In this post we’ll concentrate on what to pack for personal gear, and how to pack it — including your tent. See this webpage for explanations of ‘the basics’, and ‘the essentials’.
Try packing your personal gear — tent, sleeping bag & ground mat — this way:
a.) If possible, stuff your sleeping bag in the one large piece of permitted luggage/duffel bag, inside ITS OWN water-proof sack.
b.) If it does not fit, be sure to store it in its own water-proof sack, secured against opening during transport.
c.) Do the same for your ground mat and tent.
d.) Be sure to identify each of the above items as belonging to you. An indelible marker with your name is probably easiest.
If you don’t have a personal tent, or cannot afford to buy or rent one, please ask a friend or relative to loan one to you.
If you still cannot acquire one, don’t worry: no one has ever been left out in the cold — or ‘turned away from the inn’.
(That’s part of what we mean by “no one makes pilgrimage alone”.)
In any event, make sure your tent is functional, BEFORE you come to pilgrimage. In other words, take it outside and test its functionality, by setting it up.
Each pilgrim is responsible to keep dry all his own gear — especially sleeping bag, tent & ground-mat — by wrapping such gear etc. in water-proof packing throughout the pilgrimage.
When it rains, it has been known to pour. [Check the forecast.]
See this webpage for explanations of ‘the basics’, or ‘essentials’.
In the next post, we’ll take up the question of what in food reserves to bring, and how to pack them.
Stay tuned.
For more information about gear, see the other FAQs on this blog, and the website.
Pilgrimage for Restoration
Come to restore. The rest will come.
26th annual – 2021 A.D.
Friday – Sunday
24-26 September
“Now is the acceptable time.”
Your friends staying home this year can make pilgrimage from afar, from home or parish: obtain a plenary indulgence, sponsor a pilgrim (or two), request prayers or offer them — all from this page.
Listen to and learn the Songs of Pilgrimage!
“No one makes pilgrimage alone.”
Oremus pro invicem.
In unione orationum.
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
