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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    Just hoping i have not derailed the thread, i don't mind the debate at all.
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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    If you take that quote in context i am drawing a comparison against a gps as an emergency tool, i am not saying that is it's only use. For general purpose compass use i used the word failsaife in the preceding post. :) As for people using a compass when there are plenty of visible landmarks...
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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    I have had the same experience with GPS readings, i won't even carry GPS any more. A friend is an officer in the merchant navy, i brought this up with him and he explained the good ones monitor your movement to remove such anomalies somehow. He voiced doubts that any 'civillian' GPS would have...
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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    Just got home, sorry for the delay. Sure, no problem. :) In the initial draft i condensed everything because it was far too bulky, i am also rather poor at wording some things (as mentioned in the opening section). Seems i stripped it down a bit too much and fudged what i intended to say. I...
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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    No worries at all, happy to help! It's a great hobby for the body and soul, i hope you get plenty of enjoyment from it. I just got done tidying the post up a bit so the format might be different, but the content is the same for future reference. Cheers lad, i wasn't sure if i went too far with it.
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    Can Someone Review My Gear List Please?

    Hi, long distance hiking is something i do often, hopefully this is of some help. In short i follow the 'pack light, travel far, travel fast, avoid hard shells' ethos combo. Naturally, conventionalists and theorists are going to scowl at some of this and potentially consider me a liability, but...
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    Hammock for a heavy guy

    If you have enough sag any hammock ends up with a mock footbox. The sewn footbox's [warbonnet] and tension type [woodsman] are simply there to take the strain off any bug netting you may use (noseeum/nanoseeum has next to no stretch). People used to think they where added comfort, but they are...
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    Berghaus Munro / Centurio 30

    Side compression is my only gripe with the centurio. I have both sizes of centurio, good bags but on a side note different beasts (the larger one can actually direct some load to the hips on taller people, the smaller one does not, but it doesn't need to at that size). The centurio does compress...
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    A good 'year round' peaked hat with 'ear flaps'.

    Oh aye, nearly forgot about this bad boy. Stumbled upon the sherlock of the field cap world. Comedy value at it's best, oddly i kinda like it (in a pipe smoking, problem solving kind of way). The 'BW field cap'.
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    A good 'year round' peaked hat with 'ear flaps'.

    Not sure at all about the 'lovely' bows on the stormy kromer caps and ear bands! They look well made though and some of the fabrics are good.
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    A good 'year round' peaked hat with 'ear flaps'.

    Cheers for all the replies, seems i have gone from few options to many! Turns out Lowe Alpine are stopping their clothing line after 2015, to be replaced by RAB. The identical RAB version is currently getting sold off V cheap in places and the lowes are starting to get discount so im gonna...
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    alpkit

    Titanium gauge: Makes sense, my perspective is as a fast paced backpacker, i don't have to gram pinch as much as an alpinist. You are right, some alpinists do indeed bring it down to mere grams and i can accept it could drive sales down if they where thicker. I see you actually state the...
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    Hammock for a heavy guy

    Here is a vid of hammock tensile tests, they stretch beyond recognition long before they actually fail (the 7/64 (2.5mm) amsteel actually snapped before the hammock (1.8 oz/yd^2 fabric, single layer). Amsteel is of course as strong as steel braid for a given diameter, as you can see it took a...
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    A good 'year round' peaked hat with 'ear flaps'.

    I really like em toddy, to the point im gonna ask again. Definitely too hot for warmer weather on windier days? Ahh who am i kidding, i'm probably going to buy one anyway and sweat my box off with a smile on my face. Really wish they made a non-winterised version of the mountain cap!
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    alpkit

    I use a few bits of their kit. -Titanium mytimugs/pots of varying sizes and age -Phlasks -Carbon trekking poles (got a very bad knee so i have to tripod my way off the fells from time to time) Pros: Price (usually) Decent quality (usually) Good CS Fast delivery Cons: -They copy...