I just love operating HF from the great outdoors, and FD 2013 was a great weekend to do that.  This year  I operated battery power QRP (class 1-B) with nearly 100% of the contacts made using CW.  I operated from the Ledges Shelter near the trailhead parking of the Escoheag Trail in the  Arcadia Willdlife Management Area (Exeter, RI).  The shelter is about a 2 - 3 minute walk up the trail from the parking area, so  I hauled my gear to the site using a hand-truck.  My station consisted of my Icom IC-7000 and a 135 foot  multi-band doublet fed to my manual tuner using 450 ohm ladder line.  It worked very well, with coast to coast contacts using just 5 watts of power.  Most stations answered me on the first call. It was 100% search and pounce.  My normal CW copy speed is about  18 wpm  and I still need to copy on paper and then transfer the info to the N3FJP logging software.  This along with QRP prevented me from holding a frequency but I didn't care, I was having fun.  I still managed to put 136 contacts into the log.  I had a 100 amp-hour battery to power my station and keep my laptop computer running all weekend with plenty of juice to spare.   My friend Jeff, W1QL, joined me again this year,  but as we usually  do, he operated his own station using his own call  and his own antenna, although he ran about 50-60 watts SSB.  We took many breaks from the radios to chat, eat, enjoy this beautiful location,  and get about 6 hours of shut eye . I even went on a short hike on Sunday.  I used my small backpacking tent and my new dual 40/60 degree rated sleeping bag for my sleeping arrangements.  On Saturday evening I boiled the water for my freeze dried backpacker's beef stew using the Hobo Stove I recently built from a tin can.  That was pretty cool.  The weather was perfect, the band conditions were pretty good, and it overall it was a fabulous weekend of ham radio and outdoor fun.