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I was at a lecture by Martin Hartley recently and he suggested wrapping the camera in several plastic bags when you take it indoors, and taking lots of silica gel. Personally, given the chance, I'd try to leave the camera somewhere cool (e.g. a boot room) if possible, and subject to security...

I played the Artful Dodger in a school production of Oliver! back when I were a lad and, following a suggestion from one of my teachers that I was method acting, it stuck.

I think that one of the reasons behind this is that a TV programme like this has to appeal to a wide enough audience for a broadcaster to be prepared to fund and schedule it. Ray could make an instructional video on 15 different methods of firelighting but I doubt it would be very popular beyond...

It's the same cameraman (Barrie Foster) he's worked with in the past.

Hmmm... That's a good idea! I like reading and I'll often pick up something to read locally to where I'm, staying - e.g. I picked up a copy of Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove in a New Age/hippy store in Joshua Tree before I headed into the National Park last year. There's nothing like reading...

Divorce her!

Mind you, why the don't simulcast it is a mystery.

Both my Sky Guide and the BBC website show it on BBC HD at 10pm.

SAK, Mora Clipper, Benchmade Nimravus, Bahco Laplander.

I really enjoyed this evening's lecture. Ray's a good speaker. As he has done in his past television series', Ray based his narrative around the stories of some individuals' experiences of travelling through the wilderness during the early days of the Hudson's Bay Company, to the extent that it...

Just wondering if anyone else is going to Ray Mears' lecture in Royal Tunbridge Wells tonight (Thursday)...

That's what I think too. My understanding was that the name "denim" comes from "serge de Nimes", Nimes being a town in France where the cloth was made and exported from.

Looks like it's currently scheduled for an hour afterwards on BBC HD (i.e. Sunday 10pm).

Why a saw and an axe?

That's just 60g less than the current British Army-issue bergen (3.56kg, as measured on my kitchen scales, including both sidepouches and the yoke) which has a 120l capacity, and the same weight as Arc'teryx's biggest pack, the Bora 95 (3.5kg, according to their website) which has a 99l...

Good photos!

Just watching this on C4+1. I'm not a big fan of Grylls' previous TV programmes (e.g. Born Survivor), because they play like a litany of what NOT to do if you get stuck in the wilderness. This is better - a little reminiscent of the programme RM did with Ewan McGregor. I'm not sure why they...

That explains a lot! There's a distinct style of instructing favoured by NCOs, in which they refuse to impart any information about what's coming up and drip-feed everything to the students. It might be the best way to teach raw teenaged recruits but it can be a little irritating if you're...

Following on from Wayland's pocketses threat... I bought a Domke Photo vest a few years back and over time, various bits of non-photographic kit (e.g. emergency kit, Laplander, GPS, DC4, torch, SteriPEN, binoculars, etc.) have ended up in its pocketses. It's a great way of carrying more kit than...

Icebreaker Superfine 190 Tech-Ts North Face Sequoia shirt when it's warmish Ray Mears' Woodsman shirt when it's cooler