The rain clouds have gone
I am backpacking tomorrow so I have an eye on the weather. It has been raining and hailing hard today but this evening it looks a little better.
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Busy Day
The day started before breakfast with a callout for a broken email server and continued with installing a new PC to a network and then fixing IE for a third client. I did see some spectacular clouds whilst travelling between jobs but the schedule meant I had no time to stop. By the time I got home it was raining hard so the photo is shot from inside, where it was dry.
I am going backpacking this weekend – we are officially in a drought, so it will not be raining.
Compression Sack
I have got a better quality compression sack to hold both my sleeping bag and spare clothes.
I looked at several different models of compression sack but opted for this Lifeventure model as it was the lightest, but with a design that distributed the compression evenly. My Eurohike sleeping bag came with a lightweight compression bag but it only used straps rather than a cap for the compression so there were bulges in the final compressed bag so adding to the size – and I needed a smaller size.
I chose a 15l sack, when a 10l sack may have been large enough, as I was thinking ahead to the multi-day trips I have planned for the future, when I will have to pack extra clothing. On testing it still made a smaller packed size with the sleeping bag and overnight spare clothes than the original sleeping bag compression sack.
