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    Hiking Sandals only?

    Yay, ECCO fan! I live in Coimbra, Portugal and this, my first winter, I stepped outside apartment, looked at the glistening wet pavement, looked down at my ECCOs and thought, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained!" Actually, I think I was paralyzed with fear, as I had just had a right hip...
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    Merino wool shirt

    Icebreak should be stronger and t'istn't. My 200 has a snarky hole and just lamentable even after a cold wash. The rip at cinch of (previous) Osprey 36 and somehow missed in clothing review in January. What I miss (almost) more than un cafe solo-- which is saying a lot -- is the Icebreaker...
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    The Perfect (almost) Backpack?

    I would greatly appreciate a packing list from your good lady wife as I plan my fourth Camino. I started with 17 lbs in 2002 (no "Gossamer Gear" options then: it was a Kelty something or other) and in 2012 and 2018, I had still not learned my "less weight in the pack"lesson. I moved from...
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    Perfect solution (I hope..) sleeping system

    Recommendations sought for a sleeping bag for early April start from Roncesvalles - CF. A bit of a thrasher myself. Third Camino and resolute to refugio rather than private accommodation and want to be prepared.
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    Checking your backpack on flights

    From St Louis Airport several Madrid bound checked backpack as luggage: ditto safe arrivals. However, I was flying American direct to Madrid, therefore (what am I saying!), surrely luggage could not get lost on a direct flight? See, that comment got everyone to roll their eyes...
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    arcteryx aerios 30 pack.. anyone try?

    Camino dreaming Porto-Santiago 2022, the Gossamer Gear website and their well thought offerings keeps me coming back time and again, to mull over and consider. I do know this (holding aloft in one hand a virtual slice of tortilla espanola and in other hand a virtual cup of cafe solo, por...
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    Getting Small

    A YouTube ad came on this evening from a company out of Barcelona. Has anyone else viewed this ad from their Kickstarter campaign? https://www.tropicfeel.com
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    Trekking Poles Turned Me into the Flash

    Here's the part your neighbors are missing -- after you have put your right and left feet in and and have shaken them all about, you do what? Why, "you put your whole self in, you put your whole self out, you put your whole self in and you shake it all about, you do the hokey-pokey (arms over...
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    Trekking Poles Turned Me into the Flash

    Bob, I am in mid-Missouri and "stuck" with the closest waling option 5 minutes drive away, the Katy Trail, a reconverted railroad line which snakes 240 miles through the Show Me State. And is it flat! Flat, flat, flat! On a bike, for instance, one is contantly peddling; grdients vary...
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    Is this a new type of shoe? “Hybrid hiker”

    My Hoka One One Challenger 6 ATR are not gulp-inducing for $127.00 from Zappos, and that really is my ticket limit for fabrication designed to protect my feet (although barefoot walkers do have my respect!). However, everything designed to get me on my next Camino has fought gravity and...
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    So here I go - compiling that lightweight kit - I started with the Rucksack

    When David writes "...many a happy hour weighing the typical contents of my pack...", we many, we gallant, we airline-prohibited-from-Spain many, murmur to ourselves, "Doesn't everyone?"
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    Fun With a Poncho. . . multitasking

    Snorer proder! Love it! Of course, I never snore -- it's unladlylike and always someone else! :-)
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    3rd - 9th September: boots or trail runners?

    I have to acknowledge that I have likely had "more boots than hot dinners", to quote my ex-Scot husband, a "big leather boot" hillwalking kind of chap. As I look forward with hopeful, post-coronavirus eyes to a fourth Camino this Autumn, and having worn last Spring's Ponferrada-purchased...
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    3rd - 9th September: boots or trail runners?

    Any particular brand of sandal? When one of my Chacos was lost off my backpack, I stopped at a nifty outfitter in Ponferrada who suggested Tevas. Okay, yes, they are good, but ... is there better out there? So, Camino-dreaming (Sept 2020) in North Carolina, I am on the hunt!

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