If you have been following this blog and particularly my DIY tent/shelters etc you will realise I don’t think you do. I have slept under the stars collectively for several years of my life – more than enough for a dozens of ‘through-hikes’ which are things I would probably never do, as I dislike tracks …
Can’t make your own? How about this one? 310 grams US$28.43 (April 2020). 3000 mm waterproof. You couldn’t make it for this. Of course you can’t use it as a hammock tarp as well like mine but it is the beginning of a good cheap hiking kit. You can pair it with a bathtub floor …
I was thinking of making one of these for my new Deer Hunter’s Tent but at US$27 (April 2020) and a quite reasonable weight of 180 grams single ( 31 1/2″ x 7′ ie 80 x 210 cm) or 227 grams double (7′ x 4′ ie 210 x 120 cm) I might not bother. Comes …
A tent that is also a tarp and a hammock shelter. This tent has been evolving in my head for a number of years and I realise that some of you are impatient that you have not been able to buy one or other of its iterations. However your wait might soon be over. Be …
A friend swore that Lewis and Clark had a high powered repeating air rifle that fired a large rifle-sized bullet that would punch a hole through a wolf or a 2″ plank of wood 100 yards away. He claimed that it so impressed the Indians they encountered that they went unmolested in truly savage country. …
(Della): “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.. Plenty still on the tree, but if I get this lot preserved in jars and the drier over the next few days, we will be very well set-up for apple this year, as these will be in addition to some bottled Gravensteins from early in the season. That …
You have probably seen my posts about Westies Hut and about that section of the South Coast Track. We have stayed in the remarkable hut in a sea cave at Price’s harbour – and hope to do so again, next time for a slightly longer period, despite the sandflies. I doubt we will be staying …
(Della): First task for today: Cooking up the green tomato pickle. Miserable weather outside keeping me out of the garden is the perfect backdrop! The finished product. Yum. Hits: 11
Lots of people live in flats and don’t have anywhere to store a normal kayak. It may be they don’t have a car with roof racks either but they still want to go canoeing on a beautiful silvery river on a hot summer’s day – as who does not? The folk at Tucktek have come …
A tent for two that is also a (two-person) hammock tarp which weighs 150 grams in cuben. How good is that? During this coronavirus lock down we are very busy here on the farm building several kilometres of new vermin-proof fences just for example. I also need to spend hours each day on share market …
