It’s brown, so we’re off to a good start. The Páramo Explorer Pull-on is a general cool weather cutting about outdoors piece. It’s comfy, it doesn’t feel heavy on (it’s listed at 455g), and I like the pre-war polar explorer aesthetics of it. It’s got a nice long body so it sits well with a [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by PTC*
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I’ve stuck on a thing just to our the right there, three headings down in the middle column. If you’ve got any supplemental info on the kit covered on here, something to say or ask not directly related to a post, or any kind of bollocks that we should know and I’ve missed, stick it on [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by PTC*
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We went to Glen Coe for a galavant. It’s nice to just look up sometimes without scanning for a route or a flat spot for a tent. Somehow it make the hills look bigger, that bit more impressive and inaccessible. Especially standing there in skate shoes. Lunch in the cafe was both fine and the second [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by PTC*
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Perhaps a Flying V is an odd birthday present for a one year old girl, but not my girl. It’ll be arms out and legs kicking with excitment when Holly sees this. She loves plucking the strings one at a time while I hold a chord. And none of your plinky plonky nonsense, she wants overdrive [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by PTC*
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Going to trail shoes meant that footwear started to fit me and I didn’t need a fat sock to take the slack or fill in the gaps. I still wear fat socks in winter, more for warmth that cushioning these days, but we’ll come back to that. The sock drawer was rebuilt from scratch, and [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by PTC*
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I like this months column better. There’s a bit of banter in there as well as facts. The Laurel and Hardy reference isn’t just me shoe-horning in analogies (again). When I was on the West Highland Way a few months back, I was regularly passing folk who did have that very aesthetic. What struck me was that [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2008 by PTC*
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My head’s been under the bonnet. But it’s all back to normal and ticking over nicely. Bigbananafeet, whose name regular listeners will recognise, has just been in comms. He started South on the West Highland Way from Ft Bill at 1700 on Sunday. He’s encountered storms, contstant rain and his feet are in tatters. As [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by PTC*
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We sat outside MJ’s at a table in the sunshine with our usual. They know us now, the Eggs Brothers: Benedict and Royale. It’s a little step outside of the rest of the day. Reality swirls quietly away at a distance of about 6 feet from the table, always. Plans are made, rights are dismissed [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by PTC*
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I had a call from Cotswold Outdoor tonight. They weren’t interested in my day, or how Holly is doing or how Joyce is doing at work. No, they wanted the cold hard facts of my opinion of their catalogue, how I rated their product knowledge, how much I liked their website and where I bought stuff, and [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by PTC*
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I wrote this post on the 10th of January this year, and I can finally stick it up as Mountain King have gone public here. After six months use the skinny poles survived the abuse of many trail miles, the accidental application of my full body weight, being lobbed over scrambling sections and having some mild curvature [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by PTC*
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The rain came down in abundance so I was out the door and up the hill in a flash to get a wee shot of the Velez AL. The wee flash of green at the neck there above is a Páramo Cambia t-shirt, I thought it would be best to try the whole lot at [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by PTC*
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