Lukas’s Teapee
A linear country park passing through fifteen miles of countryside
along the former Bishop’s Stortford to Braintree railway, you
could travel between Braintree and Bishop’s Stortford in
around 45 minutes. The passenger service was closed in 1952, but
steam, and later diesel locos continued with goods traffic until
the line finally closed in 1969.
Open to walkers, cyclists and horse riders, the Flitch Way is flat
and mostly traffic free. This will take you through wildlife-rich
railway cuttings, Victorian stations and bridges, with views across
impressive farmland, nearby villages and woods. There are many
public footpaths exploring the countryside just off the route.
A tepee or tipi is a structure that is a conical portable
nomadic structure with two adjustable smoke flaps, multiple poles,
and a detachable cover over the structure. The cover historically
used buffalo skins; an optional skin/cloth lining; and a canvas or
skin door.
Tepees are distinguished from other tents by two crucial
innovations: the opening at the top and the smoke flaps, which
allow the dweller to cook and warm themselves with an open fire,
and with a lining that is primarily used in the winter, which
insulates while providing a source of fresh air for the fire and
dwellers. Tepees are designed to be easily set up to allow camps to
be moved to follow game migrations, especially the bison. The long
poles could be used to construct horse-pulled travois. Tepee covers
are made by sewing together strips of canvas or hide and cutting
out a semicircular shape from the resulting surface. Trimming this
shape yields a door and the smoke flaps that allow the dwellers to
control the chimney effect to expel smoke from their fires. The
poles, made of peeled, polished and dried tapering saplings, are
cut to measure about two metres more than the radius of the
cover.
You are looking for a 450ml. lock top box, stealth is
required.