Do not try to mimic the home environment in the woods. Try to expand your definition of comfort to something far beyond that fuzzy place where you can sleep with your feet out of the blankets. You can get away with just enough sleeping bag. You can use a tarp in a snowstorm, or during bug season. You can sleep, well, in the wilderness without a book, ipod, earplugs, whisky, or lunesta. You can go a bit hungry with no mental or physical ill effects. Unless you are foolish, there is a massive gap between what most of us think as dangerously cold, and what actually is. That 1:100,000″ map will do just fine. Comfort in the backcountry is a self-overcoming, and thus never finished.

Bedrock & Paradox | Quit being comfortable