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The 8 key ideas

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Rest in the woods is a real need

   Sears opens with a worry that still sounds familiar. Americans, he says, work without pause, and the strain snaps something inside many of them. He agrees with the thinker Herbert Spencer that overwork ruins people.

   His second point is about money. Hurried people will pay a great deal for rest, and most get cheated. The summer visitor gets about ten cents of value for each dollar spent. A rich man can hire guides and boats and never notice the cost. Sears writes for the mechanics, clerks, artists and merchants who need rest badly and can afford very little.

   The remedy comes from more than fifty years of practice, and it is a plain one. Go to the forest, and carry less. Men gathered around a winter stove always agree that they took too much gear. The pull of one more handy item is strong, and the result is a load fit for a pack mule. For Sears the woods are medicine, and a trip that wears you out defeats its own purpose.

   Plan every outing around rest, because rest is what you are buying.

2. 2

   Travel light and pack only what you use

   Sears holds that a woodsman's clothing should be simple and soft.

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3. 3

   Make the woods comfortable and stay calm

   Sears dislikes the phrase roughing it.

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4. 4

   A good camp is dry, light and open

   Sears tested many shelters over thirty years, and his standard is clear.

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5. 5

   Build a small, steady fire, not a bonfire

   Sears thinks the campfire matters nearly as much as the camp.

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6. 6

   Fish with sense and suit the tackle

   Sears admits that fly fishing for brook trout is the finest sport of its kind, but he refuses to be a purist.

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   Cook plainly and keep your dishes clean

   Sears argues that camp cooking is done worse than any other part of outdoor life, though good food is easy to find.

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8. 8

   Light boats and wild country repay respect

   Sears tests his own advice on a ten-day walk through the Michigan wilderness, alone, to a lumber camp on the Muskegon River.

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