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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...

Yes, copper bars and coins sell often in bullion groups I'm in, and appear to be gaining in popularity.

I don't know an awful lot about copper, but I'm going to guess that much like silver, pure stamped bars are worth more than scrap? It'll also take up a lot less room.

You're welcome. I think I got the microspikes from Alpinetrek, but they are readily available from numerous places. These ones are Grivel. I think pretty much the two 'top' brands of microspike readily available in the UK are Grivel and Kahtoola. Not that I have tried the Kahtoolas, but I...

Dogsbodying:

Just a few photos from a walk to Pen y Fan last week and some dogsbodying opposite Pen y Fan over the weekend. During my walk I had to 'rescue' a girl who was seriously struggling on an ice incline and was, for want of a better word, 'frozen' on the spot. The microspikes I was wearing made easy...

I made another 3% on a Silver trade which I entered last week and sold today.

I agree, and have been saying the same thing. Have been thinking about stacking some copper bars.

'Tycho' is an interesting crater. It's relatively young at only 108 million years old, and you can still see the marks on the moon from where the material was ejected outwards from the impact, something that has weathered away on most others. Amazing if you think about it.

That last photo was literally me holding my phone up to the lens. Some of the other photos were with a dslr and t-adaptor. Would love a dedicated astrophotography camera.

This was from last night, it was the clearest night looking through the telescope that I have seen so far. There was almost no noticeable atmosphere turbulence. The amount of detail I could see in the moon was mind blowing. This photo was me holding my old smart phone up to the eyepiece. It was...

Yeah, that light has taken 2.5 million years to reach us. Mind blowing indeed.

We've been having beautifully clear skies, and my garden points South East, so I get an amazing view of the moon all night. I do actually prefer a partial moon because the shadows cast at the terminator bring out all the detail in the craters. Jupiter is one of my favourite things to observe...

Yes! Here is the Andromeda galaxy! I think it's much bigger than what you can see in this photo, which is likely just the core, but with being in Pontypridd, and a very bright moon, I don't suppose I'll see much more, but nonetheless, I appreciate it's immense beauty in know that it's another...