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The kit we see on here is normally sporadic in its appearance, but the last couple of weeks have seen courier vans blocking in the neighbours cars much more frequently. This is what happens when a [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by PTC*
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Now at the start I may have been a little cynical as you can see above. It’s easy to knock anything that has a cult following, and Páramo does have its zealot disciples which does its cause no good at all.
I was coming to it fresh and landed lucky with this brand new Velez. The minutae of [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2008 by PTC*
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The Reactor is a great wee pack. Its been with me on the bike on most rides since it appeared and over the Kilpatricks on trail runs and bimbles so many times it knows the way home on it’s own.
The fit on my back and stable carry are good enough that any wee niggles are put [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by PTC*
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It’s dark. The rain is incessant as the wind throws it against the window with unlimited zeal.
I’ve been inside all day and the clock has ticked slowly. Nature has a way of making you endure the bad times by dragging them out and then making the good times flash by in a memory stretching blur.
It’s [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by PTC*
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The Glen Lyon Horseshoe is probably better known for the arsehole landowner at its foot than its peaks. But it’s a lovely place, the walking is good and it catches and holds snow. Driving over the pass by the Ben Lawers visitor centre can be a gamble in winter as the descent into Glen Lyon [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by PTC*
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There’s activity despite this weather. Down in the Lakes the OMM is still on, despite 17 feet of rain yesterday. I know a lot of folk down there right now and I can only wish that The Rage of The Titans fuels their blades for the next couple of days.
Also, on the road North right [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by PTC*
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No it’s not a 99g sleeping bag (yet), it’s a new feature on their website which might be even better than the Design Your Own Mortgage Sleeping Bag feature, it’s ”GearAdviser“. I’ve been playing with it for a while and made up shopping lists for climbing Denali, Mt Vinson and walking to the North Pole.
Apart from [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by PTC*
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I love the anatomical drawings of Andreas Vesalius. It’s the humanity attached by simply using a pose or the briefest hint of a facial expression.
They were a tool, a study aid, an accurate explantion of the unknown or the assumed, but they’re much more esoteric than that to my modern (ish) eyes. This one has pathos, a deep sadness and desparate despair, and also [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by PTC*
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My plans turned out to be the sponge at the bottom of the trifle that was this weekend. Originally a free standing independant force, soon trapped by liquid poured from above. The callout to fix a boiler yesterday is probably the layer of custard over the jelly, but we won’t dwell on the detail of [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by PTC*
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No matter how hard she tried, Holly couldn’t get the water to soak into the fabric on Alpkit’s Jeanius jeans…”Pah!” she said.
And she’s not wrong. Cotton they may be, but the Epic treatment makes them something else, a new form of life, a xeno-pant, a mutant hybrid if you will.
Epic is very good, I’ve used [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2008 by PTC*
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These gave me a dilemma. I knew that they were really just Montrail Namches with a Gore-Tex liner, which is a good thing. But in the past Montrail had made the Gore lined Stratos and the Cirrus models which, as comfy as they were must have been among the most returned retail items ever produced. [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by PTC*
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