My bug bivy left the continental US yesterday. It should arrive here early next week. With this I pretty much have everything that I need. Now I don't know what to waste my money on 
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Anyway, in a little under a month I'll be attending the first class for my Master of Public Policy. Should be good.
My rudimentary (at best!) skills with the flute seem to have deserted me. Kind of annoying. Hopefully they will return in the very near future.
Well, that's about it. With luck I'll have something different to talk about when I next blog (well, we can all hope so, anyway).
Published on Friday 15th January 2010
Comments (9)Josh
That was the last item. I'm now set for prety much any type of hiking. Somewhat unfortunately, I'm now going to spend most of my weekends reading for uni.
boyter
Bahahahaha
"Eternal life or your money back!" 
TeX
May i ask what was wrong with the 1 man tent you had?
Josh
Nothing at all; that tent is still my ultimate hiking item.
That said, the bug bivy weighs only 450g. It will be good whenever I'm hut hiking (Tas or NZ, whichever comes first) or when I'm too weak to carry my featherweight tent on a clear sky summer hike.
In the end, the dollar was/is pretty strong and I had been thinking about buying it for 6 months. It was an impulse buy, but at least I can rationalise it in my own mind!
boyter
You and your insane amounts of hiking equipment.
I think I am getting close to the dream of 10kg hiking. I worked it out this morning,
Pack 2kg
Bivy 1kg
Sleeping Bag 1kg
Water 4kg
Food 1kg
If I then just used the same clothes and brought as little else as possible I would be in the 10-12kg range I recon.
"Eternal life or your money back!"
Josh
I have the bivy. All seems good. I only need to buy some pegs and I'll be set.
So...
TeX
What about liner, matches, knife, torch, grog etc.
I reckon it would be nigh impossible to get to 10kg unless really cutting back
boyter
I am going to cut back something fierce. 10kg is the goal. 12kg would be excellent.
"Eternal life or your money back!"
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boyter
Bloody hell Toohey... you are opening a disposals shop arent you?
"Eternal life or your money back!"