I’m fairly frowning down at my words this month in that wee photie. I must have been losing in the “Get your tent up first competition” when they took that one.
The words? This month’s is a strange one, I feels like it’s the best one I’ve done, but… I hit the points I wanted to [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by PTC*
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My arse. There is green visible through the window of the wee room where we’re having our tea breaks. It’s probably trees, it’s maybe some plastic sheeting over oil drums. It’s probably a good thing the window’s vandalised. It does lend an air of working in (not on) the film vesion of 1984 to our current contract [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by PTC*
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I’d got as far as the carpark the previous winter. At 1400hrs I stood there in my kevlar boots and Alpiniste pack and I knew that I’d be coming back in the dark, across snow covered bog and through trees, all on my own and I just couldn’t be arsed. It was my own fault for [...]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by PTC*
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Blog of the Week: PTC
PTC is a lightweight gear enthusiast hailing from the bonny land of Scotland. His blog has become a major inspiration for many people to go down the ‘ultra-lightweight’ route, and really challenge what they need to take with them on the hill. This has earned Pete (as he is known to non [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2008 by PTC*
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I was almost going to say nothing about this and let all our imaginations wander looking at the photie. The Optimus Double Cup.
Racers use dangly cups to drink from burns and lochs on the hoof. And this is the king of dangly cups. Will I ever use it? I don’t care, I just want to [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by PTC*
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The thing that had always stuck in my mind in the guidebooks is “boggy approach”. That had kind of put me off. There’s an element of it being a single peak too far from home to do in a day and not fall asleep at the wheel on the way home about it as well. [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by PTC*
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I was at Fast and Light’s HQ for lunch yesterday when these arrived (some months early), and while the kettle was being put on I wheeched one away for me.
The Prism 2.0 is an update to the Prism that Montane have had for a wee while now. But, it has a better cut, a better [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by PTC*
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We’re making plans for trips up north that’ll involve a little more oomph. One on the cards is a return to Knoydart, and that brought all this back. We did a quickie there last year to collect the check point from the AR World Champs that was attached to the trig point on Ladhar Beinn.
We [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by PTC*
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I spent the day at the Haglöfs shed of wonder yesterday having a look at what’s coming in 2009. Lots of good stuff is the answer to that, the usual top end gear and also some killer technical kit that won’t burst the bank. Environmental concerns are being addressed and colours created that will stretch the imagination. [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by PTC*
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Chocolate Fish are an independant UK web-only outfit who supply merino wool attire in many varieties. They’ve recently started producing their own brand of clothing called Taranaki. There are all the usual suspects in the product list, boxers, leggings, crew and zip necks and more. The quirk is that it’s New Zealand merino, made into stuff in a New [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by PTC*
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Good grief, is that the time. I’m now standing at the back of the log jam kicking it as hard as possible to get it through the gap. But I think I might just skip that, run along the top of it and deal with it all later.
Risky though, being trapped under a log jam [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by PTC*
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I haven’t been out on any kind of trip, local bimble or run, day trip or overnighter without using test kit since maybe October or November last year. This has had an interesting unforseen effect.
I used to really rely on certain bits of kit, be it a pair of boots, my Alpiniste 45+10, my favourite [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by PTC*
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