Re: Hiking the Pennine Way.
I plan to arrive at Edale late afternoon of 27th May, camp overnight, and start to hike early the next morning. After well over a full year off and being one year older I am not entirely sure now about my capabilities, which is why I'm explaining this, knowing that you all know about my hike will be an incentive for me to keep going.
I've unthreaded the skirt around my quilt because I thought of a better way of adding warmth to it. I now have a 90 x 126cm thermal blanket (weighs very little) which will be across my torso and under the top of my quilt, a mid-layer in fact. I'll see how that works, it worked well last night when I tried it out in my garden.
I've used my quilt for a number of years and when I now hold it up to a light, I can plainly see that a lot of down has moved from one baffle 'tube' and I don't have the knowledge in how to move it back. There are 5 baffles 'tubes' that cover my torso, three are fine, fully filled with down, one is a bit less filled and one 'tube' is almost empty.
Apart from my quilt everything else is fine. I'll be taking my tent, I'm not sure I could cope with a bivvy and tarp for over three weeks and I plan to wild camp for much of the route but I'll go on a site if the price is right, £10 a night or less!
Crossing my fingers that all of the pubs and restaurants are open and stay open, I don't plan to be 'tight-fisted' on my trip!