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pack a rucksack

This is a guide to how to pack a rucksack for a 3-4 day rural hike. If, like me, you have packing nightmares where everyone is in the car, engine running, and you haven’t packed yet, this blog article is for you. This advice is for us luxury hikers who appreciate our creature comforts like a hot shower, pub meal and soft bed at the end of a day’s walk. Wild campers, look elsewhere!

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how to go for a walk

Walking is not hard. But sometimes, in that perverse way we have, we choose to make it hard. Or hearty at least. We choose to set out on a blimmin’ long hike, carrying a heavy rucksack, and leaving behind our cosy homes and creature comforts to pit ourselves against the weather and landscape. What follows is some hopefully helpful advice about how to pare it back to the basics, keep it simple and make walking hearty, heart-filled but not hard.

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