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It’s amazing how quickly a long distance hike creeps up on you. Most of the key organisation activity has already been done but I realised over the past few days that time was running short and hadn’t started to arrange food and given I’m starting my journey in 2 weeks yesterday was a flurry of activity to purchase my food needs. Arranging freeze dried food deliveries, purchasing breakfasts and commercial snacks, and when my local markets open tomorrow picking up the bulk of my fruit and nut snacks. I wont get around to bundling up my food until early next week but I just needed to make sure it was sitting there ready to go.

I also spent part of yesterday ordering ‘odds and sods’ including small zip lock bags for my my end of day protein hit, as well as making sure that I had a back water purification method which caught me out on my recent Great South West Walk. Today I need to go to Australia Post to buy my resupply boxes with my first box due to be posted next Monday to make sure it gets to me on time for my first pick up.

Later on today I will assemble all my gear into one place, ready for packing in 6 days time and go through my gear list, again, to make sure that everything is there and doesn’t need replacing or mending.

My wife Gill always loves the lead in process for my big walks as I take over the lounge room with gear and food for 52 days on trail (Not).

All of the above is very much ‘business as usual’ for a long distance hike but to make things more complex I’ve just changed over my iPhone and iPad mini and still need to set up background systems to help reduce my on trail workload. I’m in for a very busy two weeks!