How does this sound for an idea?
Head out one evening with a few friends for a delicious meal and a few drinks.
If you like the sound of that, why not try something similar to this video over the next few weeks as part of the solstice microadventure challenge?
5 to 9 Microadventure from Alastair Humphreys on Vimeo.
You don’t need much stuff or time. Just pack this gear and whatever you fancy for dinner…
Hmpf…
I wish I hadn’t read this just before setting out to collect someone from Manchester Airport (130 mile round trip) at 8pm…
Wow! For the price of that round trip you could have bought them a bike for them to transport themselves!
Ha ha, she arrived from Colombia (18 hours; 3 flights) to stay for a year, I’m sure cycling was the last thing on her mind!
I’m writing this looking at the clouds clearing to see the stars on my own microadventure. Cycling the way for the millennium ( 42 mile path ) and then back in a loop back home for breakfast prob around 80 ish miles total . Night night.
Nothing better than clouds clearing to reveal the stars above. Hope you had a good night out there.
Getting inspirations from your articles, I am venturing out more and more on my own micro-adventures, which basically revolve around taking my dogs out, one at a time, on day-long hikes. My pictures always have landscapes with leash of the dogs in the foreground, dog(s) in the centre, and the scene in the background :-)
Thank you for sharing.
Good stuff Saul- keep at it!
On a different note did anyone watch The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest?
Still on BBCiPlayer and worth a watch!
Follows George Mallory’s attempt back in the 1920’s, very impressive..
Im envious of not having the opportunity to live in this era with its unspoilt adventure.
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excellent little video as always – but I think you need to give those Howies boys some tips on going lightweight!
On my last off road “overnight with the bike” trip I tried a Blizzard Bag for the first time instead of a sleeping bag and a bivy bag, 385g all in and was plenty warm enough. Got all my kit for 2 days with 4 meals in a 20 litre Alpkit Gourdon and a little drybag strapped to the bars
Noted! I have always found that however little stuff I take out, I only use half of it. I need to get better at predicting which half is useless.
Alastair, when you come to America look me up, I’ll take you backpacking to Congaree Swamp National Forest. One of the last of the great floodplain forests that once covered the Eastern US. Just not in the summer, though, the mosquitoes will carry you away.