Booked two weeks and a single week off at each end of August for family holiday. We've had a few years cycle touring as a family of 3 one started at 3.5yo and is now 10.5yo. With covid breaks I might add.
Us adults have wildcanped and backpacker many times before kid. One in out of the way places.
It's got me thinking whether there is much different between fully loaded cycle touring and fully loaded backpacking. Obviously creditcard touring by foot or bike is different again. If anyone has done multi day trips by both ways, indeed by other modes of transport too, what do you think is the difference, if any?
I'm wondering because we need to plan our route and kit. Cycle touring we take a trangia with gas conversion and meths burner. When we backpacker before meeting we both used various stoves, me more than my now partner. I used can top stove, honey stove with meths burner, Whitebox stove, caldera come, AGG cookset, etc. I went tarp and bivvy route, she went double skin force 10 ul tent. I went very minimalist when backpacking, got my kit into 20l alpkit Gourdon sack on occasion. I once went about 6.5kg base load with food for a week and a 1.5 litre bladder of water too!
Cycle touring weight isn't too critical but bulk is not great. Once moving a good tourer copes with weight, certainly my recumbent did.
Then you have the added young un factor. That's like a whole other activity in itself.
I'm rambling here but I'm basically curious as to views on how kit lists for moving trips via different modes or mixes of transport changes for people.
Us adults have wildcanped and backpacker many times before kid. One in out of the way places.
It's got me thinking whether there is much different between fully loaded cycle touring and fully loaded backpacking. Obviously creditcard touring by foot or bike is different again. If anyone has done multi day trips by both ways, indeed by other modes of transport too, what do you think is the difference, if any?
I'm wondering because we need to plan our route and kit. Cycle touring we take a trangia with gas conversion and meths burner. When we backpacker before meeting we both used various stoves, me more than my now partner. I used can top stove, honey stove with meths burner, Whitebox stove, caldera come, AGG cookset, etc. I went tarp and bivvy route, she went double skin force 10 ul tent. I went very minimalist when backpacking, got my kit into 20l alpkit Gourdon sack on occasion. I once went about 6.5kg base load with food for a week and a 1.5 litre bladder of water too!
Cycle touring weight isn't too critical but bulk is not great. Once moving a good tourer copes with weight, certainly my recumbent did.
Then you have the added young un factor. That's like a whole other activity in itself.
I'm rambling here but I'm basically curious as to views on how kit lists for moving trips via different modes or mixes of transport changes for people.
