Helpful everyday items.
Posted: Wed 08 Sep, 2010 9:32 pmTarp and singlet.
Pre-amble:
I started walking in Tassie, thinking to avoid all the dear gear. Mistaken of course, but there is a middle way. (The gearfreak is not a mythical beast and roams, never truly satisfied, deep within the psyche...)
So once you've forked out say, $1.5k for the "big 3+2(+2)" : -Pack -Mat -Jacket
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots
-Bag
the main game is done and the imagination can play. Ideas about weight reduction run free. I think,Tas.walking is a useful model to work back from, all the way up to the Kimberlys. ( Used to say 3+2(+1), because Boots are flexible. You could spend a week in the south west with joggers, if you forgot to pack the Asolos. )
Crux:
Cheap, blue 6x4 Tarp. 300gms. Tent floor protection for a very wet island, but other uses as well. Slips nicely into pack top
pocket (Cascade). Mine is 6'3"x 4'3" and fits perfectly under a Microlight so apologies, as this advice is particular to that tent size. But so hard to find that size; they often cut them smaller and leave floor edges widely unprotected.
Singlet, Holeproof (not Bonds): all cotton, but lightweight enough not to carry too much water and similarly, dries out from body warmth quite quickly. A great stink absorber and a flannel when stream washing: do your body,then the singlet then wring it out and put it on. It seems to work. Save money on the dear Merino wear that'll probably get moth holed within a season.
Pre-amble:
I started walking in Tassie, thinking to avoid all the dear gear. Mistaken of course, but there is a middle way. (The gearfreak is not a mythical beast and roams, never truly satisfied, deep within the psyche...)
So once you've forked out say, $1.5k for the "big 3+2(+2)" : -Pack -Mat -Jacket
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots
-Bag
the main game is done and the imagination can play. Ideas about weight reduction run free. I think,Tas.walking is a useful model to work back from, all the way up to the Kimberlys. ( Used to say 3+2(+1), because Boots are flexible. You could spend a week in the south west with joggers, if you forgot to pack the Asolos. )
Crux:
Cheap, blue 6x4 Tarp. 300gms. Tent floor protection for a very wet island, but other uses as well. Slips nicely into pack top
pocket (Cascade). Mine is 6'3"x 4'3" and fits perfectly under a Microlight so apologies, as this advice is particular to that tent size. But so hard to find that size; they often cut them smaller and leave floor edges widely unprotected.
Singlet, Holeproof (not Bonds): all cotton, but lightweight enough not to carry too much water and similarly, dries out from body warmth quite quickly. A great stink absorber and a flannel when stream washing: do your body,then the singlet then wring it out and put it on. It seems to work. Save money on the dear Merino wear that'll probably get moth holed within a season.