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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