Camping

Sleeping Bag

24 January 2013 / Backpacking, Camping, Outdoor Gear / lightweight backpacking, outdoor gear

Yesterday one of the outdoor shops in Inverness was having a sale – and I found a sleeping bag to replace the rubbish sleeping bag I bought last year.

In the shop, I was able to get into the bag to try it for size and comfort.

It is filled with down, weighs just less than 1kg and is warm to about zero centigrade – it will reduce weight and space in my rucksack for backpacking.

Robens Down Lite 500

packed and compressed

The specification looks to be just what I was looking for. I hope it is made well enough to keep the down inside the bag and that it is warm. The real test will be during my next camping trip.

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Walk along Loch Tay – tea break

14 January 2013 / Camping, Outdoor Gear, Travel, Walking / iPhone photography, outdoor gear, Photos 2013, Scotland, snow, tea, walking

As followed the route along the Loch there was a convenient picnic area for a tea break.

I carry the meths bottle in an outside mesh pocket, on my rucksack, which meant I did struggle to light the meths as it was very cold.

Here is the view from my cafe – menu, fresh hot tea with custard creams.

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Travel Tap – Micro Purification Water Filter Bottle

8 January 2013 / Backpacking, Camping, Outdoor Gear / backpacking, lightweight backpacking, outdoor gear

Jeremy bought me this bottle for Christmas – the specs are here.

This is a really simple, lightweight, way to produce safe drinking water whilst I am backpacking or wild camping. No moving parts, batteries or pumps – drink straight from the bottle or use it to fill another water container or pot. When I wild camped in the Lakes last year I carried 3l or 3kg of water, my pack without the water weighed less than 9kgs – in the future I can top up along the way and save weight.

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Veryan Campsite pt9

4 November 2012 / Camping, Photography, Travel / camping, Cornwall, Photos 2012

It was an early start today to pack up and head home.

It rained most of the night and then stopped at about 5am and started to freeze. The tents went away clean but wet, we got cold packing and almost completed the packing before the first shower came.

and then we were gone

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Veryan Campsite pt8

3 November 2012 / Camping, Travel / camping, Cornwall, tea

This is our last evening at Veryan Camping and Caravan Club Site, for this trip and the weather was good enough to sit outside and have tea and biscuits.

There was also time for one more shot of a sunset over our tents.

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St Austell

3 November 2012 / Camping, Photography / camping, Cornwall, Photos 2012

We had a short walk around St Austell, this morning, to stock up on some supplies and to go to the bank, before heading out to the coast.

St Austell – Market House

Charlestown

This is a small port town near to St Austell where they used to ship china clay from and it is still a working harbour today. By the time Jeremy and I had finished our lunch it had started to rain – so I had to use the waterproof pouch to protect my iPhone whilst taking the pictures. The rain also shortened our planned walk.