Things necessary | page 3
String: To tie stuff up/together.
Sun hats and sun cream: Because it is always a scorcher when you are camping.
Because it's always a scorcher when you're camping
Cooking Matches: Long matches to light fires, stoves and barbeques.
Mobile phone: Access Google maps for directions, set the alarm clock, time your eggs, call your friends
Ordnance Survey map of the area: Matthew is a great believer in the importance of orientating ourselves on this earth.
My map reading skills are untested.
Crockery and cutlery: Because you can’t always use your fingers.
Corkscrew and can opener: Not just the old rusty ones in the kitchen drawer but ones that actually work. The It-Must-Work law rules out the Swiss Army knife.
Stove, pans and fuel: A methylated spirit stove (Trangia) packs down really small and comes with pans, but a two ring propane stove does mean you can extend your culinary options.
Kitchen utensils: A wooden spoon, a nylon sieve, a fish slice.
First aid kit
Insect repellent
Toilet paper: Three rolls.
Bin bags: For your rubbish and for quarantining wet or dirty clothes in.
Food: For when you arrive, something you can easily heat up once you’ve pitched the tent.
Basic cooking ingredients: Olive oil, salt and pepper, butter and some tinned food. This really depends on what you have to store it all in.
Storing food in the car is much safer as you won’t get wildlife hassling you for your dinner. Or you can hang food from a branch so that only the squirrels can reach it.
Snacks: Something that is calorific and won’t melt in the sun.
Toiletries: Unless space is no problem, stick to the bare minimum. I have in the past taken a special wash that is suitable for clothes, dishes, skin and hair. Makes you wonder if this whole washing-up liquid, body gel, shampoo divide is entirely arbitrary.
