All aspects of trip preparation and planning. Wondering thorough Europe. Biking and Hiking.Sights and sounds. Travel journal.
Slow start. Finally decided to break open my magnesium fire starter kit. It was $12 at EMS, but it did not include the knife of metal strip to do the magnesium shavings. I had to use my own knife. I was struggling for about 40 minutes with the […]
Last event yesterday links with the first event today. Late last night I discovered that cheap charge wire for iPhone that I buy from China for $1 stopped working, and my phone have only 5% charge left. Today, I found a twist of the wire and I was able to […]
Always in progress . . . Next morning started around 7 (I opened my eyes at 07:22). Around 8:40 AM, I started my hike. For that day, I planned to complete a circle – climb 4,832 Carter Dome mountain, descend on a Black Angel trail, and complete the […]
Life is always in progress until it is not This time it was a special trip. I used all the accumulated information and wisdoms of previous trips on this trip. I woke up really early on Friday morning August 29 2014 (04:39 AM), checked the weather one last time […]
A new mode of camping was adopted for this trip. My camp was off a very remote section of the White Mountain Forest. Plus, road was blocked by construction. My base camp was 0.6 miles on bike from the car, and then another 0.4 miles on foot. That was far […]
07:00 – I remember waking up very early and planning in my head how to break the camp most efficiently. There was no rain, but everything outside was dripping wet. First to be folded and packed were sleeping bag and pads, food and clothes, kitchen and bath bags. Among first […]
Woke up at 05:51 – the record and without any hesitation I was ready to leave the camp in just half an hour. 06:31 start excursion number 4 – “Pond of Safety” Road is a mess. All 5 yards of it. Road is very wide here, but it has no […]
This was the only sunny and even hot day of this trip. Wake up at 7AM. As today will be rain-free, I will put on old boots and leave new boots to dry out on sticks all day in the camp. Large new back pack all this time just having […]
07:20 wake up and put on dry socks and dry boots. Second breakfast of fallen birches – cantaloupe from Walmart cut by machete. 08:55 depart of an “excursion” number 2. I did not even take paper map with me – there is everything on iPhone GPS topo maps. Today’s trip […]
Rain all night, but I am dry in the tent. Raindrops from the trees still pounding on the tarp, but earplugs softening the noise. 05:55 Awake, but it is raining. Decided to continue to sleep Very slow morning – no reason to venture out while it is raining. 07:55 Wake […]
04:06 Wake up without an alarm – new record. Last record was 04:39 AM several years ago. 04:46 Depart from home. No breakfast, no bath. Just 4 operations: print latest weather forecast, attach bike to car, pickup plastic connectors and tubes for water filter, load tarps, extra blanket, hot […]
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