Planning

Trail talk: Hiking in Menorca: the GR 223

The Camí de Cavalls– the Horse’s Path Menorca is a fairly small island in the western Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the Balearic Islands, an archipelago of Spain, near […]

Cooking

Gear talk: What gear wears out on a long hike?

Lightweight modern gear can be surprisingly tough. With care much […]

Cooking

Trail food- lentil curry

Three Points of the Compass was talking to another long distance hiker a couple of days ago and I was asked what I favoured as an evening meal on trail. […]

Hydration

Trail talk: The South Downs Way in winter- water sources

Three Points of the Compass walked the South Downs Way […]

Food

Three Points of the Compass- I’ve done it!

It took a month longer than I thought it would, […]

Cooking

Six days until my ‘Big Walk’- Food, water…. and wine

“If you can drink the water I will drink the […]

Gear

Thirty days to my ‘Big Walk’

The picture above shows Three Points of the Compass and daughter hiking Hadrian’s Wall in 2014. Together with Mrs Three Points of the Compass we experienced a typical mixed bag […]

books

Thirty five days to my ‘Big Walk’

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail!” Benjamin Franklin Thirty-five days until I set off and I am still umming and ahhing over a small number of route […]

Planning

Fifty days to my ‘Big Walk’

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success” Alexander Graham Bell The off grows ever nearer, half a hundred days away. So what am I up to? I am […]

Gear

Sixty days to my ‘Big Walk’

I recently did a brief post on how I was getting on with cleaning knives and multi-tools at home, while struck down with minor illness. In a response to this, […]

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