the hub In the world of multi-day trips in the great outdoors, one of the biggest decisions you need to make is around how you are going to sleep. This involves some weighty consideration around relative comfort, weight, pack size, budget, weather and even flexibility. Between multi-day adventures on foot or by bike I’ve slept in just about every option: huts (can be full, or old and gross), bivy bags (ever had that buried alive nightmare?), snow shelves (draughty), tarps (hello mosquitos), fly only tent setups (still here, mosquitoes?), snow caves (shouldn’t have built it under a helipad), piles of hay next to a station, plush hotels, rank hotels, hostels and of course – a variety of tents.
When it comes to bikepacking, or multi-day bike trips in an era…