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Cheers Trig! For food, I carried porridge and multipacks of pain au chocolats for breakfast, washed down with lashings of nutella and coffee. For lunch- salami sausage/cheese/bread, with more nutella and also snickers bars. For dinner- cous cous mixed with soup sachets and nuts. pudding was...

haha! It's worth the effort if you're walking lots, or if you want a simpler set up with less time spent faffing! Having said that, when I'm just out on a quick overnighter near home, I often pack the kitchen sink :D

Thanks for having a look! Here's a download link to the kit spreadsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hbsz86y6aqt2bfd/kit%20spreadsheet.xls?dl=0 Not sure how to embed images on here so hope that link works instead!

Kit list video is now up :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWCjTPX0pD0

Thanks for having a look guys. My tent is a Tarptent Notch. It also comes with an inner skin made from midge netting with a silnylon floor, but I left it at home to save weight. It's an amazing tent and I've used it on loads of long hiking trips.

This summer I hiked across the high Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean on the Haute Route Pyrenees. It was an absolutely incredible experience which took about 40 days (including several rest days/additional summit days). I wild camped most nights and carried my own food. I made a...

Great report Shewie. Some of those views look stunning. Shame about the cheeky fox, but at least you didn't have to go hungry for too long! Any chance you could post a bit of a rough kit list? :)

Le Rozier was now below me. Here I could see down onto a particularly posh looking house. Not something I had seen much of on this trip. My first sight of the bridge at Le Rozier: The foot of the trail, where a tree has begun to claim this sign: Le Rozier: The last sign for the...

Ok so it's about time I added the final entry to this trip report. I got distracted by work and other commitments. I've also been putting it off because I that found reminiscing about this trip was getting me down. I sometimes feel like I retrace this hike every day in my head. I'll suddenly...

Hello and welcome! Like many others have said- don't think you need to buy loads of fancy/expensive equipment to practice bushcraft. By far the best book I can recommend is "essential bushcraft" by ray mears. It covers all of the basics. Best things to start with would be a ferro rod set...

Also, doing half the miles would be a great idea- I never got much of a chance to explore the villages because I either had to keep going, or I was too tired from walking all day to do anything but rest!

Elen, the screes really aren't too bad- the path is usually very well established across them, providing a flat walking surface. You just need to make sure that you're a bit more cautious. You never have to go down any either, just across. The only truly dangerous one was the one that I...

Thanks guys. I'd been hoping to try Aligot at some point on the trip so it was great to finally have some as my final dinner, sitting right beside the Tarn! I may have to look for a recipe.

My original plan for this day had been to make it an easy walk of 15 or so km from Sainte-Enimie to La Malene. However, I soon realised that it would be much wiser to try to do my usual 30km distance, and reach the town of Les Vignes further down the gorge. This would mean that my final day of...

High praise indeed! Thank you very much :)

Glad you're enjoying the write-up. Thanks for reading! I want to go back already and it was only a month or so ago that I finished! I think next year I'm going to do a longer hike that also goes along the plateau at the top of the gorge.

I said my goodbyes to Paul in the morning and set off to the river bank in Florac, where I picked up the trail that I would be following for the next 3 days. It was pretty nerve wracking at this point because I knew I had to cover 30km to reach Sainte-Enimie, where I would be camping for the...

Day 3: By day 3, the weather was hotting up. The destination was the tourist town of Florac- considered by many to be the capital of the Cevennes. From there, I would begin the second part of my journey, leaving the RLS trail and heading west to follow the Tarn gorge for another 3 days. The...

By the way, the tarp I now have is the Elite Evolution 3x3 basha recommended to me by simonM on this forum.

That sounds like a horrible experience. I too bought an 'army issue' tarp from my local surplus store, and had the same problem with the centre seam. Applying seam sealer did not fix it either. However, there is a range of cheap camo gear that gets sold as MOD kit but is in fact just cheap and...