Essential Gear for the Camino Portuguese
Essential Gear for the Camino Portuguese What's in my Pilgrim Backpack? We are a couple days away from striking out onto the Way, along the Camino Portuguese route. Key to this, and the part we have most struggled with (the part everyone struggles with), is packing our bags. What to take? What worked before? What didn’t work? What is different given our ages now and experiences since? We hope to take our packs for the entire length of the trail, and realistically we are only able to carry so much comfortably. While this seems easy, the desire to stay comfortable hiking while also being prepared for a range of temperatures and weather types, being able to clean up, change at night, et cetera makes it a little bit of a challenge. Given the range of choices we all face at this point, we thought we would share what is in our backpacks, perhaps serving as something useful for what others might carry. Three things to remember here a...