After I’ve been struggling to motivate myself for work I’ve decided to set an end to this, make better use of my time and rather than drowning myself in guilt and pity go hiking instead. You’ll find me on Sörmlandsleden the coming weeks. Plan is to do all the 600km of the main track. We’ll see how it goes.
Need to get past Södertälje today. Not my favorite stretch. Thus I’m treating myself with a burger at my favorite place.
The burger was fantastic. As always.
Lucky me, not completely unexpected, found a power outlet to remedy my situation. Sort of.
Another beautiful camp spot, took another bird bath and washed my clothes.
Sent home almost half a kilo (420g) of stuff that I don’t need.
Somehow it’s always like that, I tend to overpack for no good reason despite being oh so weight conscious. And then on trail I notice every unnecessary gram.
Omg, got it back *mwah*
Lost it at the campground when I left my power bank to charge.
But then I plugged in the power bank with the wrong port and now it didn’t charge at all 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Would have been too nice. I hate this new power bank!
The spot with a beautiful view on the lake, but awfully exposed and it’s gusts of 10m/s right now, or the sheltered one next to the outhouse? 🤷♂️
That spot (the latter) is also heavily infested by ants 🐜
All hail to hammocks!
One of my favorite places on trail, the bogs around Hälleforsnäs.
Today was mostly just clear cuts. 30km of devastation. The dark side of Sweden.
@PaddelBanditen well, I might be doing it some injustice. But fwiiw it’s the new Flextail 10.000 mAh.
Downloaded the manual now and I understand it a bit better. It has two modes for charging. Fast and slow. I tried activating the slow mode but instead activated fast mode. I’ll give it another try now but things look more promising.
@Shi omg, what a nightmare! Things that happen, but shouldn’t.
The second night on this trip I forgot the suspension straps to my hammock on the trees. Luckily I noticed (magically) just after half an hour of hiking.
When you use power banks on the trail you have to charge just enough.
While your phone is plugged into the power bank your phone runs at full power thinking it has unlimited wall power. If you plug your phone into your bank and leave it overnight your phone will suck down the power all night long.
I charge my phone starting at dinner time to about %85-95 then unplug it. I may read or watch a movie then I turn it off until morning.
@HikerGeek this was never a problem with my old power bank though 🤷♂️
Also typically, since it’s an iPhone it stops charging at 80%. But this didn’t happen that time either.
So yeah, guess I’ll have to be more on my tiptoes from now on.
Although everything now takes a USB-C plug to charge, the charging chips vary now both on the charger side and device side. That is still kind of a mess. If your old bank had a USB-A port and this one has a USB-C port that might explain the issue. The newer USB-C is "smarter" and can deliver higher current which might mean faster draining
I'm a Android use so forgive me for not knowing this but iPhones only charge to %80? I had an iPhone a long time ago for work and it charged to %100
You might want to try a USB-C charge only cable.
I also have to charge my InReach which is Micro-USB. I carry, for my old banks, a USB-A to multi 6 inch cable (Lightning, Micro-USB and USB-C heads)
There are ones for USB-C banks. I haven't used this one. More for example. But one of the USB-C heads is charge only. Might fix your issue. It does not say iPhone compatible though.
I like the very short cable. Less tangle and lighter.
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