up for it

[Hammerhead]

wanting to make a trek sometime this spring. any of the fellas from ohio or indiana up for it

[crazell]

Depends on where your trekking at?? PM me with your idea.

[Hammerhead]

im thinking of hoosier national forest wayne national forest or red river gorge in daniel boone national forest

[mattdanison]

Carried in haversack:
56 ounces of water in a copper canteen for the day-long hike.  If necessary I can boil water in it.  Westminster Forge made mine.  Unfortunately it weighs almost 8 pounds when full of water.  Canteens are a military thing; normal people traveled by canoe or horse near water.
(If there is no safe water source, before the trip hide some plastic jugs of water near destination)
Aquamira Frontier Emergency Water Filter System is my backup plan; costs 5 dollars and weighs 1 oz.
Don't drink river water or use water treatment tablets; I always get diarrhea.  Boil it or have a cache.

"Map case" or cloth/roll-up of some sort with the following:
Compass (useful for turning map to face North or traveling in a straight line and not much else.  All you have to do is go 5 miles in a straight line and you'll hit a road.)  Sun and stars also available.
Map of the area
Small journal and 2 pencils; useful for noting what you used, what you needed, what you didn't use.  Also, keeping a journal of your experience is part of why you're out there.  Re-read years later....
Camera
Spectacles
Small lithium flashlight for emergencies... such as signaling to air boat guys after I got lost when the sun went down and the marsh looked the same in every direction.  There was no solid land and the flashlight saved me from sleeping in my 12' canoe.  I trek alone and consider this a safety device.
Bandanas x 2
Twine/Jute roll—useful for everything
Leather laces—easier to untie
"Necessary" paper in a ziplock bag hidden inside wax paper.  Paper towels are better than leaves....

Inside bedroll carried tumpline fashion:
3' x 5' oilskin from tentsmiths.com; used for groundcloth, rain tarp, or rain poncho.  1.5 pounds
4 point wool blanket made by Rob Stone.  Weighs 4.0 pounds and is good down to almost 40 degrees
If it might get colder, I'll carry a modern "poncho liner" as backup; very lightweight.  If it gets colder than that, I don't go.  The Indians didn't campaign in the snow and neither do I.
Bed sheet for mosquito netting.  Ear plugs alone are not enough!  Can serve as a rain fly or pillow too.  But not very well.

Inside the bedroll is a pillowcase containing the following:

Smaller, white, pillowcase.  Useful for putting ALL of your small items on top of.  Nothing lost....

"Tinderbox" with convex burning lens, dry tinder/dryer lint, Bic lighter and matches.  Your flintlock can also be used to create sparks.
Small hand soap in a small tin.  Rub some on the exterior of your cooking cup to aid in cleaning it.
Fishing tin with hand lines and corks x 2.  Fishing and hunting license
Candle in a small tin can, punched to let light out on one side
Wool socks from smartwool.com  Put extra pair on hands while sleeping.
Moccasins for walking around camp

Shaving tin with
aspirin
large band-aids (for blisters or cuts)
dental floss
small toothbrush

Rations bag with:
Hot tea
Beef bouillon cubes
Rum flask
Flat bread (pita bread) wrapped in wax paper (simulates parchment paper) and tied with a string
Dried fruits wrapped in wax paper.  I put the dried fruit inside the flat bread (taco style) for breakfast
Beef jerky for lunch while walking
Salt
Small onion
Waxed hard cheese or goat cheese
If you don't catch any fish or squirrel for dinner you can make a stew of beef bouillon, diced jerky, diced onion, and crumbled flat bread
Historically, rations were carried in the haversack, not the bedroll.  For me, anything I don't need during the day's trek goes in the bedroll; carried tumpline style.

I try not to cook any meals at all.  If someone has a fire going I'll ask to boil some water at their fire and have a hot drink.  Otherwise, I cold camp, only building enough fire to boil a cup of water for tea or hot bouillon.   A nice campfire is cheerful company and a lot of work.

Copper or tin cup (16 oz.) for boiling water.  I use a 16 oz. "soldier's cup" from Westminster Forge.
Wooden spoon.  Horn spoons melt.
Wooden cup for drinking hot tea while more water is boiling

On my person:
2 large pillow cases wrapped and tied around lower legs to protect pants.  In camp, useful for carrying firewood or fill with dead leaves to make a warm, soft padding between you and the cold, hard ground.

6" belt knife  Wick Ellerbe makes very good ones

Small knife always, always hanging around my neck
Cell phone and whistle never, ever leave my body.  Carried in belt pouch with my extra spectacles.

Rifle
Shooting bag
Powder horn

That's it.  I don't carry rope or a hatchet.  If I need to break wood I'll cut a notch in it and lean it against a rock and stomp on it

Historical trekking isn't as easy as I thought it would be.  It took me one year to study and gather my equipment.  A lot of it I found in thrift stores for 1 or 2 dollars, but it took time to find.  Some things cannot be found and I had to order them.  I have mentioned them above.  After that, I started trekking/camping with some pretty grand plans of going on 8 day scouts.  Well, I froze on my first trip (Jan 2011) and went home in the middle of the night.  The next was a 3 day trip, I carried too much gear, and went home the next morning.    Same for the next trip and the next trip.  My latest was Dec 2011 and I could not canoe across the lake because of high winds.  But I learned.  And I'm still learning.  That's the fun part.  Trying to carry less and less.  What did Joseph Plumb Martin carry as he campaigned against the British?  Not much, I'm sure.

Mark Bakers's "A Pilgrims Jorney" Vol. I and II are great.

Ben thinkin' 'bout cuttin' me buttons off t' sav weight.
Cheers my friends,
The above info is offered a guideline to those trekking in the Southeast