While we’ve touched on the philosophy of wild camping, to give it a grand term, and just about everything wild camping in previous posts. There’s still the overriding question for the majority of wild campers of whether to share or not to share. Here are a few thoughts from the Mud and Routes crew: 1 – Smell. […]
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With tents becoming so lightweight, it seems perverse to go out into the wilds with what’s basically a waterproof sleeping bag cover and with barely any weight benefit. Most of the cheaper ex-army type of bivvy bags are actually heavier than your typical 1kg lightweight tent. So why bother? Reducing the experience down to the
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You may be tempted to bivvy out by virtue of the romance of sleeping out under the stars, or by a more clinical need to pare weight to the bare minimum. Whatever your inspiration, or if you’re just a little bit curious as to wether this is for you, then you’ll benefit from reading the Book of
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The GoGo Ex is the VW camper vans of tents. You may be able to get something larger, lighter and more modern but not anywhere near as cool or quirky. Lets start with the down sides. This is not a tent, but rather a huge bivvy. There’s not a lot of space inside and you
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On a recent shopping trip, during my usual foray into the ready meals aisle, I found these inexpensive pasta puck meals. Are these cheap and cheerful meals from Tesco any good as a camping meal? We find out. Available in bolognese and tuna varieties, these cost only£1.29 compared to a Wayfarers at around £4 or a Look What
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It took me a while to be convinced of the merits of this device, but as I needed to take reading matter on a 4 night trip into the wilds, it was the ideal time to give a Kindle Touch a try out. The reading experience is as expected, brilliant. Words are crisp, even in
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We awoke on the penultimate morning again to wonderfully sunny weather, just as we had the previous two mornings and was set to hold until the evening. The first few days had been tough, yet we’d only covered 30km taken at a leisurely pace. We had two days left in order to get to Glenfinnan
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Knoydart holds a place in most adventurous walker’s hearts, either as somewhere to reminisce about or to aspire to. It’s one of those places that should be near the top of your to do list, and still is on mine even if I’ve only just returned! Knoydart is a peninsula on the West Coast of Scotland, yet
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If you’re fed up eating the same old dried meals while you’re camping, Moveable Feasts by Amy-Jane Beer and Roy Halpin contains everything you’d ever want to know about camp cookery and then a fair bit more. Split into two unequal sections, the first section starts off with a ten chapter detailed reference section which contains anything and everything
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You’ve already got into walking, wild camped a bit and know how to use a map and compass; you need another challenge. Walking one of the many long distance paths could be what you need this summer. Where to go? With so many options, this is probably the hardest part. You’ll nee to decide if
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I think, even if it is a publicity stunt, that Vango appear to have won this one with their ‘Tent in Space’ video! Just try saying “Tent in Space” without sounding like it should fit into a Muppet’s episode. They don’t, however mention how one is meant to breathe during said camp…
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You could argue that the real challenge in producing a lightweight tent is not in producing the lightest per se, but rather the lightest tent that’s useable in most conditions the UK will throw at it. Terra Nova have managed over the years to excel in both, with the world’s lightest double walled tent in
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We recently stumbled across Fuizion freeze driedfoods, a brand that was new to us. On browsing their site, it becomes apparent from the photographs that this stuff stands apart from other freeze dries foods if only by being ridiculously photogenic. We couldn’t believe that this product could possibly look as good as the website makes out! We all
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If the thought of summer nights spent out high on the summits is something you’re looking forward to then why not kip near a trig with a bivvy? Here are five of the best bivvy bags for under a ton. 1 – Alpkit Hunka – £30 and 420g. Available only online, this has to be the cheapest
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We were recently blessed by the om nom fairy and received a full box of lovely Look What We found pouches to review. We received free food, which always makes us happy, especially when it’s as good as this! If you’ve not seen these before, the Look What We found are a regular brand of
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There’s nothing new under the sun they say, but here’s at least one! Perfect coffee in a pouch. We’ve been in search of the perfect camping coffee since, well, since forever, and while we get closer we never quite get there. We got excited about the camping espresso maker by GSI, but were woefully disappointed
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If you want what’s definitely the cheapest and possibly the lightest camping stoves going, then you’re going to have to go for a ‘Pepsi’ can stove. Often called a pop can stove, usually Pepsi and never a Coca-Cola can stove despite the prevalence of the red can on most of the links later on. The adventurous can even
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Pegs are hardly the most glamorous piece of kit, yet you know you’ll be totally stuffed without them. However, with the Candy Canes, Alpkit manage to produce the good looking supermodel of pegs. I know that they also do stick thin titanium pegs that having not a gram of anything else above and beyond the
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OK, it’s not as if it’s the world’s biggest adventure. I can see the coastal path from my office window during the day job and if I crane my neck I can even see the Newborough Forest from the spare bedroom window. Yet a seemingly stolen week off work before it really gets busy has crept up
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Who needs a pillow when a rolled up jumper will suffice? Well, if you’re going really light weight and you’ve no spare clothing, then this may be a necessity as opposed to a luxury if you want a night’s sleep. The Ajungilak Air Pillow is lightweight (145g or so) takes up barely no space in
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Why follow someone else’s idea when you can get out a set of maps and create your own?! We plan our Escape From Knoydart trip and show you how you can plan your own week long backpack. You’ll need: A week or so off work OS Maps at 1:25k and possibly 1:50k, or Harvey’s Mountain
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While there are many Scottish Great Trails, these are the four original Scottish long distance routes (LDRs), similar to the England and Wales National Trails, plus the daddy of them all – the unofficial Cape Wrath Trail. I’ll admit that I can’t be overly objective with these trails, as I think it’s a shame to travel
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A small pack is all well and good for a day or two in the summer, but if you want to avoid the inevitable squeezing, pushing and forcing when trying to fit four or five days’ kit and supplies into a 35litre pack you’ll probably need to go larger. The Golite Pinnacle pack seeks to
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While Google has become synonymous with web search and Facebook with erosion of privacy, so have Platypus become a generic name it seems for all collapsible water bottles. I used platys for years and still have more than a few in regular use, but when my main 2l platy gave up the ghost after five
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