One chilly night!

Testing our tarp tent

Last night we tried out our new tarp tent - a silicon-coated nylon skin with a mosquito net inner. It only weighs a kilo and sets up with two walking poles. It's not really designed for the British climate though, chilly in the night and heavy condensation this morning, but should be good in California.

Our tarp tent is the Lunar Duo from Six Moon Designs.

Not long now ...

Just 8 days to go before we hand over our house to our tenants, Graham and Phil, and so much to do!

There's been some last minute shopping as a result of the 11th hour warm weather training - lighter everything required. Still need to figure out how to attach my umbrella to my rucksack though!

Current plan is to try out the tarptent tonight, see how easy it is to put up, and how cold it is inside, having only a mozzie-net inner.

We've also been playing with our SPOT device to persuade it to talk to our blog and update our position, so apologies if the PCT appears to start in Kendal.