Recent content by hughtrimble

Drybags do make you question quite how backpack manufacturers define litres.

I really don't understand why Leatherman gave up on the Squirt. It's a brilliant tool and made so well. I understand the scissor spring breaking was one of the main reasons for warranty work and given it's not an easily replaceable component due to its design, they used to have to just replace...

Change your search engine. There are loads to choose from.

Possibly Octopussy, but the colouration of the film looks too new

Yes, that's a heck of a lot of constraints that would have been useful for your OP!

Inset threaded sleeve at the end of one of the parts, with an inset bolt into the other part?

Were you not tempted to just give it a try when you've taken it with you? Or is there a reluctance to use it due to safety, or lack of experience, or even just not wanting to have to then spend time after using it on maintenance? If I take gear, I tend to make a point of trying to use it...

Exactly this. And although there are techniques to split bigger stuff down to manageable sizes using a saw without an axe or even a knife, an axe is more efficient. Bigger safety risk though if tired or inexperienced.

I really like Mountain Hardwear Crater Lake (¼ zip and hoody but be sure you're not buying the baselayer fleece which sometimes pops up with the same name) and Patagonia Capilene Cool long sleeves, hoodies and their Tropic hoodie. I did not rate the Rab Force sun hoody which felt really thick...

My kind of window

The strop is abrasive though, so isn't just cleaning teeth, it's removing metal? Unless you're not using any compound on it?

Absolutely, I was going to post similar. There are a handful of exceptions where the 'steels' are made of ceramic, or coated in an abrasive, so they look like normal steels but are actually sharpeners dressed up like steels, but they are very much not the usual.

No, last time I tried to buy one (Decathlon MT500) they were selling a smaller size than advertised online. But it'll likely replace my current one which goes underneath my Exped air mat, unless I keep reading threads by @Dan00001 which tend to make me want to go for a Multimat.

Isn't that a relatively recent design though? It's thin, but that's because the waffle shape is designed to trap warm air in those pockets beneath you, rather than relying on the foam itself. So it's using that design to enable it to be thinner and thus lighter whilst also insulating you.

I don't really understand. So modern, but not waffled, and no air in/out. So it's a solid foam mat but using modern materials? Perhaps some of the Multimats with their fancy foams. Though they're not new exactly, been around for a while. Good thread here where Dan and Keith explain to me just...