12/2011 Fieldcraft @ Paddy Creek AAR

[Mr.Spank]

-packing your plash-pilotka on the bottom of your vesh, is brilliant.  It leaves a relatively flat surface on top to tie stuff onto the shoulder straps.

Do you mean like I have it here?



(these photos are from a living history thing I was in this Summer, not connected to the events in this AAR, just used as a visual reference)

I didn't come up with this configuration. This is how it was done by my friend who served in the Red Army in the very early 90s.

And its "Plash-Palatka"
A pilotka is the (ahem) "cunt cap"

[Phoenix]

I am super jealous! It sounds like you guys get to have Eastwind all the time! Sort of.

Thanks for working all the kinks out so that Eastwind gets better each year.

[Stagg]

More pictures.

Z, using the M882 to good advantage.  Napping after a long weekend of walking, walking, walking.



Metal, walking and hauling his gear.  My Alice Pack was putting a hurting on me, but these guys were keeping up with their Russian "sack O'stuff" which didn't carry well at all.


Shtirlitz, standing by the Paddy Creek Wilderness sign.  This was the about the only marker we saw along the trail.  There was this one at the trail head, and then.... nothing, but a slight depression in the ground that was the leaf covered trail.


More walking.


Getting down into the creek was often quite a trip!  Other times there was water flowing off the top of the ridge.  This spring near our camp originated near the top, and then moved down the hill; sometimes it flowed underground, and sometimes above.