"Viajar a pie" is Spanish for "Travelling on foot"

Category: Winter

Winter backpacking in storm times

A long weekend, second wave pandemic times with inter-regional travel ban and a named storm bringing a winter spell to the local hills. A three-tier challenge to remind me why I love backpacking.

Ski-Packing

Just when you thought you were done with any new flavor of “packing”, let me add another one…

Lightweight winter packing is heavy

This is striking: the same techniques that render a featherweight summer pack put a brick on your shoulders in the winter. It may seem obvious why but let’s do a bit of analysis: it’s always fun and sometimes revealing.

Travelling in the winter

Where “winter” stands for mountain weather in the mid latitudes for that half of the year

Looks like black&white except for the tent

General belief about winter conditions in the mid latitudes relates to highly technical activities where the activity itself is the goal and not the means to get somewhere: climb the mountain for the sake of climbing it, not to cross onto the other side.

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