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Mossi repellant is a must have for me, nothing worse than the high pitched whine of a mossi looking for a suitable landing spot.

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I have a pair of fjallraven trousers with all the bells and whistles that i wear fairly often but I wouldn't buy another pair, too expensive for what they are and they are right handed !!! If the weathers dry I have an old pair of cotton army trousers that i really like, comfy, super simple with...

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I have pretty much the same set up at John even down to the tea towel charcloth I thin ive had my bit of file for 20 years. I have also made crude steels at home with some scrap of O1 steel, and a hacksaw, file to shape it and a Brenner blowtorch(using their special gas) in a crude brick...

Well I wonder, maybe this blanket has cotton or something absorbent in its make up. Its a merino blend but the label no longer shows what the composition is. It is a good blanket, insulates well and I use it at home where it doesn't get the damp feeling. I have looked on line and a few blanket...

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Totally agree, the warmest blankets are bulky, heavy and usually very expensive . Blankets are not really suitable for carrying for any distance especially if the weather is cooler, because they are so heavy and bulky,I use mine for static car camping. I find wool works very well for me so I...

I bought a Tilley T3, I already have a blue one that I've had for maaaaany years. I would thoroughly recommend the Tilley T3 as a good 3 season hat, very versatile and robust.

I have seen a shop in Europe where you must bring your own containers for absolutely everything, they even sold liquid dish soap loose. Most of the customers were using large glass jam jar type containers which they weighed on the way in. This shop had a very wide selection of mostly dry goods...

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Savotta make a solid rucksack although they are expensive, I have a 25l day sack from them and when the time comes I will buy a larger pack from them. The pack I'm currently using that fits your bill is a Fjallraven Kaipak 38 which i really like, it has an internal frame, a decent padded hip...

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My only concern with washing old coated nylon kit in a washing machine is will it wash off the coating on the inside of the item. When I put my old macpac in the washing machine on wool wash and with some gentle soap the inner coating started to flake off. Maybe you could just wash the outside...

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I saw some years ago someone wearing shoes with soles made from glue and ground up car tyre rubber. He said when they wore thin he would just paint over the worn sections. I seem to recall he said the glue was special super strong shoe glue but don't know how or where he got the tyre rubber...