LIGHT CAMP GEAR
OUTFIT OF 11 POUNDS Old-time campers with memories of 401b packs will have some envious refiections when the National Camping and Hilcing Exhibition opens at the Imperial Institute, Kensington, London, on April 25. A complete gear, from tent to toothbrush, can now he put in a ruclcsack and the whole will turn the scale at less than 11 pounds. New and lighter tents are produeed every year. Steel for cooking utensils has given way to duralium and walking-sticks and tent poles are now carried as one. The 'Camping Club, by whom the exhibition is being organised, has been responsible ,*for many of the most important changes in camping practice. A quarter of a century ago cyclists only used tents in order to cheapen touring. Nowadays pedestrian campers predominate. Motoris-ts are also .strongly represented in the club, and this year a flying section is to he formed. River camping is expected to be a vogue next summer and several types of portable boaits will be on show.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 517, 28 April 1933, Page 3
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169LIGHT CAMP GEAR Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 517, 28 April 1933, Page 3
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