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Snap @stgcph! Buen Camino whichever way you have chosen to walk. My backpack is coming out of storage ready to meet up with a peregrina I first met on the CF in 2015. We have remained dear friends & as she is celebrating milestone birthday I am off to join her & family walking in the Welsh hills - the temperature forecast to be in the high twenties so we can easily fake being on a CaminoOn my regular walks, I use a small daypack to hold my rain jacket and some food and water. Now, with 8 weeks to go before next Camino, it is time to start training with the “real” backpack. It has resided in the back of a cupboard for a long time and I got quite excited digging it out into the daylight again. It has a certain feel and smell (not bad!) to it that brings memories up from the deep of the brain. I couldn’t resist immediately starting to fiddle with the straps and buckles, filling it up with sheets and sweaters and trying it on for a walk around the living room. Good feeling!
Last year before my first Camino, I spend hours (days?) packing and repacking it, organizing all the things into different colored nylon bags worrying if I would have easy access to all I needed both during the walk and in the evenings. Now I have a mental map of the right place for everything, and I tell myself that I will be able to pack it in 10 minutes – but we’ll see about that.
Anyway, now it’s out and tomorrow it will be out on the road again. I guess some air and sunshine will do it good after months in the darkness
Snap @stgcph! Buen Camino whichever way you have chosen to walk. My backpack is coming out of storage ready to meet up with a peregrina I first met on the CF in 2015. We have remained dear friends & as she is celebrating milestone birthday I am off to join her & family walking in the Welsh hills - the temperature forecast to be in the high twenties so we can easily fake being on a Camino
I’m nine months out from my Camino and am resisting the temptation to get my pack out and practice packing it.
tomnorth,
If it makes you happy... why not?
I am leaving in a week for a six day walk in Banff Park and am trying to fit into my 40 litre camino backpack all the gear and clothing and food that I shall need. It is still early season here and promises to be wet. I am using my usual packing method: Sort, measure, bag and try to stuff in everything I expect to need, then leave out extraneous clothing and excess food and hope that I shall be warm enough and have enough to eat. This keeps down the packed weight but is always a challenge. Last summer, I woke up cold most nights, not having a warm enough sleeping bag, so I must take a warmer one this time. This sure makes camino packing look easy.
I don't know if this may help or not... heck, you might already employ this with your inventory in mind. I look at my sleeping quilt as another layer of clothing. This helps with decisions about insulative layers like jackets.
I found a long time ago that the only time I really needed a much warmer jacket on the trail was after arriving at my campsite for the evening. During the daytime, it was usually warm enough for lighter weight insulated garments to keep me warm without the need for a full-on big puffy jacket, plus while hiking I was needing less layers and peeled some off.
But at camp, when the sun started going down and I was not longer highly active, the drop in temperature would have me welcome the extra warmth of the heavier jacket. On one week-long trip, I had rushed through my packing list, and forgot my heavier puffy jacket. I wasn't in any danger of hypothermia, but sitting around and enjoying the stars would have been more comfortable with it on. I was looking over at my tent when an epiphany struck, as it has lots of others.
I have a sleeping quilt. Sleeping bag would work, too.
I could just use it as a shawl-wrap. And the velcro straps that can be used to hold the quilt to the air mattress actually acted like buttons to keep it a bit secure while wearing it.
Two birds...one stone. That saves about 14 extra ounces of weight I have to carry
@chinacat@Albertagirl
How about a lightweight down jacket to wear inside your sleeping bag?
Just a thought ...
@chinacat@Albertagirl
Thank you for replying.
The mountains never, ever let you go, do they?
Being quite allergic to down must make your adventures a bit difficult, though the merino will be cosy ... I won’t go anywhere without my Icebreaker layers!
You couldn’t carry your jacket around your waist?
As I’m sure you know, going hungry will mean not enough internal fuel to keep you warm, no matter how good the insulation.
Living where you do ... and no, I’m not at all envious (crosses fingers behind back) ... you will have far more experience than I do, of coping with your environment. I just didn’t want to think of you waking with the cold, especially when it might well rain, too.
I wish you happy trails and warm and starry nights (both?) in the magnificent mountains! Enjoy
Anyway, now it’s out and tomorrow it will be out on the road again. I guess some air and sunshine will do it good after months in the darkness
Lol!! I can imagine someone coming up and saying ‘Camino?’ With a bit of tear in their eyes.Ah, deep backpack relations! I found myself one day when in the states going into an REI store and wondering around until I arrived at the area in which backpacks were displayed. I spotted my exact pack from a distance. A rust orange 48 liter Osprey. I went over to the rack and stood there stroking it. That is until I realized I was having a nostalgic worship my backpack memory session! It becomes so much a part of one’s life on the Camino!
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