Edwin
25-11-2010, 10:17 AM
Has anyone come across Thomas Elpel?
http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm
Expeditioning with almost no kit has an appeal and some of his thoughts are well worth considering. Why lug a tent when you can find shelter? Why spend two hours building a shelter when you can find one in one hour of looking?
Showell Styles, a children's writer and mountaineer wrote years ago of an Australian friend of his who had a very simple idea of "backpacking". She would do things on day one like buying a newspaper, in the days of broadsheets like the old style Times, and a large tin of stew. That night she would camp under something like a railway arch or somewhere handy light a fire and heat up the stew. Eat the stew and presumably wash out the tin. Sleep wrapped in the newspaper. In the morning brew tea in the stew can and burn the damp newspaper.
http://www.hollowtop.com/pls.htm
Expeditioning with almost no kit has an appeal and some of his thoughts are well worth considering. Why lug a tent when you can find shelter? Why spend two hours building a shelter when you can find one in one hour of looking?
Showell Styles, a children's writer and mountaineer wrote years ago of an Australian friend of his who had a very simple idea of "backpacking". She would do things on day one like buying a newspaper, in the days of broadsheets like the old style Times, and a large tin of stew. That night she would camp under something like a railway arch or somewhere handy light a fire and heat up the stew. Eat the stew and presumably wash out the tin. Sleep wrapped in the newspaper. In the morning brew tea in the stew can and burn the damp newspaper.