I have a list of luxury items . But firstly is my camp chair and table . Secondly my sleeping gear . Its my camp streacher and air mattress with a real pillow. Nothing worse than a crap nights sleep. There is five things of luxury. In my gear that are allways with me . Loved your first installment Amy. I have just returned from a week up at loch luna . Looking for a longer trip now . Safe paddles 🐢
Oh wow, a stretcher is next level, but hey, why not? I absolutely agree a good night's sleep is worth the pay-off of carrying extra gear! I use a zempire monstamat, which does NOT roll up small 😆. Sounds like your Loch Luna trip was a winner! You'll be tripping the whole river in no time! I've got 6 days off work starting Australia day, so heading out for my first long paddle in months... I cannot wait!
@@AmyOutdoors with the injuries i have a streacher is a must for a good sleep. Sleep eat paddle repeat . I will be out on the water too at that time safe paddling amy
Thanks mate! Yes, I still love my Luci Lantern. Actually I bought the other style of Luci Pro as well, because for filming the cool white light is a bit better. Cheers 👍
@@AmyOutdoors Yeah I think all their products are pretty good. We have the clear ones, not opaque like yours and can be bright but helps having the dimmer.
I love your luxuries because they are similar to mine ! I’m a south Australian but take my horses pack saddling in the flinders Rangers but mostly Kosciusko National Park or Victorian High Country! I take a real pillow cut down and have one of those lights plus the chair ! I don’t use my Trangia any more as I take my Jetboil but I didn’t realise you can get a gas kit for them ! Love the camp oven ! Really getting interested in kayaking the Murray! I have most of the good gear just need the boat 😂 Look forward to watching more of your channel 🤠
G'day Lisa, thanks for commenting! It's great kit, eh? Nothing beats a real pillow. I've tried all the versions of the hiking store pillows, but just take a pillow, cut it down and sew it up... perfect! Lots of folks are considering paddling the Murray now. I loved it... I reckon I'm up there for a "slowest paddle" award, lol... but it was exactly the way I wanted to see it. I reckon horseriding would be similar to canoeing... something else carries all your gear for you, so you can take those extra luxuries!
Great bit of luxury. The fry pan and camp/ Dutch oven at one time was standard and not luxury, but we live in a different world now I guess... I wish that they made a camp chair like that for us full grown folks, but I guess that's just the way it goes. Keep up the great work!
My chair, the Helinox Chair Two, is suitable up to 320lbs/145kg, which is about 30% more than all the other chairs I've looked at. Yep that cast ironware is great stuff, and so good I don't have to worry about the weight of it in my canoe!
when I did my first trip from border cliffs and down to paringa via chowilla creek my canoe weight was 195kg with me in it, think I may have to try and lose some of that weight. have been rewatching your 30 day ones to get ideas for from camp sites to packing and cooking. love what you are doing. ps still waiting for Echuca to Swan hill
Thanks mate, glad you can get some useful stuff from my videos 😊 lightweight and smaller is better in a canoe trip if you have to portage, but so long as you have enough freeboard to handle some rough water it doesn't really matter how much your gear weighs, so long as you're happy to tote it out of your canoe up to your camp each night 😉👍 The next MRX-series videos will be a while off yet - I'm taking a break from editing them while I edit some more recent trips in my new canoe and I'll also try to post this year's expedition before I get back to the MRX series... but I will pick it back up again eventually!
@@AmyOutdoors Thanks. And will be waiting for more as I started watching your videos back in early 2022 which got me to start doing it between health issues.
That's brilliant Ralph! I'm so pleased to hear you're able to get out there to enjoy the river as I do 💙 One of my next couple of videos is going to be out on Chowilla Creek just after the flood peak.... lots of mud 😳
Good video. My camper trailer is my major luxury item. Allows me to take lots more other luxuries with me as well. It's nice not to have to rough it all the time.
Awesome luxuries! That lamp looks amazing, I need to look into getting one for sure. I've always just used the knockoff Helinox chairs and done ok but in 2021 it will likely be time to get the real deal. The higher back on yours looks perfect! Thanks for sharing Amy🍻
Cheers Pete! The lamp is awesome - hasn't skipped a beat yet! I wasn't convinced that spending the extra money on a Helinox chair was a good idea until I was given one as a present - now if it ever does need replacing I'll replace it with another Helinox in a heartbeat - just so darn comfy, and they don't break like all the knock-off chairs I've owned. I'm looking forward to your series mate, how's the editing going?
@@AmyOutdoors its coming along! I'll be releasing the whole project as one documentary video with 5 chapters and I'm aiming for a mid February release. Taking so much longer than I thought!
Bannock! 🇨🇦😊 I always take a pillow too! What you guys call Camp Oven, we call them Dutch Ovens. I love them as well, especially if the trip allows. And chairs are gold for trips, although I've never taken a table. Luxuries make canoeing more enjoyable!
Haha, yep 🇨🇦🇦🇺... same same, but different! I've tried a bannock recipe from Maddy the Goose (on UA-cam) and it was great baked... not so awesome in a pan though to be honest.... but maybe I cooked it too fast 🤔 You guys seem to have so many predetermined camps that have bushcrafted tables, logs to sit on around the fire and fire pits, whereas we tend to have to find a good spot and call it a camp 😉... which means no readymade niceties... so a bring-your-own table is a pretty handy piece of kit! I love canoeing for so many reasons... and being able to bring comfy gear is certainly one of them!
@@AmyOutdoors There are so many variations in ingredients and cooking methods for bannock so it is hard to really know. True re camp furniture, but it is a hit or miss. I prefer not having anything, but will utilize it if it is available.
Great list of luxury items for canoe camping. You can definitely afford to take a few more comfort items when they’re not on your back! Looks like those bits of gear make for fantastic (and comfortable!) canoeing trips.
Awesome list! That was really good to check out. Completely jealous of the real pillow! I’m a big fan of the Trangia gas conversion kit too, I still have mine and take it with me when we do car camping or something. Bringing an actual skillet is something I haven’t thought about before but now just might. Thanks for keeping the chain going, haven’t checked out Joshs videos before but am now Cheers
The pillow was a game changer! I have to say I also did a little happy dance in the store when I realised that skillet was going to fit my trangia 😆 Josh is also thinking about paddling the length of the Murray, and may beat me to it if he still decides to launch in October... I wonder if he's started learning how to paddle yet 🤔
@@AmyOutdoors You paddle with your arms, right? 😉 Still lots of practising and training to be done between now and the launch date (whenever that may be).
Thanks for the tag and the insightful video! That pop-up light/charger is a thing of absolute beauty 😍 Currently scouring the internet for purchasing options. The Heysen Trail opens up again after April 30. I'll take a sticky beak at my luxury items before then, I feel most of them will either be technology-based or deep-fried and covered in cheese 😉
Looking forward to seeing what you've got... any changes from the Heysen to the Camino? I got that lantern from Snowys. Haha...schnitty has to be on the list! I'm planning a few weekends on the Heysen before the trail closes for the year... assuming camping becomes allowed in a few months 🤞
@@AmyOutdoors So many pack changes from the Heysen to the Camino. I trimmed about 13 kgs off the base weight. Very different daily necessities on a pilgrimage. Fingers crossed for the camping ban to be lifted, it looks like QLD will allow some camping soon.
I didn’t know helinox made a table!!! That makes me happy. 😁 You look fabulous! Love that color of blue! I don’t canoe, but if I did, I would carry a lot too. 😂
Aww shucks, thanks Tweety! I didn't know they made a table either until I received it as a Christmas present last year! Haha, my canoe load out is a lot more than my hiking load out... I feel smug every time I'm packing for a canoe trip, knowing how much extra comfort I can bring along 🤭
Hi Amy, We make the Ah Chair in Moruya. I'ts our luxury item. Check it out at www.ahchair.com.au I'd be very happy to send you one to try out if you like what you see. I think you would. Cheers Andrew
I have a list of luxury items .
But firstly is my camp chair and table . Secondly my sleeping gear . Its my camp streacher and air mattress with a real pillow.
Nothing worse than a crap nights sleep.
There is five things of luxury.
In my gear that are allways with me . Loved your first installment Amy. I have just returned from a week up at loch luna . Looking for a longer trip now . Safe paddles 🐢
Oh wow, a stretcher is next level, but hey, why not? I absolutely agree a good night's sleep is worth the pay-off of carrying extra gear! I use a zempire monstamat, which does NOT roll up small 😆. Sounds like your Loch Luna trip was a winner! You'll be tripping the whole river in no time! I've got 6 days off work starting Australia day, so heading out for my first long paddle in months... I cannot wait!
@@AmyOutdoors with the injuries i have a streacher is a must for a good sleep.
Sleep eat paddle repeat .
I will be out on the water too at that time safe paddling amy
The Luci lights are brilliant. We have had two for near 3 years and they're so versatile. Been loving your your videos, keep up the good work.
Thanks mate! Yes, I still love my Luci Lantern. Actually I bought the other style of Luci Pro as well, because for filming the cool white light is a bit better. Cheers 👍
@@AmyOutdoors Yeah I think all their products are pretty good. We have the clear ones, not opaque like yours and can be bright but helps having the dimmer.
I love your luxuries because they are similar to mine ! I’m a south Australian but take my horses pack saddling in the flinders Rangers but mostly Kosciusko National Park or Victorian High Country!
I take a real pillow cut down and have one of those lights plus the chair ! I don’t use my Trangia any more as I take my Jetboil but I didn’t realise you can get a gas kit for them ! Love the camp oven ! Really getting interested in kayaking the Murray! I have most of the good gear just need the boat 😂
Look forward to watching more of your channel 🤠
G'day Lisa, thanks for commenting! It's great kit, eh? Nothing beats a real pillow. I've tried all the versions of the hiking store pillows, but just take a pillow, cut it down and sew it up... perfect! Lots of folks are considering paddling the Murray now. I loved it... I reckon I'm up there for a "slowest paddle" award, lol... but it was exactly the way I wanted to see it. I reckon horseriding would be similar to canoeing... something else carries all your gear for you, so you can take those extra luxuries!
beautiful panoramas. The content is getting more successful.
I'm glad you think so, thanks!
Great bit of luxury. The fry pan and camp/ Dutch oven at one time was standard and not luxury, but we live in a different world now I guess... I wish that they made a camp chair like that for us full grown folks, but I guess that's just the way it goes. Keep up the great work!
My chair, the Helinox Chair Two, is suitable up to 320lbs/145kg, which is about 30% more than all the other chairs I've looked at.
Yep that cast ironware is great stuff, and so good I don't have to worry about the weight of it in my canoe!
@@AmyOutdoors That is way better then the others, but I weigh 395lbs/179kg so I'll have to use that as a goal in my weight loss... LOL!!!
when I did my first trip from border cliffs and down to paringa via chowilla creek my canoe weight was 195kg with me in it, think I may have to try and lose some of that weight. have been rewatching your 30 day ones to get ideas for from camp sites to packing and cooking. love what you are doing. ps still waiting for Echuca to Swan hill
Thanks mate, glad you can get some useful stuff from my videos 😊 lightweight and smaller is better in a canoe trip if you have to portage, but so long as you have enough freeboard to handle some rough water it doesn't really matter how much your gear weighs, so long as you're happy to tote it out of your canoe up to your camp each night 😉👍 The next MRX-series videos will be a while off yet - I'm taking a break from editing them while I edit some more recent trips in my new canoe and I'll also try to post this year's expedition before I get back to the MRX series... but I will pick it back up again eventually!
@@AmyOutdoors Thanks. And will be waiting for more as I started watching your videos back in early 2022 which got me to start doing it between health issues.
That's brilliant Ralph! I'm so pleased to hear you're able to get out there to enjoy the river as I do 💙
One of my next couple of videos is going to be out on Chowilla Creek just after the flood peak.... lots of mud 😳
Good video. My camper trailer is my major luxury item. Allows me to take lots more other luxuries with me as well. It's nice not to have to rough it all the time.
I love a good car camping trip too, for sure!
Awesome luxuries! That lamp looks amazing, I need to look into getting one for sure. I've always just used the knockoff Helinox chairs and done ok but in 2021 it will likely be time to get the real deal. The higher back on yours looks perfect! Thanks for sharing Amy🍻
Cheers Pete! The lamp is awesome - hasn't skipped a beat yet! I wasn't convinced that spending the extra money on a Helinox chair was a good idea until I was given one as a present - now if it ever does need replacing I'll replace it with another Helinox in a heartbeat - just so darn comfy, and they don't break like all the knock-off chairs I've owned. I'm looking forward to your series mate, how's the editing going?
@@AmyOutdoors its coming along! I'll be releasing the whole project as one documentary video with 5 chapters and I'm aiming for a mid February release. Taking so much longer than I thought!
Bannock! 🇨🇦😊 I always take a pillow too! What you guys call Camp Oven, we call them Dutch Ovens. I love them as well, especially if the trip allows. And chairs are gold for trips, although I've never taken a table. Luxuries make canoeing more enjoyable!
Haha, yep 🇨🇦🇦🇺... same same, but different! I've tried a bannock recipe from Maddy the Goose (on UA-cam) and it was great baked... not so awesome in a pan though to be honest.... but maybe I cooked it too fast 🤔
You guys seem to have so many predetermined camps that have bushcrafted tables, logs to sit on around the fire and fire pits, whereas we tend to have to find a good spot and call it a camp 😉... which means no readymade niceties... so a bring-your-own table is a pretty handy piece of kit!
I love canoeing for so many reasons... and being able to bring comfy gear is certainly one of them!
@@AmyOutdoors There are so many variations in ingredients and cooking methods for bannock so it is hard to really know. True re camp furniture, but it is a hit or miss. I prefer not having anything, but will utilize it if it is available.
Great list of luxury items for canoe camping. You can definitely afford to take a few more comfort items when they’re not on your back! Looks like those bits of gear make for fantastic (and comfortable!) canoeing trips.
Thanks, and yes... the luxuries definitely make time at camp more enjoyable!
Awesome list! That was really good to check out. Completely jealous of the real pillow!
I’m a big fan of the Trangia gas conversion kit too, I still have mine and take it with me when we do car camping or something. Bringing an actual skillet is something I haven’t thought about before but now just might.
Thanks for keeping the chain going, haven’t checked out Joshs videos before but am now
Cheers
The pillow was a game changer!
I have to say I also did a little happy dance in the store when I realised that skillet was going to fit my trangia 😆
Josh is also thinking about paddling the length of the Murray, and may beat me to it if he still decides to launch in October... I wonder if he's started learning how to paddle yet 🤔
@@AmyOutdoors You paddle with your arms, right? 😉 Still lots of practising and training to be done between now and the launch date (whenever that may be).
@@TrekkingWest haha... you got it! You're good to go then! Fingers crossed were not locked down for the whole next 6 months
@@AmyOutdoors 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Thanks for the tag and the insightful video! That pop-up light/charger is a thing of absolute beauty 😍 Currently scouring the internet for purchasing options. The Heysen Trail opens up again after April 30. I'll take a sticky beak at my luxury items before then, I feel most of them will either be technology-based or deep-fried and covered in cheese 😉
Looking forward to seeing what you've got... any changes from the Heysen to the Camino?
I got that lantern from Snowys. Haha...schnitty has to be on the list! I'm planning a few weekends on the Heysen before the trail closes for the year... assuming camping becomes allowed in a few months 🤞
@@AmyOutdoors So many pack changes from the Heysen to the Camino. I trimmed about 13 kgs off the base weight. Very different daily necessities on a pilgrimage. Fingers crossed for the camping ban to be lifted, it looks like QLD will allow some camping soon.
Some great gadgets there Amy!!! I love the mini camp oven. I might have to keep an eye out for one.
Cheers Dan 👍 definitely worth a try!
Love your vids. Gave me some good ideas. I see you're a double-blader; love that when I'm solo.
I learnt paddling in a kayak, and a double-blade is hard to give up!
I love your chair... that looks pretty cool!
Looking forward to your full gear review video.
I wonder if Josh will say his luxury item is a schnitzel!
👍 I'll get around to that full gear review one day soon!
I reckon you've called it early on the schnitzels... too true 😆
I didn’t know helinox made a table!!! That makes me happy. 😁 You look fabulous! Love that color of blue! I don’t canoe, but if I did, I would carry a lot too. 😂
Aww shucks, thanks Tweety! I didn't know they made a table either until I received it as a Christmas present last year! Haha, my canoe load out is a lot more than my hiking load out... I feel smug every time I'm packing for a canoe trip, knowing how much extra comfort I can bring along 🤭
Hi Amy, We make the Ah Chair in Moruya. I'ts our luxury item. Check it out at www.ahchair.com.au I'd be very happy to send you one to try out if you like what you see. I think you would. Cheers Andrew
Hi Andrew. I saw Aussie Hiker's review of the chair, and had a look on your website... it looks like a good option.
@@AmyOutdoors Thanks Amy