I'll go along with what Beaverman says. You can sit on a folded blanket for a rondy or two until you see what passes at the ones you want to go to. Same with cooking gear. Just don't for the love of G-d go with thrift store aluminum. Had one blockhead argue that "Well, it's old ain't it?" Hard to argue with that lack of logic.
Do your cooking in el-cheapo BLACK graniteware, that way when it comes time to upgrade, you're not out a lot, or just use it for blanket prizes and help someone else start out. It also doesn't stand out and just look silly. Give some consideration to other's sensibilities, You wouldn't like it if you'd spent twenty years researching and obtaining a museum quality camp then have some maroon set up next door with coleman stoves, coleman lanterns, stainless steel pots and pans, and an army surplus bivouac tent, and blue plastic tarps, would you? Remember, dull earth tone colors and keep things simple.
A cheap light canvas tarp can be set up a dozen different P-C ways, make a lean-to or a diamond fly until you get an idea what you'd like and can live with. In my dotage and decripitude, I actually need a cot, so I can get up again in the morning without a lot of pain, but when I first started out, in my mid forties, I slept on a Therm-a-Rest on top of an army surplus poncho, covered with a red trade blanket all sheltered by a tarp lean-to. Used that for a coon's age and was even complemented on my camp. I cooked in two graniteware kettles, a gallon and a half gallon. Drank out of a plain redware mug, still do.
Don't go spending a lot of money, you can gear up on the cheap, then upgrade as you learn.
Three Hawks
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