Getting Packing

 I've signed up to a children's cancer fundraising challenge again.  Last September I cycled 500 klm's over the month.  I felt good about:-

○ actually producing something from my exertions, that would benefit others.

○  pushing out from my comfort zone and upping my weekly cycling distances. 

○ improved fitness. 

○ getting others,  mostly family,  to focus on kids who were unwell & to reflect on our own health.  

There were no "cons" with the thing, so I was looking forward to participating again this year.  

So,  what will I do? Walk for 90 klm's. So my thinking is to take it out in one or two big hikes. I'd like to say its Camino Practice,  but no I can't really think that far ahead yet.  A quick look at my bank balance would convince you of that.  

As it's raining & blowing a gale & there's a possibility of local flooding,  I spent some time getting my kit together.  At this point I've packed:-

Sleeping bag & pad.  

Cooking kit & fuel.

Poncho. 

First aid kit. 

Totally weight 3.015kg including the 35 litre pack.  I need to add clothes,  food & water,  but that's a good base weight. 

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This week I found a long distance hiking podcast & today I listened to a discussion with Englishwoman (or Welsh?) who has logged some serious hiking mileages, 3500 m around Wales & several thousand more walling from the lower Danube in the Ukraine took Wales. Best of all is her approach:-

♡ shuns the term adventure. 

♡ dislikes self publicity. 

♡ has paid rent for only 1.5 years from the last 12 years. 

♡ is quite modest & irreverent when discussing herself, high favouring adventurers & western societies' attachment to high consumption lifestyle.  


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