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Wax coated mature cheddars.

What's the danger here? All looks pretty cool. You pamby brits aren't getting all a bit to Health and Safety again are you?

I'm a wee expat - if you want any info give me a bell/PM!

Hrm... Camera - Olympus OM1... Film camera, deeply wrapped in watertight stuff sacks for fear of ruining it. Not ideal really. Smartwool aye, I'll have a look.

I've just been waxing lyrical about my Asolo 535s, they've done me well for snow/crampon work, bush work, river work for 3.5 years... I'm not keen on waterproofing - because when, not if, WHEN your boots soak through (in a ford, river, puddle) then they're just heavy buckets.

After a long stint of lazy-induced-feckless-sedentary-chocolate-eating-wasting ... I decided to shakedown my gear and shakeup my legs! I thought I'd review my gear as I walked: Boots - Asolo 535 - 80% Perfect as always, but when they finally die I'll consider a lighter, easier to wet...

I kept buying various sleeping bags on trademe (NZ ebayesque site) and various discount stores... I should've saved up for a decent bag!

I've been using superglue for 10 years. For cracked heels, after a good rasping. For small cuts on very mobile areas that keep opening up. On my cat's fight wounds. It's manna from heaven for things like that!

I usually feel a bit silly wearing my DPM anorak, but, it's all the Goretex I could afford! I have gone out of my way to give it FLUORO-LIME-GREEN (that bright) hood and hem pullcords, I'm thinking of something equally un-mil for the flash...

I made my first tarp at home, joining two pieces of fabric with a rolled join then just stitched down the middle, I used a waterproofing gel any leaks observed. The tie out points survived pretty well, I used a circular reinforcement patch with a thin tape tie out. 30 cm reinforcement...

I have to say this, but if you thought you loved UK Marmite, wait until you've had a crack at the Australian/New Zealand stuff... It makes the sweet treacle like UK stuff look like Marmite for Beginners!

Svord Peasant - Folder indeed!

You just had me measuring my pocket knife and reading legislation! Phew. Just under 3 inches. The knife.

At sub 200g 5 minutes is not much of a wait is it! I'm trying to figure out how to make an überlightweight shield for my canister stove, good inspiration.

Looks like a really nice set! What's the boil time like?

Google sketchup for free will rock your world.

You can pitch a fly to survive 40mph winds?

Love the doors. Well made single skin tent you've got there.

FYI, all NZ Topo Maps are 1:50,000 with 20m contours and 23 degree mag variance. 1:50,000 is good or almost everything.

After packing up my tramping gear and shipping it up here from NZ I noticed my compass had a serious lean to it. Dangerously so, because it would stick and not swing freely if held level! I thought it had some been stuffed up in shipping... Turns out that it's just not balanced for...