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I'm in need of a lighter weight puffy layer for this Southern winter to replace my worn out Patagonia DAS from 1999. Does anybody here own and use the Keela Solo and could comment on the fit? I've looked at their size and fit charts and while I think it might fit and the cost is reasonable but I...

OK It's considered a weed species here and people are discouraged from planting it due to the extreme fire danger they present.

Diesel and a match

I think my OR HighCamp may be a bit bigger all around than the British issue winter mittens. I'll know in a few weeks when the overmitts arrive. Naturally they will get idiot loops and all that if needs be

Well I'll take a chance and hope for the best. Happy to sell them to you cheap bopdude but postage back to the UK from Oz won't make that exchange attractive. I don't understand why the things are camouflaged in Woodland tho, from a purely cold weather perspective white or winter multicam would...

So a Large has plenty of room?

I need some new overmitts for my skiing. Can somebody tell me how generously sized the MTP shells are? Also how well do they perform at around the -5C mark when it's raining and sleeting. I wear a Large to Extra large glove, usually around a 9.5 or 10 and the shell would be to go over these in...

And just to confuse things even more I just received another bayonet from England via the normal post sent as "Antique/Obsolete military stores" and was inspected here by Customs and passed though with no problem. Was sent with the blade fully enclosed in a very thick cardboard tube and then the...

I've simply used nylon zipties on both ALICE and MOLLE/PALS gear

These work well enough https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/laemplig-trivet-stainless-steel-40176455/ Although they do buckle and warp after a while they work well on top of my big wood stove when simmering stews

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Actual making time was minimal. about 20 minutes all up Using the purchased cup saved time. I made a decent sized survival candle with a home made extra large wick as I know from experience that the tea lights don't actually work all that well here in Oz. On the US form it's been mentioned that...

The book hasn't arrived yet so thanx for posting that. I can see how that works and I can think of ways of enlarging that for group use with an A-10 can. I had to google "Oodlik" but turned out to be familiar with the idea as I do make survival candles using small cat food sized tins and I can...

New girlfriend? Get the biggest tent you can afford; it will pay big dividends in the future. Go the Mk5 and add a porch fly awning too, take chairs and cushions. Take Champagne and some way of keeping it chilled, ditto strawberries and clotted cream etc

Links or pictures from the other book? Still working on my updated Yu-Can. I am waiting on a Titanium cup via AliExpress and a couple of Titanium wire tent pegs from a mate EDIT I just ordered a copy of that other book. Might take a while to get here tho. postage from the USA and Canada is...

I've never used my British cup in the field, my preference being for the one I am used to; but I have used the older US WW2 style cup holder / heater/windshield thingy a few times when all I needed was a warm drink. Past [ long past] experience says that using an external windshield was the...

Interesting Here in Oz we were taught to use our canteen cups in the opposite orientation; I wonder if that makes a difference

And Helsport now make a lot of their gear in China so maybe the quality will slip a bit. When the centre pole of my lavvu buckled in a violent microburst the customer service I received was less than inspiring

I have the Varanger 12-14 and use the dedicated Helsport stove. But that stove is very heavy and not really suited to human powered travel, also I find Helsports stated capacity optimistic for sleeping [ especially if you need to use a cot] as you say above; but the central position works best...

OK I'll try hard not to die in the next few weeks then. I've actually made one of these before but I wasn't impressed with how it worked but that was simply because the tea-lights I used were substandard and condensation when attempting to melt snow kept snuffing out the flame and steel tins are...