Forgot it! your improvisation stories.

[wildwanderer]

Overnight trip a few weeks ago. Limited space so to avoid sparks on the fly I waited to setup until bed time.

At that point realised I'd forgotten my pole extender and it was impossible to find a good rock in the dark. Cursing and resigned to a annoyingly low net and fly I had a brain wave!

I can use my pot! Worked like charm!

Anyone else got improvisation stories?

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[Petew]

Two broken tent poles whilst snow camping and only one pole splint. Pot handle to the rescue. Cook pots are handy it seems.

[Aardvark]

In NZ, between activities and having a broken snow shoe strap. None available in any store that's practical to go to. It's close to end of day.
Visited the back of a tyre shop to seek a bit of inner tube rubber from the bin. Cut my own and continued on to the next trailhead.
Worked for days and the end of holiday.

[Huntsman247]

In my early days off walking I got a really bad case of gastro. In the middle of a week long traverse hike. My first aid kit was pretty crap back then with not much helpful stuff in it. So when whisky couldn't fix the gastro, I resorted to making a fire and eating some charcoal. Which I might add, was so sandy despite trying to clean it as best as I could.
It's still painful to think back to the sandy charcoal but it did the trick. I was considerably better the next morning and fine by night.

[Moondog55]

Lost my plastic spoon to a hot fire and had to carve one from a lump of snowgum using my Swiss Army Knife

[stepbystep]

Meet Frankenpaddle. I left the middle(joining) section of my five piece paddle at home, discovered as much after a 3 hour drive, 8 hour walk in to the Crossing River. I fashioned a joiner out of a piece of eucalypt which snapped on the third day on the river, this is the second version using some huon pine(!), some 3mm cord and a heap of strapping tape. This version got me down the Davey River and across Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour!!!

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