Emergency (No-Cook) Hiking/Survival food, hopefully NOT such a by-product as in the film ‘Soylent Green’ (Book: “make Room! Make Room! Harry Harrison); 459 gram sachet = 2000 calories: ‘Soylent is a simple, efficient and affordable drink that possesses what a body needs to be healthy. Soylent is a new option for maintaining a balanced state […]
Potatoes, Jerusalem Artichokes, Yacon, Yams, Sweet Potatoes in limited space in plastic pots in potting mix with poly dripper/timer irrigation. Descending size Reko pots will stack as shown to create greater height (bottoms cut out). Bunnings also now have black poly garbage bins ($9) which would be most suitable (shown). I grew this many Jerusalem
PACKS: A comfy pack will certainly make the difference between a hiking experience being enjoyable and its being a nightmare you are not going to want to repeat. When I was a young teenager I started out with an old ex-army framed pack which was hideously uncomfortable as soon as you put any weight in
I have been on this track now EIGHT times, first in March 2000; the last time April 2014. I hope it is NOT the last! Other folk go different places, I know, yet I keep returning to this magical place. (I go SOME other places too!) One reason I guess is I really like the
Your choice with dry bags can save you quite a few grams. Without them, you could have some sadly wet gear and maybe a disastrous trip. You need to check the seam sealing on the inside of the bags before each trip to ensure they remain waterproof. If you have any doubt, pour a few
One of the things which most surprised us about this beautiful forest was how warm generally it is – around 3-4C WARMER than nearby Invercargill, so very similar to Southern Victoria. I saw little difference between food growing in our hosts vegie garden at the Waitutu Lodge http://www.waitutu.co.nz/ than you would find here. We lived
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Hi, my name is Steve Jones. I have been hiking, hunting, canoeing etc now for nearer seventy years, and am still doing so – though a little more slowly than I once did. Here I am in April 2017, age 68, moose ‘hunting’ (with a camera) in the Hauroko Burn, Fiordland NZ. My wife Della
Like Westies Hut, this one is on my ‘bucket list’. One of our two ‘rest’ days we enjoyed an hour jet boat ride down the Makarora and up the Wilkin as far as the Kerin Forks hut (NZ$119). The other day was spent doing the laundry and getting there! If we had been a little earlier
There was a huge dump of early snow the night before we arrived in Queenstown. Snow lay right down to the road along Lake Wakatipu and even across the road (having been cleared with snow ploughs making one metre high drifts on the side of the road in places eg on the road down from
River Crossings: This is one of the most fraught parts of hiking. I have seen so many people come to grief doing this (and have had to arrange emergency air rescue for a number who foolishly injured themselves). For example, many folks will spend lots of time trying to find a log to cross on.
