The Haglöfs LIM 45 was back in action. The hipbelt is a marvel, but the shoulder straps were out of adjustment because a pal had been using it. Velcro is very hard to put back where it was before, but I’m just about there now. My version 3.0 OMM chest pouch (more of that later) [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by PTC*
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Kev was right, go the other way.
I’m not going to talk about the A82, I don’t want to look back on this in times to come an just read about how close I kept coming to having a stroke behind the wheel. Let’s just say the journey north was harrowing and leave it at that. [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’m wandering around in this bloody heat wearing steel toe-capped boots, canvas troosers with kneepads in them and pockets full of tools, a black t-shirt and a beard. There’s a red light flashing in the control room along with a howling siren and the message coming through is “System overload, prepare to abandon body”. That’s very [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2009 by PTC*
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I had a 3-season synthetic sleeping bag review in the June issue, they’re not up on LFTO yet, I’ll post a link when they appear.
That was interesting to do, and quite difficult as they were often huge, and indeed sometimes rubbish. But there were some gems in there and the winner from Mountain Hardwear was [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by PTC*
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Since the Featherlite came in for test a few months back, I haven’t left the hoose without it in my my pack.
It’s dead simple. A smock with a zip, high-ish collar, elastic cuffs and hem and cut from a great fabric. I had one of the original versions with the black lycra cuffs and hem and although [...]
Posted on June 21st, 2009 by PTC*
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Yes, yes, I’ve seen them! Stop it with the emails already…
I saw the samples of the new range a few months back down at OMM’s secret Lakeland bunker (Mike Parsons modelling the smock below) and it’s killer stuff. The new Gelanots fabric has a closer knit outer to absorb less water and has an inner coating [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by PTC*
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When I was in Kintail a few weeks back with Tim & Co, I was impressed by some of the kit he was using. He’d picked out some of Marmot’s lightweight kit at their UK HQ on the way up to fit in with the theme of the trip and it caused me to raise [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’ve had a couple of shots with Haglöfs ACE L pack that’s in for test, and I must confess I’m awfy impressed.
It sits low on my back which suits being on the bike and makes the bottle pockets super-accessible, the hipbelt is stable, comfy and has big zipped pockets. The shoulder harness is low profile and [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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It’s too big a gap. I hadn’t been up Ben Lomond since the winter, and that’s just not right. So a school-night quickie was in order.
Available personnel was limited to myself and Ange. Poor Ange, as anyone who’s been with me on my home hills will know, I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of “interesting” local [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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What was the dry weight of my current favourite Chicken Tikka 800Kcal main meal?
It was 130g
Thanks for all the entries, and thanks for all of the kind messages attached, bless all of you good peaple out there.
Our winner (picked by Holly with a little coercion, involving witholding Peppa Pig) is Jeremy Taylor who will be sticking [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’ve been having a rummage and it’s time for a change. After the unrequired pyrotechnics with my Optimus Crux Lite during the week I’m going back to the Markill Peak Ignition. It’s a great wee stove, and the ignition still works so I’ll ditch the firesteel for a while and carry a wee plastic packet of matches [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2009 by PTC*
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Big Agnes tents are like a lucky charm for me, every time I want to get one out and properly test it in some foul weather, blue skies break out all over. However the Copper Spur UL1 got taken by surprise and after a few local adventures, I pitched it at 1000m on the top of Beinn an [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2009 by PTC*
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