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Hello I'm considering buying a Tentipi zirkon 15 for use as a dining room for a bushcraft bistro but I've never seen one up close and live many many hours from the nearest stockist so can't go and have a look at one. Does anyone have first hand experience of how spacious they are inside? I'd...

This might be just the thing, is there any reason why you shouldn't use it heat a holding tank , take cold water from the bottom and return the heated water to the top?

Missed it thanks for the heads up though. Have blown all my salary on the 50% sale in the snowboard shop so going to wait till October to buy a new bag, it I's getting a bit emotional though as my summer bag is very thin and the zip is broken. Night time temps are already in single digits.

Missed it thanks for the heads up though. Have blown all my salary on the 50% sale in the snowboard shop so going to wait till October to buy a new bag, it I's getting a bit emotional though as my summer bag is very thin and the zip is broken. Night time temps are already in single digits.

It's cheaper than the £400 I first thought I was going to have to pay and it sounds like a winner. All my army buddies swear by snugpack. Thanks dude

Cool, £20 sounds good to me. Have insulated my self from the ground with a bed made from branches lined with about 5 inches of moss which is really warm and quite soft. Might throw some reindeer hides on top of that.

Thank you, I'll take a look now.

I'm looking for a sleeping bag suitable for temperatures down to about -20 plus possible wind chill. Does anyone have experience of the Nanok Performance range?

This is what the internet says Drinking urine - Survival It has been suggested that when a person is in desert survival or surrounded by water and devoid of drinking water that the person must resort to drinking his own urine if it is the only liquid available. This technique has been said...

I know, well have met, people who swear by drinking their own urine and do indeed swear by it's health giving properties. I don't know how healthy they were but they certainly didn't appear to be dead. I suppose the thing is that they are not JUST drinking urine but taking on water as well.

some recipies for the outdoors http://bethejam.squarespace.com/outdoors-cooking/

thank you, that is just what I needed to know.

Has anyone got experience of the Army Issue "bouncing bomb" sleeping bags, I seem to remember being told they were good to minus forty but am not sure. Anyone experienced them in Norway?

Sell it as romantic. Go off somewhere quiet, moonlight, stars, open fire, bottle of wine chilling in a stream, stick some candles in jam jars then put the jars in white paper bags and you have your own lighting effects. Then wake her up an hour before dawn and make her stand too in case of...

You any good at making risotto? I find a bag of risotto rice, some olive oil, garlic, stock cube and maybe an onion in the pack makes for a relativly lightweight monster feed. However, it does use up a lot of water and takes a while to cook so would recomend cooking over a fire and making it...

had to go take down a curtain rail from a property the other day, the only instructions I had was that it was in the South East bedroom. Obviously I didn't have a compass on me but I could see where the sun was and I knew what time it was so the correct curtain rail was taken down, I hope.

I`m trying to raise twenty five thousand pounds for Rainforest Concern, if you would like to sponsor me you can do so here http://www.justgiving.com/ditchmonkey I'm undertaking a "sponsored live in the Swiss Alps for a year without a tent". Whilst we all enjoy life outdoors I'm sure you can...

Maybe us blokes like to bang on about all the outdoors stuff we do because it makes us feel macho, meanwhile the girls are probably too busy talking about kittens or knitting or something ;)

Thanks for the link, fortunately I have a handy German on hand to translate - I never leave home without one. I have spent a lot of the last three winters figuring out how to do this and have built some connections with the local community as well as working out the technical side of things...