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I am sorry your wife had her bag taken. Saint Anthony please help
I am sorry your wife had her backpack taken. Saint Anthony please help Robin’s wife find her backpack and the belongs inside🙏🏻🙏🏻
Yes she is insured, but the injury she has (for which she visited a hospital) is too much to deal with right now. She's been searching for her bag and belongings today, going back and forth on bike. Asking locals and emailing other albergues. We...
Hello everyone,
This is a cry for help. I post this on behalf of my wife, who is walking the camino at the moment. Her backpack was taken away from the reception of the albergue Benedictina's Sisters in León this morning.
She left her backpack...
Hi @Carla M.!
Thanks for your message! I'm at work now and don't have a scale to weigh everything on its own, but I can tell you for sure I saved the most weight on my clothes, which I got from REI, an outdoor equipment co-op here in the States...
Hi Guys
This is just for info really; but if mods want to they can delete!
For this May's Camino i have gone back to my Talon 33 (so much less stuff this time; in fact everything is in the top brain apart from spare clothes and electronics)...
Hi,
Thank you for sharing, quite an impressive low weight
I am preparing for my second Camino, and I really struggled with the backpack weight in my first Camino (not help having two bad knees), so I intend to reduce it as much as possible...
Thanks again to all for offering opinions and ideas. I switched out the heavy power pack for a lighter one and added the few other things I needed to add (e.g. detergent sheets, safety pins, hat, nail clippers, comb) and the new weight is....the...
That is a very lean and disciplined packing list. Kudos to you. One item I don't see, and one that I always take, is a lightweight bandana, 25 grams. I like to douse mine in water and tie around my neck when it is super hot. It can also be...
Greetings Fellow Pilgrims!
I have more than a month to go until I leave on my first Camino, but couldn't resist getting my pack together already this weekend.
My full backpack (Deuter 30 L) is currently weighing in at 9.9 lbs/4.49 kgs. That...
What a wonderful day walking by the sea! My backpack felt good, my dry bag with poncho strategically clipped to the outside was handy! My first stop was in a bakery cafe near the mouth of the river. I watched the colourful poncho geared...
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