Micro Aventure & GreenroomVoice

Loaded backpacks, grey shorts, thick socks and heavy boots. Technical jackets over big jumpers, mostly over 50 years old, those men and women were into some serious hiking. It was not even 8 am, I had just finished the last posture of my morning yoga routine and I already saw six of those walkers passing by on the beach. La Compostella. Some people feel they have to do it. Something is calling them to do that endless walk towards Saint Jacques de Compostelle. Looking at their shadow vanishing in the distance, I was wondering how much dry wood I could collect to get a good fire going. My toes were getting cold in the wet sand. In April, chilly mornings are not unusual on the coast of Cantabria, and this morning was no different. When I got back to our base camp, Moritz aka “Mo” from Jeckybeng, had a camping stove in hands.

“I’m going to make some coffee, can you get me the gas cartridge?”

Nine centimeters wide, that’s exactly the size of the can I got for him from the supermarket. Next thing I knew the stove was doing a weird noise and some liquid gas seemed to leak out on the side. Leaking propane mix….How scary can that be? I told Mo not to play around the van too much with the thing. Looking more closely, it seemed like he had missed the correct spot to pierce by a few millimeters. I was going to try myself for the second hit, but I though Mo was more experienced. It was his own stove after all.

I remembered the “Go shit in the woods” baseline he had printed on his tee thinking, “is that guy really a camper or what?” Mo came back a minute later, no more weird noise but no flame either. He looked so sorry. He had missed the target again. The third attempt was the most dramatic one as there were too many holes in the can to get enough pressure out in the burner. Mo decided to remove the stove from the canister and let the gas mix run out freely. As the liquid was quickly evaporating on the top of the blue can, Mo asked:

“Is that bad for the environment?”

Here we where, almost alone by the beach, a foggy morning of April, in Northen Spain with a bag of amazing grounded columbian coffee Mo had brought from Germany for the occasion, but with no way to use it. That’s when Mo decided to stride across the parking lot to get three coffees from the little bar nearby. An older guy was having breakfast on his own, sitting outside on some rustic plastic chairs. The old women inside had only one tooth left but she could operate her coffee machine with ease. No cappuccino here, only “cafe solo” or “cafe con leche”. A strong beverage that I had to mix with about two cups of soy milk in order to drink it.

We were on the road for good and it’s all that mattered. In the van we had a bunch of urban outdoor jackets stored under the bed, some more tees and a few other things that we would need to wear to make sure they could be useful and good looking on average weekenders like us, on any mission. My son Lugh never looked so happy. We were camping!! The surf was tiny but on the rise, just enough to stoke our surf dog!!

Each and every product will be evaluated by GreenroomVoice and the results will be available on greenroomvoice.com and on Jeckybeng.com.

Thanks to Moritz Lorentz designer, photographer, blogger, founder of Jeyckybeng, Stefan Weckert & Simone Tiemann from Kun Tiqi and our dear partners : #Patagonia (wetsuit) #Vaude (tent & sleeping bag) #Salewa (jackets) #Elkline (tees) #EarthSUP (SUP board) #Mammut (tees) #wearezrcl (tee) #Pyua (jackets) #Owl (pouches)

Text by Stéphane ROBIN, photos Stéphane ROBIN and Cira RIEDEL(7) & Moritz Lorenz (14)

About GreenroomVoice:

GreenroomVoice is a team of experts in sustainability within the outdoor industry. We help others to understand the “so called eco friendly” products better, what makes them less harmful, how were they made, what is the social impact and finally how do they compare to other products.

On this Project GreenroomVoice teamed up with Moritz Lorentz founder of Jeckybeng, an urban outdoor blog from bavaria for awesome stuff to venture out.

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