Chapter 167: Encampment
"I can walk on my own, I can go." Hong Tao's feet were almost off the ground, and it was even more uncomfortable to be dragged along like this.
"I'm a mother, I still have to climb the mountain......" looked at the hill bag Harrison said, it was really a hill bag, it was not 100 meters high in total, and the slope was also very gentle, according to Hong Tao's estimate, the straight-line distance over this hill was almost 3 kilometers or so, that is to say, it had to march for more than 1 hour with a load, and it was necessary to take his own life.
As the saying goes, looking at the mountain runs a dead horse! This small hill that looks only 3 kilometers away is enough for everyone to climb for 1 and a half hours, in fact, if it weren't for Hong Tao and Miss Liu dragging their feet, everyone's speed would be much faster, at least they didn't have to walk a few hundred meters to rest for a few minutes.
Hong Tao was not the worst, when he was 1 km behind, the beautiful Miss Liu couldn't move her legs, so she simply fell headlong in the snow and couldn't get up. Now Old Gale Coke, he drove a snowmobile, although the back seat and the front of the car were occupied with equipment and venison, but the front seat can squeeze two people, so Miss Liu was almost held in the arms of Old Gale, and then like a car shock, flickering away.
When Austin stopped in front of him and announced that the campsite had arrived, Hong Tao almost collapsed on the snow and couldn't get up. Originally, walking on mountain roads was not Hong Tao's strong point, and with the snow deep in his calves, although there were footprints of the people in front of him, it was still very physically laborious to walk.
"Hey, look, there's a hot spring ...... ahead," Erin leaned over and pulled Hong Tao, who was sitting on the trunk of a tree, to show him the other side.
"I don't want to think about it anymore, I don't even have the strength to raise my hand now. Give me a hand, this backpack is crushing me. Hong Tao sat there and could only gasp for air. I don't have the strength to take off my backpack on my own.
"Why do I think you're not as strong as you used to be, does it have something to do with Miss Zhou?" Erin helped him take off his backpack. While saying strange things.
"I'm still very fit in bed, I don't believe you can try it at night." As soon as the pressure was removed, Hong Tao immediately came back to life, which was embodied in the fact that the broken mouth began to spit out letters again.
"We'll talk about the night's things in the evening, but if you don't want to have no place to stay at night, then hurry up and set up a tent with me, you see that everyone else is busy, and you plan to be lazy?" Erin was not afraid of Hong Tao's mouth, she dragged Hong Tao up with a pull. Start looking for a camping spot in the campsite.
The camp is actually a clearing in the woods, surrounded by sparse trees, and next to a small stream, it is more convenient to get water. Does the creek freeze in such weather? Not really, not only is it not frozen, but the stream is still steaming, because there is a hot spring not far in front of it, and the area is not too large, but the temperature is obviously quite high. The water gurgled and gurgled and bubbled, like a big pot of water that was about to be opened.
Except for Miss Liu, everyone else present was busy setting up the camp as Erin said. Austin wields a long axe and is chopping down the trunk of a tree that has fallen down. It seems that they are preparing firewood, and the most important thing here is wood, and large tree trunks that should have fallen to the ground for various reasons can be found everywhere. The only thing needed is strength.
Hong Tao's tent was set up in a clearing among three large trees, which Erin had chosen. It's the farthest away from everyone, and it's blocked by two tree trunks that can't be held by anyone. The location is quite secluded. As for finding such a location to set up a tent for Lu He, Hong Tao didn't have the heart to think about it, and no one else interfered, as long as everyone was in each other's field of vision, there was no problem. Like Katie and Jim, the little couple ran farther than Hong Tao, and deliberately chose a tree trunk lying down as a cover.
When Hong Tao and Erin's small tent was set up, the bonfire in the camp had been lit, and at this time Hong Tao had already felt a little cold on his body, and he was sweating when he was marching just now, and now he was blown by the mountain wind, and his whole body was cold.
Found a piece of wood, Hong Tao first sat on the wind of the fire, here is a particular, when playing bonfire in the wild, unless there is no wind, otherwise you must sit on the wind, or you will get your face full of soot, a gust of thief wind blows, you have to burn a hole in your clothes, eyebrows and hair are also dangerous.
By this time, most of the people had already set up their tents and sat around the fire, making a campfire and waiting for lunch.
Lunch was made by Ignatius and Austin, who sawed off the two hind legs of a deer with a small saw, washed them in the hot spring water, put them on the grill and brushed them with their homemade barbecue sauce, and then took out the marinated fish and beef, and put them on the grill to heat up, which was the staple food of today's noon, and there was also a pot hanging on the small fire beside it, which was a soup made of green beans and ham.
In addition, they also brought some foods suitable for Chinese tastes, such as frozen dumplings, instant noodles and rice, and if Boss Liu's father and daughter and Hong Tao are not used to eating these simple barbecues, they can make some Chinese food.
In fact, these are a bit redundant, Chinese can eat anything, although they are not born meat-based, but when it comes to eating, these whites are not at all.
The morning's hiking made everyone present have a great appetite, and the food pie represented by Hong Tao and Miss Liu was even more super-level, and the two deer hind legs and a pot of soup were not wasted in the end, and the other food on the grill was also wiped out.
If you want to say that the food of this wild camping, the ingredients, taste, and heat cannot be compared with the dishes in the big restaurant, and even the craftsmanship at home cannot be compared. But there are two special things about this meal that cannot be compared in the restaurant and in the kitchen, and that is fresh and tender.
The venison that has just been dead for more than 1 hour is very tender, and the barbecue sauce of Austin's family just covers up the fishy smell in it, so although it feels a little coarse when you eat it, it is not firewood.
Another reason why this kind of picnic is delicious is that everyone is hungry, after a lot of physical effort, the appetite must be opened, people who like to engage in outdoor sports can experience this feeling, when rushing, carrying luggage, camping, eating a race of rice buckets.
Such a hard dish, according to the tradition of the Chinese, Boss Liu took out a bottle of liquor from his backpack, intending to let everyone drink some, not only to warm up, but also to relieve fatigue. However, his actions were stopped by Austin and Harrison, because he had to hunt in the afternoon, so drinking was not allowed, especially high alcohol.
After the meal, everyone sat down together, and rearranged the hunting plan, and after fully considering the suggestions of the three old hunters, Ignatius, Austin, and Harrison, everyone decided to divide the hunting party into two groups, two groups to go hunting, and one group to stay in the camp to guard, so that everyone could travel lightly and everyone could get enough rest.
After the test of the previous weight-bearing march, the physical fitness of everyone in the team is basically obvious, the worst of which is Miss Liu, then Hong Tao, and then the Erin sisters, Old Gail, Jim, Pavey and Boss Liu are considered to be a grade, Ignatius, Austin and Harrison belong to invincible existences.
In this way, the team will be easy to arrange, Miss Liu and Hong Tao must be separated, and which team to put such two rice buckets in will definitely give the guide who leads the team a headache. So in the end, Hong Tao was divided into the group of Gale Sr., Pavey, Erin, and Harrison, while the Liu father and daughter, Katie and Jim, Austin and Ignatius formed the second group. As for the team that suffered a little loss, it was decided by drawing lots to set off hunting first in the afternoon, and in the end, Hong Tao got the short bone that represented the loss by virtue of his excellent shit luck.
So the first group he represented immediately got into a state of full assembly, threw away all the useless things on their bodies, and set off with only guns and ammunition, first aid kits, a small amount of food and water, communication equipment, and a small sled, and of course Harrison's four hunting dogs, who also followed their owners to a full meal of venison, and ate more than people, and almost half of the deer body was killed by them. (To be continued......)