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By christ i hate to admit it, but,,, A mobile phone is the best survival tool most of us would ever need (TEOTWAWKI and out of reception areas exepted)

Good list Magentus, The Shock Doctrine is indeed a shocker :aargh4: A good film to check out is 'What a way to go, Life at the end of Empire'

Cracking Pics. Cracking Loch, Cracking Fire. Cracking Tarp set up. Seriously BAD looking tent! LOL only joking,,,,,bet it was lovely and warm inside

Hey, that looks a hell of lot better than I'd manage anyway,,,,, good job Ray Mears knife an awl,,, ye rich shisse kopft ye,,,, he he he....

Hey, that's really cool, I've been involved with a Red Squirrel project in scotland that is collating the most comprehensive information to date on the subject . I've been surveying and monitoring red squirrel for the past year or so and haven't come across anything like that,,,,,,coool!

One of my favourite places in the whole wide world. Done all the peaks round that neck of the woods and have many happy campfire memories. Even met Muriel Grey on the peak of Bidean nam Bian while she was filming the Munro Show (maybe jthat's ust a Scottish thang!) while I was out of my face on...

The house of cards will eventually come tumbling down. How and when, I know not,,,,but I must see about getting a hold of some serious armoury beforen it happens!

There aren't any decent dogs in that category! get yourself a proper mutt like a spaniel, lab, collie etc and then buy a decent vacuum cleaner and tell the missus to live with it!

All good advice above but remember, volunteer , volunteer , volunteer, volunteer. frankly it seems to be the only way into an outdoorsy career. If you can't afford to work for nothing ,,,,,,well tough! there seems to be an abundance of middle class (supported by sugar daddies) types just...

I observed the 2 minute silence today (and find I think more profoundly on it with each progressing year). I found myself thinking,,,, why no 2 minute silence for collateral innocent victims of war, or even, say, malaria, starvation or aids deaths victims each year (which hugely outnumber the...

There are, i believe, around 7.5 million cats in britain. For the sake of argument lets say that one in ten of them catch one bird per week (it could be a lot more or less, this is only a guess!). That would mean 39 million wild birds killed each year by domestic cats. Still not tooo upset about...

I cant imagine anyone would limit their camping to only ever using hammocks

I'm certainly enjoying it anyway. He seems like a sound bloke and the scenery is always breathtaking (could do with a few trees tho!)

Couldn't agree more, well said. In my book Ray can "almost" do no wrong

IIRC you have to sign up to view the forum properly. But you still cant view it until you've written a suitably impressive introduction about yourself (those in the know will decide if you've made the grade!) :rolleyes: Then after a few days you may be allowed "in". :D I think you also have...

I had a whisperlite for a number of years. I wouldn't have another one though. I found it an incredibly messy bit of kit (i used either coleman fuel or unleaded petrol) It used to get covered in soot and moving the legs to set it up or pack it left my hands filthy. It stopped working on a few...

Absolutely magnificent series so far. When I think of all the rubbish that's usually on, it fair warms the heart to see television like this being made.

You sure you want to give up on the FZ38? I got one fairly recently after putting up with a wee compact for a few years and am very impressed. Image quality for me is fantastic, but I'm no expert. These 'bridge' cameras seem to have come a long way over the past couple of years. I used to...

Just a thought, but have you considered combining a sleeping bag liner or a light weight bivi bag to extend the temperature range of a bag. It would open up a wider choice of bags for you and it would give you a more versatile set up to use according to the temps you encounter.

Ha! I wonder if that was the same year I was there stoo. It was a few years ago anyway. Was really looking forward to it as I'd been told by friends it was really good (mind you they had been consuming seasonally available mushrooms of a particular variety beforehand! :naughty: ) however, it...