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All the stuff i am taking on a two month trip, including bags, the clothes i am wearing, excluding my phone and an actual book which i plan to send home though. Hope i didn't miss something, but i think i should be good. Leaving my chair at home this time.
Checked in my bubble wrapped my bike and waiting for my plane to southern spain.
Do you have any specific items in mind? I can only really think of the sleeping bag that is very small, i ordered that one directly from the manufacturer, cumulus. I have a lite line 200 (and a 400 at home). The other stuff mostly from the local outdoor shop, some was ordered.
Thanks :) What tent is that? And is that a cookset on the plate?
The tent is a big agnes copper spur 1p. I bought it on sale but it was still quite expensive, i don't think these naturehike tents from amazon are much worse but cost like a third. They may be a tad bit heavier (possibly sturdier, the BA is quite flimsy but it held up fine up til now). I think my next tent will be a naturehike or something from decathlon again but i'll try to add some of the neat features this BA one has, mostly some clever pockets and loops on the inner tent. My old naturehike tent packed smaller i believe.
The cookset is on the plate, yes, i had no gas yet so now i have my stove on top of the pots, but in the mesh bag. It consists of a titanium pot and 'pan', my rag, gas canister (230g), an optimus crux windshield and a soto amicus stove. I had an optimus crux stove but ditched it on my last tour because i could just not get it to regulate the flame consistently which was very annoying. The soto stove works much better, but it doesn't fold like the crux.
I like the titanium pots, it may be tricky cooking dry-ish stuff but it's perfect to drink tea out of the pot. With aluminum you basically can only put it to your lips comfortably when the tea is almost already too cold.
These are my pots. I really like that the bottom of the pan fits snug into the pot when cooking, i always imagine it works like a pressure cooker and also used it to keep a sauce hot. Not a setup for people who go all out cooking i guess, but i found i am not the person to do that and i'm happy with just some pasta etc. I turned to cooking one pot pasta (2x weight in water to 1x weight in pasta plus whatever the sauce is). Saves water and salt too. I then also can get by with just some paper satchels of salt, but i wasn't able to find some here in the restaurants, might have to buy salt now.
*my decathlon folding steel fork and knife would also fit into the pots, but it's too much hassle if i eat a yoghurt or something so they are always ready. I don't like sporks, i used to carry my regular spoon and fork but got annoyed with the fork spinking through things.