{"id":823,"date":"2013-02-03T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-01-25T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T22:39:46","slug":"20130203-day-hike-with-mission-pine-needle-tea-gear-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"2013\/02\/03 – Day hike: mission pine needle tea + gear testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the last week I have been cleaning up my “man cave”, since it was getting too full.
\nI mean, who needs 7 hammocks, 5 tarps, etc.
\nSo during the cleaning process, I was thinking about giving some stuff away…<\/p>\n

A friend of mine in the UK, started also with day hikes and what some people call bushcraft. To motive him a bit I figured that I could send him one of my DIY tarp & hammock and a simple cook set.<\/p>\n

Also, it’s been a while that I had pine needle tea, and for some reason I really felt for drinking it.
\nSo what to do…
\nI grabbed my bag, put there my small cook set that you can see in 1 of my youtube video’s here on my blog under the “My gear” section, took my knife, hammock and tarp and simple cook set that I prepared for my friend, and went into a small forest close by, to test it out, and shoot a short video for my friend, explaining how to set it all up.<\/p>\n

The area I had chosen on google maps, turned out nicer then expected.<\/p>\n

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After about 15 minutes walk next to a small stream, i heard some branches cracking behind me, and a group of +\/- 10 deer was crossing the small stream.
\nI quickly grabbed my camera, but of course missed them all..
\nHere below is where they where crossing the stream<\/p>\n

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So I continued walking, following the stream to find a suitable place with some pine tree’s.<\/p>\n

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The roots for this tree looked quite nice, worth a picture.<\/p>\n

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And here a wooden stake was long ago put next to the tree I guess, but now the tree has grown around it for the most part. Quite interesting how nature sometimes overtakes..<\/p>\n

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I found a few small pine tree’s, where I took a handful of the youngest looking branches.<\/p>\n

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Time to test out the tarp & hammock, and make the video.<\/p>\n

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After setting up, I prepared the pine needle tea. Here boiling the water from the stream.<\/p>\n

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Water is boiling, now letting it cool down for a few minutes and then adding the chopped up pine needles.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>I decided to lift one side up by tying it a bit higher to some tree’s, so I would have a better view while I would enjoy the tea and my cuban cigar from the hammock.<\/p>\n

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True pleasure \ud83d\ude42
\nHanging in the hammock, viewing a nice landscape in +1 Celsius, with a cuban cigar and a nice cup of warm pine needle tea \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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<\/a>The end \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the last week I have been cleaning up my “man cave”, since it was getting too full. I mean, who needs 7 hammocks, 5 tarps, etc. So during the cleaning process, I was thinking about giving some stuff away… A friend of mine in the UK, started also with day hikes and what some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-outdoor-trips","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}