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Hey Red Hat - congratulations and I'm glad you made your health your priority. Thanks for all your supportive words during my hike. I'm glad I got to meet you along the way!

The Steripen is ****e. I gave up on mine in the Smokies. Don't bother with it.

Some very unoriginal responses as to why not to watch the football, though I've come to expect that from you folk this side of the pond ;) Perhaps you should come down here and learn a thing about...

This coming saturday on the 12th of June at around 1330 there will be a gathering of this years thru- hikers to watch the clash of our two great nations in the greatest spectacle on this planet we...

I was encouraged to make a documentary and gave it some serious thought. However, I thought hiking be difficult enough, let alone with someone else AND participating in a documentary would be too...

I carry mine in the tub that my granite gear air compressor sack came in! I put in two little sachets of Silica Gel to absorb the moisture. It is advised that you don't use camera film cases. I...

I have a website, but I will link the journal section up to postholer and will post photos on the website so I have the best of both worlds. It's just easier to use a blog host as I don't want to be...

Rab are a UK brand and probably have the best reputation out of any manufacturer for outdoor gear over here. I have a Rab sleeping bag (Quantum 250) and it is excellent. I highly recommend their...

I don't think they make them in an ultralight version so probably not... you'd have to use helium to inflate it before hikers would even consider it... not hydrogen though, as that would rule out...

I am due to start a Bushcraft Instructor course in the UK a week after I return from the US. I nearly didn't get a place as I have no background in natural history (I made up for it on the expedition...

I stopped shaving a couple of months ago and had intended to keep the growth going until my brothers wedding two weeks after I'm due to fly back (hopefully on the back of a successful attempt)....

These?

I'm with you on that one.

Panasonic Lumix are fantastic cameras at a good price for what they are. They are very close to SLR quality with many great functions. I'll be taking mine on my thru-hike attempt this year.

yep - hiking the approach trail on the 14th. Will probably be seeing you then! 29 days to go as I write this...

It really isn't. I'm not quite sure what I've done right?! I'll buy you a consolatory beer at the April Fools Hiker Bash. Wouldn't want to get the wrong side of someone named Jester!

My girlfriend printed off some reduced size pictures (photo id size), stuck two back to back and then laminated them. She also wrote some inspiring quotes on the back of them for the "difficult...

I have a belief about why people are attracted to doing these things (I blogged about it here. I think people who go through testing times question their place in the world and that often leads to a...

No - but I will certainly check it out. Thanks!

I have just received the fantastic news that I have been awarded a travelling fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. The awards are given based on the Trust's objects:

“The...

I'm thinking about getting one of these. I broke my wrist and thumb quite badly so I get very bad pains after handwriting a few sentences. I really want to keep an active journal and have read good...

I thought the second amendment existed to deter us limey's from even conjuring such a plan ;)

We're not a danger to anyone these days. All the little kids that we used to bully are all grown up...

I'm not concerned - I was just unaware of any recent homicides on the AT (which is what he meant).

I was just relieved to get the visa as there has been a bit of a crack down on them. Even a...

Despite several hiccups and a lot of worrying - my visa application was approved and I am free to enter the US for a period of up to 180 days. I'm delighted of course as thru-hiking the AT would have...

Funnily enough - he's keeping one on here! Just go to the blog tab, then blog list and you'll see his!