What is the best travel pack?
What features are important when deciding on which one to spend your hard earned dollars on?
Is there a good compromise between a suitcase and a backpack?
Why the need for a travel pack?
We plan to travel a bit in the next few years – e.g. Cambodia in late August for three weeks
The way we plan to travel i.e. backpacking, lends itself to a rucksack rather than a suitcase
Suitcases are not easy to drag around and having your hands free is a bonus.
We might want to do some short (2-3 day walks) and are willing to compromise on pack weight and harness quality.
There is a lot of doom and gloom in the world at the moment. We reckon we’ll be 90 yo before we can retire unless the share market, and our superannuation funds, recover significantly.
But, who cares when we have the opportunity to find useless bits of gear that make us smile and think, why haven’t we got one of these?
We introduce the GSI Outdoor Vortex Blender! In all seriousness why would you want one of these?
We go camping and take a huge trailer full of stuff but we have never thought of a blender. (Maybe next time….)
We got some great feedback from Ian on a recent article – Gear ideas for a wilderness hiking trip where Larry Hamilton shared some of his observations on the type of gear he used on a trip to the South Coast Track last year.
Ian raised an interesting point about the need / usefulness of modern gear compared with how he used to walk with mates in the 1980′s and 90s. In those days they made a lot of their own gear or improvised using what ever was at hand.
If you have been bushwalking for a while, do you think that gear has improved much since the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s?
Do you make your own gear or perform modifications to improve performance?
What is your favourite “old” piece of gear you still drag out and use on every trip?
In this post we share a video from Peak Survival about Life Gear Glow Sticks. We have never thought of taking glow sticks into the bush as lighting. This short video is a great review demonstrating the product that contains a torch, emergency flasher, whistle and up to 200 hrs of “glow” capability. Interesting idea that looks the goods (and filmed in a snow cave so doubly cool!)
Win a Sea to Summit Ultra-Sil Daypack by entering this challenge! Can you spend a night out camping with only the amount of gear that can be stored in one of these tiny packs? Darren, over at his site, Whitespider1066 lists his proposed gear and sets up the rules of the challenge. Looks like a fun way to win a pack.
