Australian Hiker

The final week leading into a big hike can be a bit frantic. In addition to getting everything sorted  around the house, as a full-time blogger there’s the social media and blog related preparations to put in place, including preparing for podcasting and posting along the trail to help minimise the work I need to do to edit for releasing the podcast.

Then there’s the gear. Last night I collected all my gear into one place and while the majority is very easy to locate, a few things need to be collected from the various hiding holes around the house. All my gear does have a specific home but the location is all sitting in my head which doesn’t help Gill when she needs to find things.

One of the jobs that I have to do in month is to itemise everything and set it up in specific bins so that I/Gill know exactly where everything is located. without having to ask each other. This has been one of those tasks that I keep putting on hold but given the planned walks over the coming year it’s now become a priority.

The image in this post is my gear all laid out across the couch, inlacing what I’ll be wearing but doesn’t include food which is the next task.

I know from experience that while this might look like a lot of gear, it will however comfortably fit into my pack and then into my wheelie bag which is for packing everything safely to go on the bus/train. The wheelie bag will stay behind at my hotel ready for my return trip.

Pulling all our gear together a few days before allows me to identify any shortfalls and means we have time to visit a local store if needed. In this case I have everything we need so will do one final run over to see if I need to add/delete anything from this trip and then do a test pack in a couple of day including all food before packing everything into a wheelie bag ready for my bus trip to Melbourne.

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