People are people. If you’re a person, you’ll know what people can be like, what they might do, how they’ll react and you’ll know something of their strengths and shortcomings. By the time you’re working and making decisions and plans in that job you should have a wide human experience to draw on to make your choices [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by PTC*
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Three grown men in the woods (the headtorches from left to right are Bobinson, Das, Me) at 320m, sitting out of the rain and eating Banoffee Pie.
I’m starting to forget what the hills look like in daylight. I’ll tell you though, it was bloody cold tonight. I know because my thumbs went numb, it’s my [...]
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by PTC*
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I had a quick dash into the hills this afternoon to get some gear photies. Part of my get-up were the mesh-uppered Montrail Streaks (brilliant shoes, I’ll do an update soon. Ish).
I’m striding uphill and I had the unexpected and strangest, yet so familiar sensation of cold water rushing into my shoe when I was crossing some [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by PTC*
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I was rummaging around at my folks house at the weekend and I think I may have found the source of my obsession with orange kit.
It was subliminal suggestion by the evil Palitoy mega corporation.
He’s got ten point crampons, a frighteningly long ice axe (or railway track laying/agricultural tool), a Whillans Alpiniste pack with helmet and [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by PTC*
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Before OMM we had KIMMlite, the name reflecting the sponsorship of the race by Karrimor. Luckily a parting of the ways led to the name change to OMM and Karrimor’s descent into the abyss of selling piss poor gear from Sports World didn’t damn the brand by association.
I’ve got a few KIMMlite pieces, some Kamleika clothing [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by PTC*
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He had no plan other than taking the shortest distance to the fence.
It was just before lights out, the snow had stopped and the atmosphere was as relaxed as it’s possible to get when you have no laces in your shoes and everyone on the other team has live ammuntion and a casual attitude to [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by PTC*
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I was in the kitchen and decided to weigh with my nice new scales what was to hand and what ever was hanging on the pulley round the corner.
The scales are Ultraship 35’s from MyWeigh in a cheap looking silver finish and with Dalek’s-eye blue LCD display. It’s the same set I’ve borrowed on numerous accasions and [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2009 by PTC*
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It feels like winter’s been here forever, but it’s still not been long enough to get all the stuff done that I’d wanted to. I hope the snow’s here for a bit yet.
I am now officially a geek. I have here a new set of digital scales, fresh from rattling about the back of a courier [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by PTC*
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Had a wander in the Kilpatricks with Bobinson, 14K of torchlit tracks and open hillside. Fun as always, even though the plot was to test some kit, that soon got forgotten and we just got on with the simple joy of one foot in front of the other on a deserted hill.
I was supposed to [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’m always banging on about down vests as being the miracle component in your Airfix kit of outdoor joy, but in rainy, damp weather they can be vulnerable and if you do get it wet it’s not drying out again until long after you’re home. So synthetic filled kit sticks it’s hand up and waves [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by PTC*
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I think they’ve made the instructions for disabled parking excessively difficult.
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by PTC*
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When this arrived for test I was in the middle of doing a vintage style heating installation, so the Sabretooth spent it’s first couple of weeks with me crawling under floors and fending off the attentions of tools, pipe & fittings and splintered Victorian woodwork (I think we got away with that last bit…). It came [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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