I have often written about this. You should refer to the post A Hiking Food Compendium but here are a few we have been gnawing on lately. I long ago suggested you should just buy from the supermarket instead of the expensive (and largely inedible) specialist hiking meals from camping shops which even our dogs […]
Nitecore’s NU25 rechargeable torch is very hard to beat – though no doubt it will be (by their next model). It weighs around 28 grams without the band (which weighs another 23 grams). You can save 22 of these grams (as I have done here) by fitting a piece of dyneema cord and a micro-cord
Let it be a golden rule with you that you always carry some form of shelter with you when you are out and about. You can lose heat very quickly in cold. soaking rain and soon be in desperate trouble unless you have some form of shelter. The humble garbage (or trash) bag is quite
Spot and I have been away for a few days enjoying camping next to a lovely fishing hole along one of our remote Victorian mountain rivers. This small trip has highlighted for me more than anything else how much I need a new knee. Though it was only 6-8 trackless kilometres each way over fairly
I have been making a new floor for my Grey Flyer Tent. You should understand that this tent doubles as a hammock tarp. Here it is in action in High Flying. The roof in this 1.15 oz/yd2 material weighs around 310 grams with tie outs and guys. As you can see it is big enough
RipstopbytheRoll have a ‘new insect mesh which I will be using instead of my usual .7 oz/yd2 ‘Noseeum’ mesh in future if I want to bugproof any of my tents etc. It is called Monolite the lighter version of which is the same weight as the ‘traditional’ Noseeum but this stuff is stronger and the
A year ago today: Into Vic’s high country with The Grey Flyer. At last our draconian Covid restrictions have been eased a bit and we are able to get away hunting/hiking for a few days by ourselves. It is almost too late for this year’s deer hunting season though, as soon it will be too
This is an addendum to this post The Overnight Tent Stove. The self-fueling tube works! Proof of concept: A 2″ x 8″ plastic tube filled with approx 1 cm gum pellets. Approx 1 gram of wood per 1 mm of height so I could just about fit 1.5 metres in my Grey Flyer Tent which
This ‘Holy Grail’ of backpacking adventurers, fishers, hunters, skiers etc is inching closer and closer. Admittedly I have some work to do yet – and I also hope for assistance from other like-minded folks such as the indefatigable Tim Tinker for example. His wonderful website is here. I am coming at this from several ‘angles’
I get it that you might not be able to sew but I don’t get that you can’t learn and can somehow afford to buy $500+ tents and other such nonsense but you can’t buy a $200 sewing machine and make your own even better tent for <$50, but maybe I can start you on
