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Knowing When To Stop

26th March 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Knowing when to stop sometimes depends on the potential camp

I can’t even count the number of times I have heard the saying: I’m not hiking/walking to get anywhere; I’m out for the walk itself I’m pretty sure I’ve said this myself many times, but I can easily recognise, now, that many times it is an attempt to just convince myself, and is not the […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Camping, danger, gear, resposibility, risk, ultrapacking

Leave No Trace – UK adjustment

7th November 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Leave no trace in the backcountry, on or off the trail

If you go outdoors in the USA you seem to be truly alone as there are no signs that other people have ever been there; not always, but in most places that has been my experience. If you go hiking in the UK, on the other hand, it feels like all the people you have […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Backpacking, Camping, Hiking, LNT

The me effect – all about solo backpacking

24th October 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Solo backpacking at its best - in the backcountry

Everyone who is into backpacking (or hiking, hill walking, trekking, thru-hiking or what ever you want to call it) has been asked about going solo, and if you know of people who do solo backpacking, you must have wondered how they do it. Let me start by saying that I spend most of my time […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Camping, Hiking, Long Distance walking, PLB, thru hiking

Trail vs Route – which one is for you?

10th October 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Take the trail?

Listening back to one of the earlier shows of the Trail Show – I think it was number 16 – there is an interesting conversation about trail vs route, what each is and the differences between them. I loved that conversation and it got me interested in the idea of actually having two different definitions […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Camping, fast hiking, Navigation, the trail show, ultralight backpacking

Dealing with solo weekend guilt

21st February 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

A solo guilt free climb up a ridge in New Zealand

There is a real problem in being torn between two worlds, between the family/home world and the outdoors. It is almost like having a demanding mistress but knowing the demand exists only in your head. I guess this guilt exists with any hobby or personal activity that takes us away from home; but there is […]

Filed Under: Ideas Tagged With: Backpacking, Camping, Family, Guilt, Hiking

What acivities can you do outdoors?

29th November 2014 by Gilad Nachmani

Scrambling at the Cairngorms, Scotland

We have already discussed the fact that we go outdoors to have fun, and as much as just being helicoptered to the middle of nowhere for a few hours with an icebox full of beers and snacks sounds great, most people want to actually do something when they are out – but what? The outdoors […]

Filed Under: Gear, Ideas Tagged With: Backpacking, Camping, Climbing, Cycling, Fell Running, Hiking, Mountain Running, Mountaineering, Outdoors activity, Skiing, Snowboarding, Trail Running, Tramping, Trekking, Walking

First camping trip with a baby

15th November 2014 by Mika Nachmani

How a first campring trip with a baby should look like

Gilad wanted to go out camping with the baby almost from the moment she was born. He had spent my pregnancy researching trekking experiences with babies, from ultralight minimalist die-hards to car-camping families doing day hikes. He knew it could work. He just had to get the gear and convince a first time mother that […]

Filed Under: Adventures Tagged With: Camping, camping with a baby, ergobaby performance, South Downs Way

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