A good night's kip???
With not very long to go until I head off once again to battle the mountains, headwinds and dirt roads of Ecuador... it is time to finalise some kit choices. You may have seen posts on my fb page (www.facebook.ckm/OneChallengeAtATime) with some new kit that I am taking... including a water filter and a backcountry hole digger for when there is no other option but to dig a hole. These are both pieces of kit that I haven't taken on a challenge with me before and it will be interesting to see how much use I have for either. One piece of kit that I will be utilising over and over again will be my sleeping kit system. On the Tour Divide, I took a bivvy bag, air matt, and tarpaulin for backcountry bivvys.... on my first night rigging up the tarp to a digger!!! Because I figure I will encounter more precipitation in Ecuador, this time I am taking a small tent instead of the bivvy and tarp. My air bed on the Divide was an Alpkit Numo, which was extremely light, packed up very sma