BreakState
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C1

Core module

Camp

Shelter, sleep, and cooking as one system.

The lesson

Six days, six nights. One pot, one spoon, one lid. That's when I understood weight budgeting.

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What this module forces

C1 collapses shelter, sleep, and cooking into one system. Because they trade off against each other, and pretending they don't is what breaks your back at day six.

The questions this module asks

Answer these honestly. Every trip.

  1. 01

    Can your shelter, bag, and mat handle the coldest night the trip could plausibly reach?

  2. 02

    Is your cook system one-pot or multi-piece? (One-pot is the answer.)

  3. 03

    What's the total weight of your camp system, and can your load-carrying platform handle it with margin?

  4. 04

    Do you know how long it takes you to set camp in a hurry? (You should.)

The verdict

Green, amber, red. For C1.

Green

One system, weight-audited, cold-tested, pitch time under 15 min.

Amber

System heavy or pitch time slow.

Red

Multi-piece cook kit, untested for cold, camp-set time unknown.

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