At the other end of the continuum was the pair of Ohio hunters whom I guided for elk high in the Sapphires.
Long ago, old-time outdoorsmen water-proofed cotton tents and tarps with paraffin dissolved in naphtha ("white gas").
One of these hunters had one of those abominable old Army air-tight nylon tents with the entrance and vent tubes, and he'd soaked it in the paraffin-naphtha solution. (And overdid that to boot, I thought.) It was heavy, stiff, and cold. Weighed a ton and was Chinese torture to set-up. But my cozy lean-to was too "primitive" for them.
I slept under a huge tarp lean-to, on two bales of straw spread-out on the ground, with a home-made drum stove out in front of it. Very good night in sub-zero cold!
Their breaths condensed on the walls of that nylon-paraffin abomination, and they spent a night of self-inflicted torture in a puddle that soaked their sleeping bags. Took 'em quite a while to get warm the next morning. Sopping-wet down doesn't retain body heat very well!
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
