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Sunday 8 January 2017
A quick wobble
Off on me bicycle for a quick over night stay. I have found a place that is quiet and not so hard to reach , Arakawa river side about 70 km by bicycle from my house,
Old School Rules
Set up; Lavuu, Czech sleeping bag , oil lantern,and a wood gas stove you know "old school".
The lavuu was set up with a ridge-line , so that the centre pole was not needed and the wood gas stove set up inside with a vent through the arm hole of the lavuu.
It kinda worked but didnt!
set up was quick and easy, but there were some small problems:
First, the tent pegs were too small for the soft ground , and they pulled out during the night,
Secondly the wood gas stove worked well for a quick meal but filled up with ash and stopped working, making the tent cold.
and thirdly the sleeping mat was inside the sleeping bag, which itself was too bulky, my idea of two woolen blankets didnt work!,and I couldnt move freely inside the bag.
However, the main idea of the set up worked well. The lavuu is a great one person tent, so versatile! I slept until 11:00am! and the chimney system in the tent worked well !
So changes are afoot!:
I will modify the sleeping bag or sleep pad system and bring a larger collapsible "fire pit" and make pegs from the surrounding material,
I will also try another location. One where the terain is more difficult and difficult to pitch a tent. So that I will have to " craft a bush bed " and make it flat in order to sleep well !
we shall see
Off on me bicycle for a quick over night stay. I have found a place that is quiet and not so hard to reach , Arakawa river side about 70 km by bicycle from my house,
Old School Rules
Set up; Lavuu, Czech sleeping bag , oil lantern,and a wood gas stove you know "old school".
The lavuu was set up with a ridge-line , so that the centre pole was not needed and the wood gas stove set up inside with a vent through the arm hole of the lavuu.
It kinda worked but didnt!
set up was quick and easy, but there were some small problems:
First, the tent pegs were too small for the soft ground , and they pulled out during the night,
Secondly the wood gas stove worked well for a quick meal but filled up with ash and stopped working, making the tent cold.
and thirdly the sleeping mat was inside the sleeping bag, which itself was too bulky, my idea of two woolen blankets didnt work!,and I couldnt move freely inside the bag.
However, the main idea of the set up worked well. The lavuu is a great one person tent, so versatile! I slept until 11:00am! and the chimney system in the tent worked well !
So changes are afoot!:
I will modify the sleeping bag or sleep pad system and bring a larger collapsible "fire pit" and make pegs from the surrounding material,
I will also try another location. One where the terain is more difficult and difficult to pitch a tent. So that I will have to " craft a bush bed " and make it flat in order to sleep well !
we shall see
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