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BackPacking, Camping, FKTs – Eric Batty

by Molly Hurford | May 29, 2018 | Podcast

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Eric Batty shares his camping experience on the show today. Eric has won the team 24 hours OCR Championships in Vegas, Set FKTs on many trails including the La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney, raced mountain bike at an elite/pro level for many years and now works as an Arborist (he climbs up trees all day!)

Check out https://www.ericbatty.com/blog and his buisiness https://www.brooklintreecare.ca/

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Social and Links

ERIC SITE https://www.ericbatty.com/blog

Eric Batty Photography on Instagram

Brooklin tree care = Eric’s Business for Ontario Tree Removal and Care

Killarney Provincial Park

Article on Peter and Eric Running La Cloche FKT 2010 12:30

Eric Batty Blog on Kilarney La Cloche FKT 2011 (current FKT as of 2018 May)

FKT Proboard

TOPICS AND LINKS FROM TODAYS SHOW:

camping – basic skills,

tents = shelter systems – reliable (rain, winds, thunderstorms)
– often too warm sleep for summer,
– sleep mat = close cell (Thermarest), reliable
– backpack – 90 and 100L perhaps too big for a few days

water – filtration – aqua tabs
– UV – light stick

socks/ shoes?
= consider lighter trail runner for short

= Peter and Eric have used Salomon Trail Runners

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Food – hang it in what?
= bear hanging options videos

food – best lightweight ‘dinner’ ‘ breakfast’?
= dinner in a bag
= JETBOIL – small, quick, canister, pot, built in Flint

bugs =
= superlight bug hat/cover
= sun / wind effect
= off/Deet – hard to say still bug you … maybe not bite

first aid = Can get kits

= clean, gauze, bandaid, safety pin, tweezer, crazy glue for blisters, tape, pills (gravel, Imodium, NSAID)

Brooklin tree care

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