What I carried on the Ceredigion Coast Path

Clothing

• Lightweight Scarpa boots
• Fresh socks for each day
• Fresh pants for each day!!
• Short sleeve merino shirt
• Long sleeve merino shirt
• Fleece jacket
• Very lightweight Mountain Equipment insulating jacket
• Thick walking trousers
• Very lightweight trousers (for wearing in my accommodations)
• Sandals (for wearing in my accommodations)
• Two pairs of winter gloves [not used]
• Two buffs [only used one]
• Waterproof hat
• Woolly hat
• Lightweight Rab waterproof jacket
• Lightweight Rab waterproof trousers

Gear

• Osprey 30 litre Tempest rucksack
• Map
• Compass
• First Aid kit including emergency kit e.g. headlamp, knife [took way too much stuff here]
• Backup emergency phone
• 1 litre water bottle
• 0.5 litre water bottle
• 2 Trek bars
• 2 fruity bars
• iPhone including maps, charger and back up charger case
• Camera and waterproof bag
• Emergency loo events bag [not used!]
• Toiletries – toothbrush, toothpaste, moisturiser, sun cream, arnica salve (worked wonders on my feet)
• Contact lenses and small mirror
• 2 pkts tissues
• 2 lightweight Fizan walking poles
• Little Ted

The Osprey Tempest prides itself on its walking pole stowage system which on the couple of times I’d used it prior to this trip worked fine. I decided to use just one pole through the mud and stowed the second one. I’d tightened it as much as it would go. And then of course, it disappeared. I had no idea when or where, probably one of the many times I fell over on Day 1. So I had a failed rucksack and a lost pole. All very irritating. I’m now waiting to see what Cotswold Outdoor are going to do for me. Osprey themselves seem to have a very good customer service section. Will report back.

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