Recent content by chris_r

I took this a little while back in Northumberland. It's Winter's Gibbet near Elsdon. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

I'm hoping to get a Hunka XL in a bid to reduce weight. I've currently got an MOD bag. Can anyone tell me, when it's packed into the built in stuff sack, is there room to compress it further? I'm going to be using it when bikepacking and volume is a consideration.

I recently bought a Vargo Triad ahead of cycling the Sandstone Way. Tested it last weekend and I really quite like it. Not as convenient as gas, but a solid stove for boiling water, so it's ideal for dehydrated rations. If I was going to cook anything more complicated I'd take my little Robens...

A little late to the party, but I've been using a DD 3x3 for some time. I recently switched to a Rab Siltarp 2 and I've got to say I'm impressed. Solid construction, light weigh an compact. For anyone else in a similar position it's definitely worth a look.

Thanks guys. I'll follow up and let you know how everything turns out.

Three years ago my wife bought a CWC watch for me as a birthday gift. After 18 months it was letting in moisture and the battery had failed. It has spent the last 18 months in a draw as I've been putting off getting it serviced. Today I rang Silverman's to look into the cost of getting it...

I recently acquired BPL Pocket Stove which I'd intended to use with my Trangia burner, but the problem I've found is that trying to extinguish the Trangia burner with the Trangia simmer ring is something of a death defying act. The stove is really narrow at the top and the simmer ring just about...

This thread has totally passed me by, I've only just seen it. If it'd been the weekend I would have been there. Can't believe you're moving too, who's gonna turn up in a top hat an tails now? I had my money on you coming in a velvet cloak with a diamond tipped cane and spats next time round...

Sorry guys. Aside from my epic poverty, I also have a child to look after and a wife to collect from the station. Promise I'll try harder next time.

I'll be up for something when I've got some cash, but that's not going to be until the end of the month. What were you thinking venue wise?

lol. I'll just sit in the cold car park gazing longingly at you guys through a misty window whilst you sup the good sup.

Now, if I wasn't as poor as a church mouse that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese, then I'd come along, but I am. :(

You need to listen to songs that were old before you were young, that way you never feel old. Zeppelin does it for me.

Dave Grohl's biography's out too. May be worth a look.

Because it's taptacular. Presumably by sensitive side you mean the bed sores have set in? :)