Packing Strategy for Camping: Use case based packing strategy

The concept is simple, it is use case based, and then the packing sequence is last in first out (LIFO).

First of all, let's demonstrate the LIFO principle.  Let me use the tent as the example, when you pitch the tent, the very first thing is to put down the footprint, and then the inner mesh, the outer shelter.  According to the LIFO principle, therefore the outer shelter shall be placed at the bottom of the tent bag, and then the inner mesh, and finally the footprint is on the top.

The above shows how a particular system should be packed.  And we shall extend the LIFO principle to the use case.  When we arrive to a particular campsite, the very first thing you will do, is probably to setup the shelter/fly... and then to pitch the tent, put all the stuff that belongs to the tent inside, like your sleeping bag, the sleeping pad, the air pump if you use one, the small camping lantern, etc.  After doing so, you might want to roll out your camping table and the chair under the shelter, take out your cooking system, the food, etc.  Here, shelter/fly is a use case, sleeping is a use case, and cooking is another one.  You then pack those systems according to your use case, and the sort then by the LIFO principle.

Therefore, when I pack my camping backpack, I will put in my cooking system at the lowest bottom, or my sleeping system at the lowest bottom, depending on whether I will cook first or not.  The camping chair and table should be at the lower part of the backpack.  And those at the top should be the shelter, fly or my tent.  And the one on the very top should be the lighting system, if you arrive the campsite at night.  And the hydration system should be on top as well, given the water source might come before you arrive the campsite.

Camping involves a big backpack, and the stuff inside could be rather messy.  Packing them according to the use case is always good so that you will always know where a particular items will be.  We won't want to drag everything out just to find a single item from your backpack in the wilderness.  Keeping things organized will help you to avoid leaving an important item at home

露營輕量化物料

露營用品有好多種類，輕量化主要都係靠用唔同既物料，其實留意呢啲物料，已經差不多搵到合適既用品。

金屬最重係不鏽鋼、鐵，輕啲就係鋁，不過鋁都分好多級，再輕就係鈦。

金屬主要都係做煮食用具，或者天幕杆，好壞處呢度唔講，因為今次係集中講重量。

煮食用品最輕都係鋁同埋鈦，但天幕杆暫時都未見有鈦既，而近來都有碳纖維造既，實在都輕好多。

另外露營枱櫈，亦有鋁造既，同埋碳纖，當然碳纖又會輕啲。

最後係天幕、同埋營，最平依家似乎都係格子布或牛津布 (210T, etc)，呢類面料相當厚實，但係會比較重；輕一啲有 silnylon (15D/20D/etc)，最輕就係 Cuben fibre 或者 Dyneema Composite (有人譯做粗笨，大力馬)，但就貴到嘔血。

Prosperity at a distance

Prosperity is real, but the dark side is equally real.

The light casts a shadow all the way to the dark side, but behind the mesh, everything remains untouched.

Building up of the city

I am trying to pick up photography again, so here we go:

The silent typhoon shelter features the silhouette of the cargo moving ships, the light shadow of the high rise building cast back of the calm sea surface.

The misty sky covered the future, while the hardworking ships were dimmed.

DIY 碳纖天幕杆 2.0

長咀一戰，舊版天幕杆斷了，斷的是金屬接口位，立即計劃造 2.0 版本，今次不要金屬接口，一方面可以更輕，也希望可以增加強度，而且不用處理麻煩的碳纖布，當然也更美觀！

接駁方法係，用幼一點的碳纖管！但要解決的問題有二：

1. 大管未必套得入細管，因為所謂 14mm 也不是絕對，可能需要磨薄
2. 細管套入大管後，要想方法固定

實驗証明其實呢個方法仲簡單，又靚仔，但穩固程度有待實地測試！

我只用超能膠做接口，但應該不是受力位，大概可以吧？就算膠水失效，回家稍稍再粘回即可！除非碳纖部份受損，製成品：

比起舊版本更輕了  (192g vs. 219g)！又易造、更美觀！

https://osioworld.blogspot.com/2018/04/going-ultralight-carbon-fibre-poles-diy.html

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某次露營又斷了，斷口是接駁的 14mm 桿：

但因為家中還有接駁用的 14mm 後備桿，很快就修復好了：

這位置無疑是最弱位 (weakest link)，或者下次改用較厚實的 14mm，現在是用 1mm 厚的，或許略為不足？這永遠是重量與堅硬度的平衡，沒有完美的答案。