I find my birthdays weirdly stressful. I still get a childlike buildup in the days leading, and it all comes crashing down when I then focus on how old I’ve become, how little I feel I’ve achieved in the past year, and how fast time seems to be flying by. Obviously, all super unhealthy! So last year, I decided to distract myself with a packraft mission. Float down the river that I grew up next to.
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Ok, truth be told this isn’t actually my first packraft. I bought a DIY packraft kit many years ago, began making it and got so stressed out by it I tucked it away in a box. This is my first complete packraft that I bought to try and push myself to finish the original one.
So what is a Packraft?
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I headed out beyond South London to try to make a short film about bivi camping. Unfortunately I didn’t quite account for how early the sun would go down so it was pitch-dark by the time I found my campsite.
I’ve been telling myself for weeks that I needed another sleep under the stars but every weekend I seemed to find another excuse to not go away. I’d either have plans with friends, the weather would be terrible or I just felt too tired. Fortunately this week has a bank holiday weekend! I managed to have a very sociable weekend and as Sunday evening approached, the weather was too nice not to make the most of.
“You can’t do that,” said Pete as I began to leave work, with one of the most worried faces I’ve ever seen him make, and “I really don’t like that, Why are you going by yourself?” “Because who else would want to sleep on a hill, mid January, with no tent?” I replied.