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Finnmarksvidda - big country
now the planning of mine and Joe Newton's trip across Finnmarksvidda is looming big. Only eight days before we leave for this giant, wide-open ...
Some readers will remember that I offered a course on using lightweight and ultra light gear in above timberline conditions last summer. ...
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Brian Doble, Triple Crowner
many people have hiked the three great American trails that make up the Triple Crown. Probably because it entails walking 3 500 kilometers along the ...
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At last, time for Smarter Backpacking
many readers already know, I have been quite busy this fall with my first book in English. I am happy to say that it is now available at Amazon. But ...
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Breathability of fabrics
is of course the king, but there are many pretenders. And quite a few of them have adopted the suffix -tex. In a feeble attempt at humour I call all ...
writer and long distance hiker Chris Townsend has been out for a walk again. It took him a couple of months. Like he has written in his book Crossing ...
week Gore unveiled a new lightweight fabric that they say is "the most breathable Gore-Tex ever'. It's called Active Shell and it seems breathability ...
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Weight on your feet
several books, including the soon to be published Smarter Backpacking, I have written that it is five times as energy consuming to carry something on ...
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West of Virihaure - the gear
is a list of the gear I brought with me to Virihaure and some comments. It was basically the same gear that I have been using for the last year or ...
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West of Virihaure - the shelter
my hike north and west of the Virihaure I used a brand new shelter. A homemade combination of innertent/bugtent and rain fly. Cuben fiber was the ...
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West of Virihaure - the walk
area in Padjelanta NP squeezed between the big lakes of Virihaure, Vastenjaure and Sallohaure and the Norwegian border is largely untraveled. There ...
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One step closer to barefoot
few years ago I made a not very funny April's fool joke about trekking barefoot to save weight. Now the joke is on me since barefoot running shoes ...
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Light pants
got back from Virihaure and will be collecting my impressions and photos in the next couple of days. The Cuben fiber shelter kept me warm and dry. ...
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On your feet
a forum I ran across an interesting article on walking, feet and shoes. I felt that it confirmed my own experience of light footwear being better for ...
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Light with kids I
Outside Magazine Sweden July 2010 page 56 there was an article written by me about lightpacking with kids. Unfortunately, at least for my ego, my ...
