Made in England by Gentlemen -

Our Brunton solar panel which has for past year kept me effortlessly powered up on my walking trips, has unfortunely developed a fault… We spent most of our rest day yesterday trying to get it working again, we even took it to a pissed up old car starter and alternator mechanic to test the power output at various points. In the end the solution we came up with (by accident) was to half roll it up and put a shoe on it! I don’t know why that works, but it does. Obviously not the most reliably solution, so we’re looking into somehow getting a new one out to us on route.

Cookie's Brunton Solar Panel

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We made it to our first town :) we’re now rested, re-supplied, drunk and ready for the next section to Silver City. Our solar panel is pretty much buggered, so we might have trouble keeping the blog updated until we can get a new one, but we’re working on it!
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I should probably explain for those who aren’t aware of mine and Paul fascination with views from our poos… These are genuine throne placements, we really did take a shit while looking at this exact view!

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Yeah it wasn’t actually that bad, I’ve seen greener water. We filtered it and it was fine. Impressive amount of cow shit around though, most turds I’ve ever seen in one place!

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There’s no running water out here in the desert, these things pump it from the water table and are our only source. We ran out of water about 10 miles before we hit this one, so were a bit parched when we arrived! Took advantage of the only tree for miles and miles and had a nice long break in the shade.
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Alongside the Big Hatchet Range, on the outlet of Thompson Canyon. Our man Sam had left us a couple of gallons of water here, and after 17 odd miles, we were too beat to carry on.
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And we’re off! With the Mexico border at our backs this, this is us starting our walk towards Canada :)
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