Kilted backpacking

**Iain Robb** · 23rd April 09, 04:05 PM

Just got back from my second kilted backpacking trip. Or maybe it's my first, since I have no pictures of my trip in North Carolina. This one was closer to home, in Central Florida. More precisely, in the Richloam tract of the Withlacoochee State Forest. Thankfully, we haven't had much rain, and we had a lot of colder weather later this year, so bugs weren't an issue.

An in case you are wondering, I am indeed wearing a sporran. It's just a 30L backhangar sporran.

Other than one very cold night (at least for a hammock) and having to carry a lot of extra water to a dry campsite, it was great.

**ChattanCat** · 23rd April 09, 04:29 PM

Always great to get into the outdoors and explore. Great shot, so now we have proof that it happened.

**GMan** · 23rd April 09, 06:59 PM

Love it!

**English Bloke** · 23rd April 09, 08:10 PM

What a great picture!

**Yodhan** · 23rd April 09, 08:17 PM

I am planning on hiking the Appalachian Trial in a couple years with a dear friend of mine. We both swore we would hike as much of it as we could in a kilt. In the beginning, we will most likely not be in a kilt, mainly because it gets cold. But, as soon as we can, off with the rain pants and on with the kilts. He did it a couple years ago and wore a Utilikilt in the warm parts and loved it.

I am heading to Virginia this May to hike for a few days in Shenandoah and I will, of course, be wearing a kilt. I will post pictures if I can, but I don'tknow if there will be anyone to take them, as I am going alone for this trip.

**SteveB** · 23rd April 09, 08:40 PM

Does your camera have a timer?
Most digital cameras today have them as standard equipment, you may have to ask a small child how to work it....

**Yodhan** · 23rd April 09, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by SteveB

Does your camera have a timer?
Most digital cameras today have them as standard equipment, you may have to ask a small child how to work it....

It probably does, but it is a professional level Nikon and I sometimes worry about letting people use it who I am not too familiar with.

**Iain Robb** · 24th April 09, 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by SteveB

Does your camera have a timer?
Most digital cameras today have them as standard equipment, you may have to ask a small child how to work it....

That's how I took this. Camera mounted on my hiking stick, leaning on a tree, self-timer on. All my old manual Nikons have a self-timer; I'm willing to bet all the newer digital whizbang Nikons have better ones.

**Iain Robb** · 24th April 09, 04:25 AM

This is how my hammock and tarp look ...

GG · 26th April 09, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by Iain Robb

I'm willing to bet all the newer digital whizbang Nikons have better ones.

They have. For the D40-D5000 series you can use a cheap infra-red remote control, costing no more than about $25, I guess - in Denmark a little bit more - and for the more expensive D300-D3x you'll have to use an 8-10 times more expensive remote control. Thinks are connected, you see. The expensive one works just as well as the cheap one, but you have to mount a device on top of the camera as well and thereby the expensive one is more complicated to use.

Greg