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A Personal Survival Kit isn't a tiny little tin with bits in, it is a collection of equipment to assist you in not dieing. So in the urban context a beanie and a raincoat and a phone + cash/card to call a taxi could be included. People in urban areas die of hypothermia all the time. 3AM on the...

I simply don't guy out my rolled Titanium flues, I use the silicone roof boot to secure the top of the flue. I think you have to treat rolled flues as a replacement maintenance item. Tip from an American site is to roll the foil over a length of PVC plumbing pipe the first time and fire it up...

We never exchanged addresses and this was before mobile telephones so contact would have been difficult. I considered this "Paying it Forward"

I have a similar tale. Goes back many years and relates to language difficulties and different cultural expectations. Australia has many old huts and shelters in our Alpine areas. I arrived at a popular hut in the late afternoon just ahead of a cold change and late forecast snow [ Late...

A bottom grill may help. I have used a small cake rack in my little cylinder stove. The big Helsport stove did come with a perforated rack and that is a replacement item. Happy experimenting I was born in the 1950s, but we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift and if we can get though the next...

I have some small experience with small tent stoves and the heat going up the chimney isn't "waste heat" the radiant heat from the flue is what I use to dry off my wet gear. I'm burning twigs and other small stuff in my cylinder stove and while pretty much useless for cooking on it works to melt...

It's going to get more difficult with plantation timbers tho. Around here a lot of plantation timber is a hybrid

Isn't the Douglas Fir really a sort of pine tho? Being a member of Pinaceae and almost all of us at times call conifers pines. We have a Cedrus Deodora in our front garden and we are always cleaning up dead "pine needles" Nice camp

Another thought about the UKs pernicious climate and the PSK. If that PSK included an UL waterproof, a set of warm base layers and an insulated vest then I'd say "Yes; definitely" My home area in Oz has a better climate than most of the UK [ except in the Summer when heat is the enemy] and I...

To help with a similar issue with the one piece band I took a strip of soft leather, put some slits in it and used that to make my wrist band more comfortable

I didn't ask what your budget was> I'm lucky in that I've reached a late stage of life where I can play around a bit and spend time researching and sewing MYOG gear, but modern UL fabrics and insulations have gone up so much and so quickly I am going to have to stop soon; also I never asked what...

I could make do with about 5 or 6 good knives but it is such a pleasure to use the right tool for the job that I don't think I'd find cooking such a blast if I had to scale down my collection. The youngster will most probably get most of them and my library of cookery books too. Not sure who'll...

Can you sew? Do you own or can you source a good down parka warm enough to sleep in? While I am still working on my own DIY sleeping shell I've used a few variations on Gerry Cunninghams "Mountain sleeper system" over the decades Basically it is an insulated bivvy cover with a full length pad...

I'd say my FOH carving knives were also ham knives. Front of house there is often a bit of showmanship going on. Some chefs are better at it than others, I was probably mediocre at it

I use most of them at least once a month, some of them I use daily. Yes I use most of them all the time although my Santukos live under lock and key. I buy in bulk and prep in bulk so I do need that range. If only cooking for two or three you don't need all sizes of each style; but you would...

I was until I got wise but 32 years in kitchens. There are three types of small paring knives. Then a couple of sizes of general purpose cooks blades 4" and 6" or similar Then the French cooks type, 7" to 15" in intervals A couple of Santuko in 6" or 8" and 10" plus a couple of Chinese style...

Maybe for a total beginner but my own minimum [ not including duplicate] would be at least a dozen. My 11yo Grandson has 5 already and he is almost ready for boning knives so that will add at least two new ones and if he wants to bone fish make that 4 more as fish filleting knives need to be...

Over the decades I have collected a lot of knives. What the handles are made from is the last thing I look at; although all professional knives are supposed to be dishwasher safe. Balance and the ability to take a scalpel sharp edge have been my only real priorities for over 50 years. There are...

I want a centre zip too but the Valandre is too small and Nunatak have stopped making theirs. And when the temperature drops below 5C I need a sleeping bag not a quilt

A standard "LARGE" bag is about a 155/156cm girth, some are more generous at 160cm; a standard "EXPEDITION" cut is about 165/166cm girth. I bought a Big Agnes Farrington with a 152cm shoulder girth and I can't get into it and close the zipper I can just squeeze into an expedition cut bag wearing...