Disclaimer: I have no fucking idea what I’m doing. Copy me at your own risk.Using solar on a hike doesn’t really make sense until you’re about ten days or more between power points. Even then, it’s fiddly. You have to secure it to the top of your pack (not lackadaisically dangling off the back like you see in the marketing images), you need to charge a powerbank...
I made another quilt. This should be the last one for a while. I wanted to improve on the one I made a couple of years ago. That one was filled with down I reclaimed from some older sleeping bags. It has served me well, but I knew I could make one lighter and warmer. I based the design on the previous one, with a sewn footbox and more width around the torso than around the legs. I’ve been...
In a hammock, the best way of keeping your underside warm is a down quilt suspended underneath in such a way that it snugs up against you. I finally got around to making a new one; my third. The one I’ve been using for the last couple of years has given me a few nights on the edge of being too cold, and for the last six months I’ve had a box full of nice 850fp goose down sitting on...
I’ve created two routes for the AAWT that can be loaded into one’s GPS app of choice; one that describes the route more or less along official lines and the other that captures all the side trips suggested by Chapman. I’ve also finished re-doing my GPS waypoints for the walk (all 399 of them!), based on my own experience from last year and Chapman’s notes. This includes...
I’ve got a big post about hiking nutrition on the back-burner, but for now here’s a video mostly about a new windshield design I came up with, and a quick overview of my cook kit.
252.9km +14,317m -13,194m On the insanity that is Hammock Camping: The hammock itself is a single layer gathered-end from Dream Hammock; my second one from the company and I highly recommend them. The infinite customisation they offer can be daunting for the newbie, and they’re not the cheapest, but in my opinion well worth it. Their fit and finish is without equal. To scrimp on weight, mine is...
