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If I want to go camping for example, or simply do a "wilderness survival" thing for maybe a week. What should I bring in my backpack?
Answer
To go camping for a week and to do the "wilderness survival" thing for a week generally two very different things.
Going camping for a week means going and relaxing in comfort. You will have your tent, sleeping bag, full cook kit, enough food for the period of stay, fire making equipment, lantern, etc. It can weigh from 25 lbs to a hundred or more.
Doing the "wilderness survival" thing generally means some discomfort because of limited equipment. However, you utilize all of your survival gear to see if it really works and how proficient you are with it.
For a survival backpack/kit, you will want the following items:
Three types of fire starters
Something to use as shelter or fashion a shelter (i.e. a tube tent, etc.)
Something to sleep in (i.e. emergency bivy sack, etc.)
Some high energy food
Food producing equipment (i.e. fishing kit, snare material, etc.)
Light weight cook kit
Stove? It would have to be very light and use readily available fuel such as wood if carried at all
First Aid Kit
Knife
Axe or Saw
Minimal clothing
Sewing/repair kit
This list should get you started.
To go camping for a week and to do the "wilderness survival" thing for a week generally two very different things.
Going camping for a week means going and relaxing in comfort. You will have your tent, sleeping bag, full cook kit, enough food for the period of stay, fire making equipment, lantern, etc. It can weigh from 25 lbs to a hundred or more.
Doing the "wilderness survival" thing generally means some discomfort because of limited equipment. However, you utilize all of your survival gear to see if it really works and how proficient you are with it.
For a survival backpack/kit, you will want the following items:
Three types of fire starters
Something to use as shelter or fashion a shelter (i.e. a tube tent, etc.)
Something to sleep in (i.e. emergency bivy sack, etc.)
Some high energy food
Food producing equipment (i.e. fishing kit, snare material, etc.)
Light weight cook kit
Stove? It would have to be very light and use readily available fuel such as wood if carried at all
First Aid Kit
Knife
Axe or Saw
Minimal clothing
Sewing/repair kit
This list should get you started.
Biking/backpacking in Europe?
Q. This certainly isn't a question a lot of people would know the answer to, but is it a viable option to backpack through Europe on a bike? I've been to Germany once and saw loads of people riding on bikes. Also, I know trains are really popular there. If I wanted to take a train do they have like a cargo area where I could put my bike up for the ride?
Answer
No problem at all. Taking bikes full of camping kit on a train is a lot easier in France, Germany,Austria,Slovenia, etc than in UK. The railway staff are far more outdoor-conscious than British railway staff, although I have had some good journeys in Britain too. My first ever holiday alone, at 17, was a cycling trip round Scotland and the bike travelled well in the Guard's van from London to Glasgow.
I was posted to Germany for a few years and our family had cycling holidays twice a year around Europe with no problems. Just two more bikes with child seats to go with the dozen or so others in the van, and an admiring smile from the loader, especially when our 'Schone Dank's and 'Alles Gute's gave away our Englishness. Great! A 'proper' English family instead of football drunks. They love it.
Many towns have extensive systems of cycle lanes, there are long-distance cycle trails all over Europe, hundreds of brilliant camp-sites,and loads of bike shops for spares. Cycling camping is a joy in Europe.
A lot of the backpacker hostels hire bikes for a day or week and have good storage for them. Cycling is very popular activity and the towns are far more geared up for cyclists than most British ones are. I cycled eight miles to work every day from a village outside Osnabruch and nearly the same in Munster, and loved it every time. When I was posted from Hanover to Munster I cycled it overnight. Great trip. All my kit came in the house-moving truck.
The only speeding caution I ever had in my life was on a bike in Austria, clocked doing 82KPH in a 50KPH zone through a mountain village (all nine houses of it) on a twelve-kilometer downhill dream of a road in the Stubai Alps. I just let the bike run when I saw the brilliant vista ahead of me, no braking,no pedalling. Soon going too fast to pedal anyway. Let off, after a worried and disappointing stop - the copper was a keen cyclist and climber who admired that an Englishman could be in so remote a place on a bicycle and actually enjoy it. Showing him my life membership card for the Austrian Alpine Club may have helped, when he asked for ID. His face glowed. An Englishman who lives like us! We had a good chat about our favourite mountain huts and we parted good friends.
A 'Bergfreund' is in good company in the Alps.
Wild camping is not allowed in some areas, of Europe in the Black Forest for example and in all of Slovenia. Bears and wolves roam the forested hills of Slovenia. Rabies is always something to keep in mind. Be more careful in wild areas anywhere in Europe than in similar areas in UK.
The backpacker hostels are safe and very good.
If you get as far as Slovenia, you'll be in Paradise.
Have a great time.
No problem at all. Taking bikes full of camping kit on a train is a lot easier in France, Germany,Austria,Slovenia, etc than in UK. The railway staff are far more outdoor-conscious than British railway staff, although I have had some good journeys in Britain too. My first ever holiday alone, at 17, was a cycling trip round Scotland and the bike travelled well in the Guard's van from London to Glasgow.
I was posted to Germany for a few years and our family had cycling holidays twice a year around Europe with no problems. Just two more bikes with child seats to go with the dozen or so others in the van, and an admiring smile from the loader, especially when our 'Schone Dank's and 'Alles Gute's gave away our Englishness. Great! A 'proper' English family instead of football drunks. They love it.
Many towns have extensive systems of cycle lanes, there are long-distance cycle trails all over Europe, hundreds of brilliant camp-sites,and loads of bike shops for spares. Cycling camping is a joy in Europe.
A lot of the backpacker hostels hire bikes for a day or week and have good storage for them. Cycling is very popular activity and the towns are far more geared up for cyclists than most British ones are. I cycled eight miles to work every day from a village outside Osnabruch and nearly the same in Munster, and loved it every time. When I was posted from Hanover to Munster I cycled it overnight. Great trip. All my kit came in the house-moving truck.
The only speeding caution I ever had in my life was on a bike in Austria, clocked doing 82KPH in a 50KPH zone through a mountain village (all nine houses of it) on a twelve-kilometer downhill dream of a road in the Stubai Alps. I just let the bike run when I saw the brilliant vista ahead of me, no braking,no pedalling. Soon going too fast to pedal anyway. Let off, after a worried and disappointing stop - the copper was a keen cyclist and climber who admired that an Englishman could be in so remote a place on a bicycle and actually enjoy it. Showing him my life membership card for the Austrian Alpine Club may have helped, when he asked for ID. His face glowed. An Englishman who lives like us! We had a good chat about our favourite mountain huts and we parted good friends.
A 'Bergfreund' is in good company in the Alps.
Wild camping is not allowed in some areas, of Europe in the Black Forest for example and in all of Slovenia. Bears and wolves roam the forested hills of Slovenia. Rabies is always something to keep in mind. Be more careful in wild areas anywhere in Europe than in similar areas in UK.
The backpacker hostels are safe and very good.
If you get as far as Slovenia, you'll be in Paradise.
Have a great time.
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