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      <image:caption>Final adjustments to my pitch for the night</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neil’s tent, with Bradfield Moors in the distance</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Early morning ethereal light and fog</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Arctic Norway or the Peak District?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/momentsinthewilderness</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-16</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/backpacking-the-arctic-circle-trail</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>You can extend the trail by starting at Point 660, the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hiking on the trail in good weather</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An Arctic Fox appeared in camp on the first day of the trail proper</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Much of the trail on the northern route is way marked with basic cairns</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The trail follows the shoreline of numerous lakes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My shelter, a trekking pole tent, on the right</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Camp on day two on the Finnmark Plateau. We pitched a little before Lesjavri, a large (13km long) frozen lake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>By far the best camp of that trip was day four. Dan Jones is pictured after a long day crossing the final part of the plateau. We descended back through the timberline and spent the night just off the shore of a lake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Looking back toward the higher ground of the plateau on the horizon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I camped near Crowden Towers on the skyline route. The Alpkit Soloist was the tent of choice as it’s lightweight and surprisingly sturdy. I’ve since sold it on as it has a very small porch area which I find restrictive when you are tent bound in poor weather.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Camped near Kinderlow end. I used the Lanshan 2, a very spacious trekking pole tent I bought second hand for the Arctic Circle Trail in 2023.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This was without doubt my favourite camp of 2024. I used the MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 1, which I reviewed for Outdoor Journal.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After dinner Dan and I spent most of the evening taking photographs. I think that is the Irish Sea on the horizon, far left.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tony Hobbs and his hound taking in the views near the Salt Cellar.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>We spent an age trying to find a level pitch. In the end we camped on a dry and flat Peat hag. This was the first night out in a newly acquired Terra Nova Southern Cross 1. Annoyingly our cat has since left claw holes in the inner tent!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A bright evening gave way to mist and rain in the evening and next morning.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through some idiocy I only managed to pack three tent pegs, so used rocks and trekking poles to secure my MSR Hubba Hubba Bikepack 1.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rune Gjeldnes and Torry Larsen reach Cape Discovery, Canada after 109 days on the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Rune Gjeldnes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gjeldnes and Larsen had to be careful not to injure themselves when manhandling these 150kg sleds over broken ice. Photo: Rune Gjeldnes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>First sight of the sun. Photo: Rune Gjeldnes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A small lead (section of open water). Photo: Rune Gjeldnes</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/hiking-books-for-christmas</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/keeping-a-trail-journal</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Past and present trail journals</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A brief journal entry from the Arctic Circle Trail, 2023</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Journal - Keeping a Trail Journal - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’ve readied a very basic daily overview to help prompt use of the journal</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/a-new-memoir-from-a-pioneer-of-adventure-travel</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Leo Le Bon in Greenland. Credit: Leo Le Bon</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/ice-walker</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-03</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Camp on a snow covered section of the lake</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Frozen methane bubbles trapped in the ice</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sunrise shines through an upright blade of ice</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Phil (left) and Ash in camp one evening</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Walking past mountains that line parts of the western shoreline</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Goofing around during a break from walking</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At the finish in Severobaikalsk</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.ashrouten.com/journal/a-crossing-of-lake-inari</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-26</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>A camp scene from our Finnmark trip in February 2024</image:caption>
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