Last this year. The short days and rain that will keep me from going. Down to freezing at night would be OK.

But who knows, maybe the autumn will give more opportunities, was like 20°C later in the day, T-shirt time, so nice.

I am not sure if I get this right, but I intend to go back there and I have been a bunch of times. Spot is an official bivouac spot, although there are no facilities there, just camping allowed. It is nice for me to start in the afternoon and have a safe spot to get out to.

Used to be camp fires allowed there but I guess it got out of hand, no more. This morning I also saw a bunch of tissues lying around, and a big bag of trash, even though you’re supposed to take it all with you. Bummer. I hope they won’t close these spots down completely, I don’t get people. I mean they must be some outdoor people too, what are they doing.

Haute fagnes area, Hertogenwald. Quite some people out today, no wonder, what a lovely day it is.

Hope the weather stays nice for a bit and you get out too!

Damn. Either I’m not getting some reference or you’re a fantastic poet.

I arrived at the spot in the dark, so the morning was giving me a new view.

How the hell does this parking garage even work? Looks like a whole lot of the slots are being trapped by other cars or am I missing something here?

Awesome, thanks so much.

Yeah, that ain’t a thing. If you’re lucky there may be one or a few* communal fire places, but it’s kinda rare. I have been the only on two, three official camp sites in Norway because I wild camped the rest, but I don’t remember seeing a fire place there either, although they may have had a communal one too. Refuges in the mountains often have an indoor fire place though.

*only really remember a single one that had a few, the one at Saignelégier, Switzerland.

That is really cool that you have these, basically unheard of in Europe, maybe some places in Scandinavia.

Sweet. The fire place was part of the site?

I am using a simpler one, like this. But yours looks pretty cool, you can do screw mount to screw mount with it too, right?

Nice, this is a stove that uses these slim butane canisters, right? I buy these canisters to refill my screw mount ones, they cost like a fifth at the Indian supermarket. Works fine if not freezing.

Haha. Heineken was the only cold beer they had yesterday at the supermarket, otherwise would be about my last choice.

Contrex

Found the French! :)

edit: that got me thinking. Heineken is probably paying intermarché for that to be the case, bastards, I will choose a warm beer next time.

I don’t think so, but fingerbiking around the pot is a great way to kill some time, waiting for the water to boil.

Thanks for the update!

Yeah postin pictures on lemmy works pretty good 😁 Thank you for sharing, looks lovely!

I should maybe add that i have quite some experience camping, know what makes a good spot and how to set up my tent properly and will always have some more dry layers to put on if it gets too cold. I have quality sleeping bags, which temperature ratings i trust, or actually can confirm.

I would reckon that should work, if you are camping at those temperatures surely you must also have some dry layers to put on in your car if it gets too cold somehow. I was sleeping comfortable in my 25°F limit bag in a 32°F, non windy night (comfort temp 35°F) in just underpants. I am a hot sleeper though. If it is just the odd night i would noit worry, but i am also always keen to save weight and volume.

If you are scratching around the 32°F for multiple nights though, maybe look at some sleeping bag liners too, they’re pretty cool and can be used nicely as a sole “bag” in summer and give you a few degrees extra in cold nights. Also way easier to wash than a sleeping bag.

And yeah, insulated pad is important, but seems like you are good on that end.

Oh thank you, yeah so nice to have them here. I was on a longer holiday and while i was gone some woman from a neighbour house put some letters around the neighbourhood, and apparently even inside our house on the letterboxes, complaining about us (i guess guy from downstairs and me) feeding the birds, especially about the parakeets since they would make so much noise. And they’d be breeding oppsite of the yard. The horror! And that the pigeons pick up scraps from the small bird feeders, how dare they!

Was such a bummer when i came back home, i was so curious how all the birds would be going off, but it seemed everybody had removed their feeders and it was kinda quiet. I did not see the letters myself, guy from downstairs just told me about it.

I did not set up my feeders yet because the breeding pigeons on my balcony, and i am going on holiday again as well, will do so when i come back home, guy from downstairs will set his up too in october. As long as the people in my house are ok with us feeding birds, which they are, i don’t care what that woman thinks. Also mid october will be the time when the parakeets will be sitting in the hornbeam in the garden, snacking its seeds non stop for a week or so, haha. Looking forward to that.

I thought it was bed hair, but cowlick is pretty good!

Haha. Yeah nah it’s just a seed lamp :)