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If I'm walking up hill, I'm often in just a base layer, a base layer and windproof if it's windy. It does sound very cosily comfortable wearing pile fleece next to skin, however.

Hood is a must. The Montane is a fair bit cheaper than a Buffalo, and was speaking to some mountain rescue team members who spoke very highly of the Montane smock.

I definitely won't be wearing it a lot whilst actually hiking, not is S. Wales at least, we simply don't get cold enough weather, unfortunately! I would use it when stopped, when dogsbodying, or maybe I might don it once I've say reached a peak and the next couple of miles are relatively flat...

I'm currently using a synthetic insulated jacket as a belay jacket, was out in it for a couple hours today in drizzle dogsbodying. It works great, but I do fancy a Montane smock.

I really don't need one but I really want a Montane Extreme Smock (same sort of thing as Buffalo). The deciding factor will be whether I have a use case for one, although I'll probably just fold eventually, there's nothing like a bit of retail therapy! Anyway, I'm wondering what Buffalo owners...

I don't know a lot about identifying the various makes, Terrys are stamped in various places, you can see a Terrys stamp on the handle in one of my photos. My other chest expander has no stamp that I can see but I'm pretty sure it's a 'Spenby' one

I think they are brilliant, it's really thickened up my back, and I think my traps are bigger now than they've ever been, even when I was a regular weightlifter in a gym. I have tried a chest expander for chest how you described but find it uncomfortable and prefer to do dumbbell flys and...

I have long hair, and have caught it in the spring more than a few times. Interestingly, they are called a chest expander because 'The' metric to go by back 100 or more years ago was the measurement around the chest area. The chest expander doesn't actually work your chest, it mainly thickens...

A Herbert Terry & Sons Limited chest expander. Herbert Terry & Sons Limited were predominantly a spring manufacturer in Redditch, I believe. I think this is 1950's/60's. The chest expander is a very old resistance exercise tool, once very popular amongst body builders, but lost popularity when...

I'm not sure how much you want to spend but I think Keela offer great value for money. I don't actually own a Keela garment myself, although I bought my son a Keela jacket, and the quality is fantastic, but I have seen plenty of them in person, and spoke to people who use them, as we are issued...

Robens Arch 2 would be an excellent option. Can be bought for £91.95 (with coupon) new on eBay with free postage. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146006826602

That looks like it might be good for dogsbodying, save my expensive jackets getting abused. How do they deal with rain?

What about older karrimor? Like a Karrimor Hot Earth (40L). I would say it's not too dissimilar to the Sabre 45 (I also own a Sabre 45). It doesn't have zips for side pouches, but it does have mounting points where I think side pouches could probably be fitted, if required. I have moved from...

They are manufactured by a company called Beacons Products Ltd. Beacons Products used to manufacture the karrimor Karrimat for Karrimor before karrimors demise in 2004. They carried on manufacturing the mat, plus other mats, under the name Multimat. The Multimat Expedition range are the old...

Get MacInnes book 'Call-Out'! Absolutely fantastic book. It's an account of some of his rescues. It was one of those books I didn't put down and read in a couple of days.

The Strata range of storage boxes are currently on sale in Argos, I believe the sale ends today. I picked up another 110L and a 145L today. I already have 3x 110L and a 40L and they are excellent storage boxes. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9484720?clickSR=slp:term:strata:2:58:1

I had a Multimat Expedition Extreme 12XL mat on the ground, which is 12mm thick Zotefoams Evazote, a very insulating mat, the BA sleeping bag is supposedly rated down to -15c, it is very warm. I had a long sleeve base layer, Paramo Velez smock, and aften about an hour I donned my Helikon-Tex...

Once he had found me, he came hurtling over to me and firmly plonked his wet nose up against mine and then was gone as fast as he came! There was another 3 or 4 back-and-forths before his handler arrived.

I found one of those on Corn Du! I bet they do just fine on a bit of ice in the street but definitely worth the upgrade to ones with larger spikes for hill walking, imo.

I honestly haven't used them a lot, We don't get a tonne of snow and ice in S. Wales, even in winter, unfortunately, so I have relatively little experience using them to be able to give much of an opinion. Yu can see from some of my photos, ice covered rock on a slope, they performed amazingly...