Thanks Smokepole you saved me a lot of typing. I have made many multi-week trips to the Aleutians. Adak, Attu and Amchitka. Rarely did I see the sun and the wind never stopped. We mainly camped in abandoned WW2 structures and AEC era structures that leaked copiously. Old school polypro, pile, and 3 layer Goretex kept us alive and functional. This was in the '80s and gear is better now.
Fires are nice when possible but the Amchitka National Forest is a few Fir trees planted during WW2 that were about 3' tall when I was there.
My 1st meal of freeze dried was Chili to which that we didn't add enough water. I awoke in a new down bag that reeked beyond human levels.
mike r
