a matter of arranging all our supplies in the truck. We’ve decided to put our warm clothes in a big plastic box I got at the Container Store (definitely truth in the name). We won’t need down jackets and gloves until we are in Wyoming so don’t want to schlep them in and out of the motels on the way. The scope will go in another box with the same footprint but shorter, so should stack well. 2 half size ones for picnic food and supplies go on top, all without sliding around. Grant wanted more of the bigger boxes to store sleeping bags, air mattresses, etc., but we don’t have any place to store them when we return: the money saving advantage of a small house. The soft goods will just get pitched in on top of the kitchen and household boxes which go in first. Clara will be in charge of climbing in the truck bed and retrieving them.