Tag: backpacking

An eventful 2013 solo backpacking trip

17 May 2020

In 2013, an eventful solo backpacking trip to find the route to the bottom of an unclimbed mountain took me to unheard-of corner of an unheard-of country. The guidebook to Kyrgyzstan is over two hundred pages long, covering the six provinces of the country. Batken province is mentioned for two and half pages on it, […]

#TimOnTour Kyrgyzstan 2013 – Exploring Central Asia's lesser known mountains

29 September 2013

What's going on here? I'm on a two week trek, exploring a lesser known part of Kyrgystan, in central Asia. I'm publishing my location (with a Spot device) and that I'm OK, at regular intervals. Where are you right now? Back in the UK. Where did you go? Have a look at this map. What […]

Sustainable power solutions for consumer electronics, for areas where power is sparse?

4 November 2012

I've just been to northern sweden backpacking, and as part of my kit, I took 9 batteries for my Canon DSLR. That might sound excessive, though considering I was going for 12 days, my camera was the only source of "entertainment" I was taking, and I was planning on shooting lots of video – not […]

#timontour Kungsleden/Abisko – Video Blog

25 October 2012

I recently got back from an epic backpacking adventure in Northern Sweden. It was essentially 12 days of walking through the Swedish mountains, in the Arctic Circle, on my own. Every day (ish) I made a video blog, and whilst I've not finished (not started actually!) processing the mass of photos and video I took, […]

#timontour Abisko/Kungsleden 2012

2 October 2012

When I first thought about going hiking in Northern Sweden, I had considered doing it in summer, with beautiful sunshine beating down, swimming in glacier fed lakes… In fact, I chose not to do it then because I didn't fancy 24 hour sunlight if I was trying to camp in a tent… In October, there will be […]

#timontour: Central Fells – 5 Wainrights

8 January 2012

I have known that I really wanted to go camping (as in backpacking) sometime in January for quite a while. Why? Why January, you might reasonably ask. You might point out it's cold, the weather is rubbish and so the mere concept is bordering on crazy. Perhaps I should "go and watch TV instead"… After […]

#timontour VBlog: Western Lakes 2011 (Epic-navigation-fail edition)

17 October 2011

As you may have seen, I've been hiking around the Western Lake District over the past few days as part of #timontour. I've just uploaded all the video blog entries I made over the last few days… Enjoy! httpv://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E734F88F2BE3C64