Another tulip
The ones in our garden have gone but this one was in my Mother’s garden.
Sunrise Black Combe – Lake District
Black Combe sunrise from our wild campsite on the edge of the Lake District – not the best weather today for sunrise photographs!
The visibility dropped before it was dark last night and It rained steadily all night. The winds were strong as well and blew some of the rain up under my flysheet and through the mesh inner tent.
This is a view of Richard’s tent – you can just see his stove on which he is cooking bacon, for the bacon baps he carried up to the and cooked for all of us.
Black Combe Wild Camp
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High Dam – Lake District
Before heading up to our campsite we had a walk through the forest up to High Dam.
We also stopped for lunch – here is the pie I mentioned in yesterday’s post.
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Backpacking Fuel – Broughton-in-Furness
We stopped off in Broughton-in-Furness looking for a café, whilst driving between between High Dam and Black Combe, where we were going to wild camp.
A quick fuel stop before we start walking
We found an excellent one on the square in the village, which served just what we were looking for, a cream tea. The scones, although not quite what Richard expected, were delicious, and the jam was homemade.
The Square Café, Broughton-in-Furness
Here is a link to their web site, so you can find it:
The Square Cafe, Bed and Breakfast and Gallery
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All good walking trips…
…start with a cooked breakfast. For a change today it was smoked bacon, American pancakes and syrup.
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Backpacking load for the weekend
Here is the itemised list, with weights, for my backpacking load this weekend:
Download the spread sheet from here
I have not yet listed the items in my new First Aid Kit (yet) – but the extra weight, over my previous kit, does include:
- a space blanket (58g)
- sterile water for eye wash or irrigating wounds (24g)
- my personal medicine (71g)
- a better crepe support bandage than I was carrying
- a larger case than I was using
The new case allows me to bring all my First Aid and medicines into one place, before they were spread out between several stuff sack and pouches. I will review the kit more fully after this weekend.
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Backpacking Food – “Star Wars” Camping Trip
Backpacking Food
I am off to the Lake District with friends tomorrow for an overnight wild camp. The following is the backpacking food I will be taking.
As we are planning to wild camp where this is no water available, it means that all the water I think I will need I will have to carry in. This menu is designed reduce my water needs to drinks only – no dehydrated food. I am planning to carry 2l of water up into the hills.
The plan is to day hike, on Saturday, down to one of the lakes. Then go back to the car, restock with water, pick up our main packs and head off to our camp site later in the afternoon.
Lunch Saturday
Extra to this I am going to buy a Sausage Pie from the village shop when we leave and add a banana. The plastic bag is for the rubbish and the “hint of lemon” is a hand wipe.
Saturday Dinner
The bread is Warburtons Brown Sandwich Thins, which are pre-sliced. I shall probably eat the granola bar with my first mug of tea at the campsite before the tent goes up.
Sunday Breakfast
Extra Food
Just in case I am a bit more hungry than I expect – I am planning to have the chocolate breakfast biscuits with my early morning tea, whilst I am still in my sleeping bag, admiring the view.
Drinks and extras
The small Nalgene bottle contains dry milk powder. The Chrysanthemen Honey Tea, which I get from a local Asian Supermarket, can be dissolved in either hot or cold water.
There are two items not shown:
I have a 60ml Nalgene bottle of fresh ground Costa Coffee and I my Brew Kit.
Why “Star Wars”?
Sunday is May the Fourth.
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