tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088786286035139489.post9050001810392519537..comments2024-03-05T00:55:00.520-08:00Comments on the outdoor diaries: Strictly come campingPaulinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893037362362564351noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088786286035139489.post-83467934707220778272013-12-26T12:32:49.019-08:002013-12-26T12:32:49.019-08:00Thanks, Tony. It's always great to hear from l...Thanks, Tony. It's always great to hear from like-minded individuals. If porridge is not your thing try Readybrek pre-mixed with milk powder and then add a film cannister of honey - yummy and no cooking, you just have to boil the water.<br /><br />Have a great Xmas yourself and look forward to swapping stories in 2014. Best wishes. PaulinePaulinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893037362362564351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088786286035139489.post-87566033051483790672013-12-24T03:30:35.852-08:002013-12-24T03:30:35.852-08:00You do pick some fabulous places to camp!
My fi...You do pick some fabulous places to camp! <br /><br />My first tent was a Vango Force 10 Mk3, also an A-frame but I could pitch it single handed in any weather in 5 minutes. Apart from the Akto I currently use, the Force 10 has always been my favourite tent, although it did weigh 20lbs dry and much more when wet, so not great for solo back-packing.<br /><br />I love the opportunities that backpacking and wild camping offers in getting close to the local fauna. I did once have a frog hop onto my face while I was asleep - I didn't appreciate that so much. And close encounters with Pack Rats and Porcupines on my first trip to the Canadian Rockies, when I'd only taken a bivvi bag, to save weight. Some Whooper Swans once gave me an early morning wake up call on a TGO Challenge. I felt something cold and thought one was poking its bill in my ear but it was the toggle on the sleeping bag.<br /><br />The de-cluttering and simplification to life (where is the path? where am I going to camp? what am I going to eat?), which wild camping brings is intensely satisfying and eating breakfast in the door of the tent, looking out across a mirror-glass loch or across to snow capped hills is unbeatable. I've never got the whole porridge enjoyment thing, mind you - I think you Scots are ever so slightly weird about your porridge ;¬)<br /><br />Have a great Xmas Pauline and lots of fab adventures in 2014.Tony Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11587011681927202159noreply@blogger.com