How’s about this for confidence in your product? Luis Brown, an Envornmental Consultant at Nikwax demonstrated this by floating across a lake in East Sussex with a Nixwax Hydrophobic Down™ filled sleeping bag. They demonstrated that it’s a high performing hydrophobic solutiuon as well as also being an environmentally friendly one. Nikwax do however stress that this isn’t …
This is as gimmicky a product as you can get we reckon, but good for a laugh on a wild camp at least so we took the punt and gave it a taste test on last weekend’s wild camp. Astronaut Ice cream is apparently real freeze dried ice cream that you simply eat as is …
Here’s part 4 of our A-Z of hill walking, with a distinctly Snowdonian feel. S is for Scotch Egg – the food of kings. Any food that rolls has to be fine in my book. The appeal is one third greasy meat, one third egg and one third adrenaline rush that at any moment, your food …
Here’s part 3 of our A-Z of hill walking, with a distinctly Snowdonian, and ranty, feel. M is for Mount. What should only precede Snowdon if you’re an estate agent or a tourist. The ‘don’ part of Snowdon also means ‘mountain’, so adding ‘mount’ to the name is rather redundant. Those familiar with the Lake …
Here’s part 2 of our A-Z of hill walking, with a distinctly Snowdonian feel. G is for Gaiters. For many years only available in Red, now seen in a multitude of hues. However, the red versions have been scientifically proven to be indestructible, with probably 70 out of every 93 produced in the 70s still …
Here’s part 1 of our A-Z of hill walking, with a distinctly Snowdonian feel. A – is for Aglet. Whether you’ve heard of them before, you’ve probably got one, or probably as many as four at once, but probably lost a few on your travels. I’ve lost mine and now my ends dangle on the …
Whilst browsing eBay recently for something on which to waste my hard earned pennies, I came across ‘tent like’ survival shelters. Being of a curious nature, I would have to see what these were like and perhaps how they compared to other emergency options. So we decided to see just how useful some of these bits of …
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There’s only one ‘tache that still cuts it, and that’s got to be Tom Selleck. While other lesser men who’ve tried it have just looked like throwbacks to the 70s, he’s managed to carry it off with his timeless ‘tache. He really is the ‘tache god. There are still some arguments about the Merv Hughes, but …
The GoGo Ex is the VW camper vans of tents. You may be able to get something larger, lighter and more modern but not anywhere near as cool or quirky. Lets start with the down sides. This is not a tent, but rather a huge bivvy. There’s not a lot of space inside and you …
You may or may not have noticed that there’s currently a 4×4 perched just below the summit of Snowdon. It appears that someone managed to drive it up, somehow turned around and after that manouver managed to get stuck on the descent. Now I would have paid money to have seen the reaction at that …
Is it just me who thinks this will end up as firewood inside the Summit Shelter (see below)?? Wouldn’t fancy kipping in this overnight, but can’t be any worse than a night spent last March in a Foel Grach Shelter buried in snow!
