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Real Coffee Makers for Camping

When you’re camping, wild or in a campsite; you can’t beat real coffee in the morning. Nothing surprises wild camping companions than the smell of a real cup of coffee wafting from your tent. You can choose to share, but it depends how generous they were with the single malt last night. Lets get this

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New Kit from Montane and Mammut

Montane are releasing a cool looking Allez Micro Hoodie for Women as part of their new VIA™ Trail series of mountain trail running gear. It’s made from Polartec® Power Grid™ fabric and is designed with world class trail runners, epitomising Montane’s core ethos of ‘lightweight yet functional’. The Polartec® Power Grid™ fabric used in the Allez Micro Hoodie

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True Mountain – First Look

The wonderful guys and gals at True Mountain have sent us some of their kit to try out. So here’s a first look at the kit, before we really put them through their paces in the Welsh winter hills over the coming month! True Mountain are a new company that produce all their kit here

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New Extremeties Kit for 2015

Extremities have just launched some funky new kit for 2015. Thier Performance Baselayers are made from extra fine Australian Merino wool and are available in both men’s and women’s styles as well as zip necks, long or short sleeves and even long johns. We don’t think they’d look so fetching on us, so here are

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DrCoolWraps

We all suffer a sport/activity injury every once in a while, be it a bump, bruise or sprain, and when it happens we often resort to compression as a solution. And why not? It offers reduced pain, reduced swelling and reduced recovery time. Add to this a period of cold therapy; say the application of

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Astronaut Ice Cream Review

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

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KT Tape

KT Tape If you’re a sports fan you must of seen the recent appearance of coloured tape on some of your favourite athletes? These are Kinesiology tapes, but have you ever wondered what it’s all about? Pro Athletes using Kinesiology Tape Kinesiology tape was invented by Dr Kenzo Kase, a Japaneese chyropracter almost 30 years

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Hothands Review

I’ve never been one for using these myself as I tend to run warm. So when we got our hands on a couple of these to review, and night time astrophotography being a blossoming new interest, we could finally see some use for them. First and foremost, I’m a firm believer in taking kit that’s

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Osprey Cyber Port Pack Review

As a response to our fast changing mobile lifestyles the well established back pack makers Osprey have launched the Portal series. The series includes a myriad of pack solutions, including the Cyber, Cyber Port, Pixel, Pixel Port, Beta and Beta Port. As you can gather from the blog headline we’ll be taking a closer look at

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Portals to the future

  Osprey Cyber Port As a response to our fast changing mobile lifestyles the well established back pack makers Osprey have launched the Portal series. The series includes a myriad of pack solutions, including the Cyber, Cyber Port, Pixel, Pixel Port, Beta and Beta Port. As you can gather from the blog headline we’ll be

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