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Walking and sugars

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Eeek, just checked and it was in fact pounds, not kilos! Yes, they'll be using sporks, only 1 change of dry clothes (no luxuries such as PJs!), and I'm hoping a "reasonable adjustment" can be made so that some of his hypo supplies (heavy stuff like lucozade) can be left with staff so he only carries one day's worth at a time. Water is going to add a lot to the weight (the assessed expedition is likely to be June next year so hot weather means more water to carry). No towel because they won't bother washing! 😉. Might pack a few baby wipes!!!
 
Worth thinking how he is going to clean his finger before testing. (I don't have a lightweight answer, but someone might have!)
 
Worth thinking how he is going to clean his finger before testing. (I don't have a lightweight answer, but someone might have!)

Wet wipes! They don't weigh much, just add to the bulk and create more rubbish to carry. We used to use Diabetezy finger wipes, which are tiny, but found they dried out too quickly before using them all up.
 
I rarely bother to wash my finger before finger prick testing when out in the hills, often for 2 or 3 days and night. Sometimes finger is clean because my hands are wet due to having just had to use hands to extract myself from a stream / burn / bog / marsh on mountain marathon. Then the issue is removing water, so I usually shake hand then blow on finger. Quick and environmentally friendly, as no waste produced. On summer evenings, standing in a stream to wash feet, hands, groin etc is cold, but a rare pleasure in our world of hot showers in bathrooms. Obviously no detergent to pollute watercourse. For washing cooking & eating kit, take water from upstream of body washing location, downstream of drinking water collection point, and dispose of soapy water into toilet or into ground at least 50m from watercourse.

I'll be a volunteer marshal on Dragon's Back Race in Wales [Conwy to Brecon Beacons] June 2015, and based on experiences in Sept 2012, I know that there'll be 1 or 2 nights at Conwy youth hostel, then 1 night in farmer's field with access to stream, 1 night at a campsite with shower block, 3rd night is mystery, as location is different in 2015, 4th night at camping field with lovely shallow river for sitting in, 5th night camping in a farmer's field below a castle and banqueting hall, so access to toilets with hot & cold tap water.

Overnight campsites used by D of E expedition groups nearly always have access to a stream for washing or at least a standing tap, if not a washblock. If relying on chemical toilets, some have water, soap and paper towels [and / or toilet paper] which is OK. Alcohol hand wash is less helpful.
 
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