Everyone, everywhere, needs an Eagle Creek Fast Inflate travel pillow. Totes awesumz ... despite the weight

Ive got a Lunar Duo and can recommend them. Pretty light, goes up very quickly and as long as you dont peg it too close to the ground its not too bad on condensation. Ive had it up in heavy rain and it managed fine but its not been up in a gale, not yet anyway. Its a big tent too - easily copes with...

8/8. As planned, I rode from home to Richmond Park. It was dark enough when I got there around 9pm to not need a torch to see what I was doing without being seen ... if that makes sense. I'd brought my Hunka but it was dry and more than warm enough just to sleep on top of it. Hate the bloody thing a...

I do reckon it's a great way to mix two brilliant activities. In CO earlier this month, we hiked about four hours along some vaguely exciting single-track around a lake, chucking lines in every now and then, till we found a beaver dam that was filled with brownies. If we'd bikepacked in the bits bet...

Anyone else carrying their fishing gear? I've pared down my fly kit and will strap the pole to the top tube of my OO Fatty and have bought a very nice tidy little fly box. It's just a little extra weight and the only thing I may miss is a landing net, but I'll manage. This is urban bikepacking at it...

Cheeky Monkey wrote:Any pics?

Sure

TheBrownDog which hammock are you using it with?

I've used a few and at the moment it's a large Sea to Summit Ultralight. Im 6'2" and the UQ is just long enough, and should fit your Warbonnet, but Cumulus will put some additional length onto a custom one if you think you need it.

I've got a large sized Cumulus Selva 300. It's a decent size, easy to fit and now Ive learned to cinch it up tighter than I had been to stop the wind getting under it and robbing all the warmth, it's pretty good - very light and packs down small. Its the usual Cumulus quality too. One feature of it ...

Yep we all had mats under us, though the kids kicked theirs off as they were warm enough in their bags. The company does some sort of under-blanket. to be honest, while it was a pretty good set up, especially with the other hammocks slung underneath it, we were really lucky to get a spot with three ...

There's a triangular hole in the centre with a webbing rope ladder. It's a great piece of kit, though I wouldnt want to have to carry it much more than a few hundred yards.

These are tarps. Just back from three nights in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, pitched up at the nicely named Cataract Creek Campsite with my mate Scott and our kids. Scott has tents but he's bought one of those Tentsile multi-person hammocks, and we slung three more underneath it, all underneath ...

Very happy Friday for me. Last day of work for two weeks during which Im off to Colorado with the kids for a holiday of outdoorsy stuff. My back is sorted (sorta) and the overnight white water rafting trip Ive booked, plus the fishing and hunting, rock climbing and hiking, camping and getting chased...

Sam of this parish puts his dog in the back of his cargo bike and gets more space, time and respect than he does when he carries his kids. Go figure.

It looks like they do a night in a bothy that isn't supported? Dunno, will watch again. Even I, with my penchant for TMS, am wondering what they have in all those bags and racks, apart from watermelons and pineapples, but I do get the allure of the supported tour and that trip looks brilliant. Back ...

Found it .. .but it's a big old 20l one. Yours for a £5'er into a Help for Heroes charity tin if you want it.

Cheers
Tim

Think I have. Will check the Big Box of Stuff tonight.

7/7 for 2018. I strained my back a couple of weeks ago so there was no chance of any sort of off roading and risk hurting it again, so I had dinner at home then gently rode about three miles along lanes to Hodgemoor Wood, got my hammock up around 10pm, slept like a dog, woke early and was home by 6....

Hey, nice to see more activity and interest in a Sussex bivi a month. My plans have been scuppered through injury. I had to take March and April off the bike. I still managed a few bivi's, but was just hiking. Now getting back on the bike slowly and looking to resurrect my BaM plans. Please shout i...

I like this pic of Sam and James on a very relaxed ride out last year. We stopped after 10 miles for a brew because there was a nice view to be had and were we in no hurry to be anywhere ... which is, to me, the quintessential bikepacking experience. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4173/34198835622_5...

Topeak Alien multitool
Gerber mini-tool for the pliers and the little knife
Topeak Mountain Morph pump
Tubeless repair kit
Spare tube and some stick on patches
Park tyre boot
Small bottle of chain lube
Spare quick link
A couple of zip ties

6/6. I took an early mark at work so thought I'd get a proper trail ride in and packed light (for me) I was eating at the pub and planning to get home for breakfast - so just a small frame bag with my tarp and hammock, and a jacket, quilt and UQ in my bar bag, water tools and pump on my back. I spen...

An original Topeak Alien multi-tool. Had it for years and yeas till it went missing last year. Kept up the search for 6 months till I was clearing out my daughters collection of plastic animals and there it was,in amongst the ponies, frogs and sheep. Annoyingly I had just two weeks prior, replaced i...

On here: http://www.bikepacking.com/plog/foodless-odyssey-video/ I quite like the concept of surviving off the land, and I don't mind eating wild things. I have eaten all sorts of things I've shot and fished and snared and netted. But I never did it for the sake of film, which seems to be the whole ...

Late in on this. £1000 for a wee tent. Nope. And I know the design has its fans but I sold my TN Laser on after a couple of murderous nights on Dartmoor. It wasn't just hard to pitch in the wind, it was the noise the bastard made once I got inside it. Two months later I was up in the Peaks with a ta...

Mate of mine in Colorado posted this on my FB page. We're heading over there for some hiking soon. Think he might be trying to tell me something. https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/34135422_808445456012901_5794840386241298432_n.png?_nc_cat=0&oh=5e6e95e131731a63247e58f02cead8ea&oe=...