Thanks for all the compliments! I'm ready for another year of reading your reports...
StevenF wrote:Very nice, nothing beats a long trip in the mountains!
A question: when leaving the tent pitched and going for a walk without tent / cooking gear / sleeping bag, did you ever return to find something missing? I'm planning a similar trip and would like to leave the tent pitched in the same place for 2/3 nights. I'm not really worried, but asking doesn't hurt
When I leave my tent for the day, it's well away from habitation or busy roads, but often near or even on a track. I haven't left it for more than a day, to sleep a night in a bothy and then return.
But other hillwalkers would have to do the stealing/vandalism, or gamekeepers or stalkers. Why would they? And they're welcome to a bar of chocolate, or a lump of cheddar if they're starving.
Even animals gnawing at tent or food I've never experienced (the soxygen might scare them off). I wrap food well.