Arriving at Alan Kimber’s Calluna, home of the West Coast Mountain Guides http://www.westcoast-mountainguides.co.uk climbing centre in Fort William on 19th February 2005 the first thing I noticed was that the place, in contrast to my last visit on Dec 4th of 2004, was buzzing with activity. The car […]
Gelert Stealth 30 Rucksac from the 2011 Beyond range The Stealth 30L rucksack from Gelert is part of their 2011 Beyond range, and is positioned as a lightweight, technical bag, geared up for walking and scrambling. At 0.85k that sounds great, but how will it do in our […]
Storm have been making products to help regenerate outdoors gear for many years. We tested out their ‘wash in waterproofer’ and ‘wash in antibacterial cleaner’ to see whether they made much difference to some of our well used (and starting to look a bit tired) pieces of kit. […]
Gelert Oxygen 35 Rucksac from the 2011 Beyond range We’ve been lucky in having a sneak preview of Gelert’s new Oxygen 35 rucksack ahead of the launch of their inspiring new 2011 ‘Beyond’ range. The Oxygen 35 is positioned as a technical, lightweight rucksack and features include a […]
The World Bog Snorkelling Championship attracts competitors from all over the world and has now been running for over 20 years. The championships take place in a bog on the outskirts of Llanwrtyd Wells on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Two trenches, each 60 yards long have been […]
After months of waiting impatiently for Tough Guy to come around and months of running through the local parks trying to clock up the miles, the three of us (Andy Caird, Steve Harris and myself Tristan Bawn) were finally in the car park preparing to start the race. […]
Winter pike fishing on the river can be very good, especially if you do your homework first. After hearing that the Pike had been coming out at one of our local stretches Alan and I just had to drop a few baits in. To get to the area […]
When the snow is around in the Brecon Beacons you can be sure of a couple of things…one; the scenery will be breathtaking, and two; it will be fairly busy around Pen y Fan. But as Louise Towler, a UK-active team member, had never been there before and […]
The RVOps shop based in Plymouth recently sent us this “Rite in the Rain” all weather notebook to test out. It’s a great sounding product, which if really does what it says it can, would be priceless in all sorts if situations, from diving to golfing in the […]
RAB have built a name for themselves over the years for top quality, hard wearing outdoor clothing. The company was started by respected climber Rab Carrington, and although the company has now changed hands, the same high quality philosophy still reigns. Personally I have owned more waterproof jackets […]
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