Wanderings up North

So this is a work in progress mod,as i need to try it in the snow first..Last nite was first its been dry this week so i shot into the garden as soon as i got home and got the Duomid up...then it started raining !!   So a good friend who walked across Scotland with me was kind enough to knock me these 3 Cuben tabs up for me,ta Matt Holland So the other item i used was this foil blanket that i bought two years ago off Ultralight outdoors and its lasted really well,very tough and worth the money    The last item was 3 S clips that i think i took off an old SL3 floor that i cut into a smaller size many years ago   So nothing posh just stuck on the three Cuben loops two on the door and one onto the 2nd door ? .. the idea being that once im in just fasten these 3 hooks up then push my pack and boots (This is only a winter item) and that should,i hope stop the spindrift.      On all the other ...

So ive been using the Cuben Duomid just over 12 mths now and have been very impressed,but have lapsed back a few times to my trailstar..    Recently had a few very windy and snowy nites and had a bit of spindrift come in.Now some has come under the door and i have a winter mod to do yet on that,next wk with some luck .But this quick fix mod is around the roof vent ..i found that the velcro on mine didnt match up enough to hold it shut when windy           I had a very helpful friend ,Matt Holland,stitch me some velcro on some cuben tape. Vent as standard I had two pieces of cuben tape with velcro sewn on So i took two pieces and stuck them either side of the middle and below the existing velcro strip You can see the two pieces above While on this picture the other mod i copied off Robin over on Blogpacking light is to make a guy from inside the roof cone down to the door guy.I used 4" of 1/4" bungy at the top then just...

  So with more snow that had fallen through the week another wild camp was plotted throught the week,this time Alex  decided to use up some browny points and walk with me and Lee For a while you could almost believe we were going to get one full day of blue skies and snowy vistas Our route took us up the Band to Three tarns the snow in places Knee deep The views as always on a good winters day,were very good if hazy in the distance The steep pull up to Bowfell was testing Alex,who hadnt been on the hill for a while,but he dug deep and pushed himself upwards His Lordship Oscar trying to look aloof Scafells looking wintery     Apart form us and our gear the day was in complete monochrome  Shortly after leaving Ore gap the snow came on and was too stay till very early the next morning The plan had been to camp on Great End col,but with no view and lowering clag...