May 29, 2018
Eric Batty shares his camping experience on the show today. Eric has won the team 24 hours OCR Championships in Vegas, Set FKTs on many trails including the La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney, raced mountain bike at an elite/pro level for many years and now works as an Arborist (he climbs up trees all day!)
camping - basic skills,
tents = shelter systems - reliable (rain,
winds, thunderstorms)
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often too warm sleep for summer,
- sleep mat = close cell (Thermarest), reliable
- backpack - 90 and 100L perhaps too big for a few
days
water - filtration - aqua tabs
- UV - light stick
socks/ shoes?
= consider lighter trail runner for
short
= Peter and Eric have used Salomon Trail Runners
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Food - hang it in what?
= bear hanging options videos
food - best lightweight 'dinner' '
breakfast'?
= dinner in a bag
= JETBOIL - small, quick, canister, pot, built in
Flint
bugs =
= superlight bug hat/cover
= sun / wind effect
= off/Deet - hard to say still
bug you ... maybe not bite
= clean, gauze, bandaid, safety pin, tweezer, crazy glue for blisters, tape, pills (gravel, Imodium, NSAID)