Comments on The Armchair Adventurer: Huldreheimen: Day 2

Hendrik, Perhaps indirectly. I've never read C...

2011-04-22T23:30:04.759+02:00

Hendrik, Perhaps indirectly. I've never read Clellands winter book but I'm sure many who I've followed on the net have.

Alan, Glad you're enjoying the report. My experience of the UK is that rock often comes with mud. Mud and rock can also be hard work :-)

Jorgen, never having built a snow shelter in earnest there was always going to be a backup in the bag. This was a first outing for the shleter in question though so I had some concerns about it but it turned out to be one of the successes of the trip.

I'm also looking forward to hearing more about...

2011-04-19T20:29:46.458+02:00

I'm also looking forward to hearing more about your trip. Smart move to have a backup tent, snow camping can take an awful lot of time, dependent on snow conditions that are not really possible to foresee.

A jolly good start to the tour. Looking forward to...

2011-04-12T23:52:06.696+02:00

A jolly good start to the tour. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the trip. You can keep all that tramping in snow though - looks like loads of hard work! Warm sunshine and nice firm rock, that's the way!
;-)

I like the look of that snow kitchen, Dave. Inspir...

2011-04-12T10:48:10.330+02:00

I like the look of that snow kitchen, Dave. Inspired by a certain Mike Clelland, maybe?!

Your snow sounds good to me - better than wet snow which doesn't carry and sticks to your skis, boots and drags you down which we have here in spring.

Joe, Yes. The white stuff. Nice to look at. Shitty...

2011-04-11T22:13:16.703+02:00

Joe, Yes. The white stuff. Nice to look at. Shitty to plant your face in.

The Odysee, Glad you enjoyed it. Thee's more to come. The tent was one of the more successful bits of kit. If only all my gear choices had worked out so well.

Great post Dave. Loved every minute as though i wa...

2011-04-11T18:15:52.393+02:00

Great post Dave. Loved every minute as though i was there.
fantastic tent weight for the size. Look forward to reading what you thought of it later.

The environment in that first opicture looks all t...

2011-04-11T12:54:52.079+02:00

The environment in that first opicture looks all too familiar.

Your problems with the snow echo mine and Jorgen's feelings that winter backpacking on skis would be far easier without all that annoying white stuff...

Peter, Thanks. It's the tried and tested Golit...

2011-04-11T11:17:04.537+02:00

Peter, Thanks. It's the tried and tested Golite Shangrila 5. The new model with the 15d Silny. It was a group investement, we wanted a light, wind proof, single skin, backup shelter for four and gravitated towards a big mid. With good reviews, being under 1.3kg including pole and around €250 the Shangrila pushed all the buttons. There'll be more on the tent later in the write up.

Nice writeup. What tent is that?

2011-04-11T10:53:54.949+02:00

Nice writeup. What tent is that?