Tag: Patagonia
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Primus OmniLite Ti – Titanium Multi Fuel Stove Review
Swedish company Primus recently launched a new lightweight titanium multi-fuel stove called the OmniLite Ti. I’ve been using the OmniLite for over two years now, first in Patagonia then whilst cycling around the world. In my view, it is the best multi-fuel stove on the market. It is smaller and lighter than the competition and…
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Two Days in Patagonia
I recently wrote a piece for the beautiful Sidetracked magazine. It was about the first two days of my wife and I’s walk across South America, and is reproduced below. [divide] The ferry departed leaving us alone at the roadside. Puffed up clouds filled the sky and a cold breeze set an ominous tone for…
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Photos from Patagonia
Here are some of my favourite photos from our trip to Patagonia earlier in the year. If the slideshow above isn’t working then click here to view full-screen.
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Happy New Year (2012 Review)
I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank you to everyone who voted for mine and Laura’s video in the Kukri Adventure Scholarship competition. At last check, we had just over 200 votes which probably put is in about 9th out of around 30 videos. The competition isn’t judged on votes alone…
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Subtle Contradictions of Expedition Life
Below are Laura’s and my own diary entries, respectively, after our first day of walking in Patagonia: We wake around 7am and pack up the tent with few words. We walk, enjoying the morning peace and our rested legs. Before an hour is up, I feel a flash of irritation – at the incessant flies,…
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Patagonia Kit List
Below is a list of the equipment I took to Patagonia. We bought quite a lot of new kit so I’ve mentioned any particular bargains and expensive items. I think we took too much stuff though so I’ve also included what we could have done without. Notes from Laura are in italics. Clothes 1 pair…
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Where Are We?
Three days stuck in the same Argentinian town. But which town? See if Laura’s diary entry will help you work it out: In the style of those ‘Guess the location’ features that appear in several papers, see if you can guess our location from the clues: Only a couple of places have landlines (and mobile reception…
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Walking Across Patagonia Video
Laura and I were given a GoPro Hero video camera for Christmas (thanks Rob!) and, after a few test runs, we took it to Patagonia to film. For those not familiar, it is a tiny box of a camera about the size of a large stack of credit cards. It comes in a waterproof and…
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The Contents of My Lid Pocket
Some reflections about the trusty rucksack I lugged half away across South America: My rucksack has a particularly large pocket in its lid. Big enough for an A4 folder or a pair of shoes. It always contains those items which I will need most often. For the first week this was money for buying food…
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What Would You Take?
Here’s a not-too-philosophical piece that Laura wrote and which entertained us both no end in Patagonia: One December, I was leaving Coire Cas car park ready to climb Ben Macdui when I saw a group of Japanese tourists wearing city clothes and carrying Sainsburys’ bags setting off up Cairngorm. They made a sharp contrast to…
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Zombie State
Laura writes about our first few, hard days’ walking along the Carretera Austral: The last two days were tough. While they were happening, we were in a zone, a single-minded, zombie state focused only on walking nearly 100km in two days to make our ferry. Now finished, the lowest points stand out in stark relief.…
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Top 10 Things to do in Patagonia
Shortly before heading out to South America at the end of last year, Laura made contact with Swoop Patagonia, a travel company based in Bristol. We met with Luke Errington, who runs Swoop with Charlotte Brown, and they were incredibly helpful in hooking us up with some contacts down south. And now they’ve kindly written…