camping

Walking and Camping

I am backpacking today from outside Horncastle to the Camping and Caravan Club site near Woodhall Spa.

It is not a very long walk so I have one or two bits of extra gear with me as the pack weight is not critical. I have a 10Ah power supply for my iphone as I plan to watch a couple of videos tonight. I have a Chicken Chow Mein microwave meal with me so I have packed my larger Alpkit MiTiMug to cook it in as well as bringing my smaller titanium mug/cook pot.

For a change the weather is perfect – so I have packed extra water and one of my bottles contains an electrolyte drink.

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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

backpacking load

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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Camping Food

Camping Food

I am going camping next weekend, probably to the Peak District. The plan is to get a cooked breakfast on the way, spend the day walking and taking photographs then onto a campsite for the night. I am not backpacking with this food, it is a car based trip.

Camping Food

As I am away next week on business I am sorting the gear and camping food this weekend. Packed in the bag above is the evening meal, breakfast and the extras! Not shown in the photo is trail food for the Saturday and some apples.


Trail Food

Trail Food

I am going the add a banana or apple to this – and I am planning to get my Alpkit Kraku stove out along the way to make the 2-in-1 coffee. Hygiene is essential when camping and walking, hence the hand wipe and napkin.

Evening meal

Evening Meal

Once the tent is up I am having soup and crackers.

Chicken Chow Mein is a microwave meal from the supermarket. I am going to empty the contents of both packs into my Alpkit MiTiMug, heat, stir and eat. Instant custard for dessert.

Extras

Extras

There are tea bags and dried milk in the red neoprene pouch.

The two 60ml Nalgene bottles contain fresh ground coffee and dried milk. If fresh milk is available at the campsite I shall buy some.

Some of the mint chocolate is going to be broken up and added to the hot instant custard.

The breakfast biscuits are for having with my early morning tea whilst still in my sleeping bag.

Breakfast

Breakfast

I am going to mix the jam and dried fruit into the porridge – which can be made with either dried or fresh milk. The yogurt flakes I will eat with fresh coffee.

I am heading home after breakfast so no lunch.

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Pendennis Point Falmouth

The weather was great today – we had breakfast outside, got a good days walking in on Pendennis Point, Falmouth, had a cream tea in Tresillian, sitting in their garden and ended up cooking and eating our evening meal outside. The downside to all this sunshine is that there is not a cloud in the sky as the sun is going so it looks like it will be a cold night.

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