OM blogrespondent Weird Darren returns with the latest outdoors blogging highlights.
Weird Darren returns to the outdoor blogging fast lane
after a relaxing holiday trip to Scotland...
BLOG OF THE WEEK
For the lightweight gear freaks out there this weeks blog of the
week - the first ever - is LightHiker who does a comparision
of twolightweight gas stoves in Two
Roaring Little Beauties. Roman wins, erm, nothing, but
ultra-lightweight kudos...
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'In order to test their performance in still conditions I
used the same test setup than the one for the alcohol stoves
with no windshield and both are coming in closely which you
probably wouldnít think given their big claimed
difference in heat output..'
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Chris at
Hike Wales had his first wild camp as part of
his Coast to Coast crossing of Wales in
C2C
Days 4 & 5 - the first wild camp
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'It was the first time we had used all of the new kit in
anger. Alan cheated and didn't bring everything he is going
to take on the main trip and then boasted about how light
his pack was. Bad man.'
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Alan Sloman's LEJOG
pub crawl staggers across Scotland as he completes his TGO
Challenge Crossing, and is getting to ready to , and is starting to
sound more like a David Lynch movie, or has he found the perfect
woman? (What, again?)
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'I made Tarfside for a late breakfast, then relaxed into
the rest of the day off. Before too long Challengers were
pouring in from the Shielin, Clova, Dinnet, Ballater and
Clova; all enjoying the cameraderie of the event. Some had
not seen each other for years, but their conversations
picked up from where they left off last time.'
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Judy Armstrong - Alpine
Challenge - is well into her epic walk across the Alps.
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'I strolled through the village of Les Orres and found
myself caught up in a reunion, involving a barbeque and an
impressive number of empty bottles, followed by an abortive
mushroom hunt (if ever you encounter an awkward looking
Frenchman in a forest, you have probably not interrupted a
call of nature, rather he is pretending to not be looking
for mushrooms, lest you should return and plunder his patch
later).'
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Meanwhile, over at London
Backpacker's Walking Pages ,
George has some videos up of his recent trip on the Dales Way.
They're on You Tube too, so here an example, clever
stuff...
While Aktoman
has been blogging about his kit failure during his recent trip to the
Cairngorm National Park
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'I'm off for a 2hr drive, calling myself an idiot in as
many languages as i can manage. Why didn't i take the old
Akto pole in the rucksack?'
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The impact of walking on mental health is discussed by
John
Hee in
Mental
Health and Walking is discussed by John Hee on his Walk About
blog.
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'During periods of high pressure/stress or just downright
disgust at some aspects of modern life I especially take
myself outdoors and walk it off. To get back to the real
things in life..'
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And that's all for this week folks, Weird Darren will be back with
another blog summary next week.
