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Hi all, I was looking for a little advice on appropriate footwear for hiking in a desert and figured you would be the people to ask. I might be spending a month or so in summer hiking the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, we are doing several hundred km over the period and I expect long days on my...

Hi all, yesterday I got back from a trip to Brecon with work. I was supervising a gold DofE group and helping a little with the training etc of practice groups so had a pretty busy time but still had a chance to put some of my new kit through its paces. The weather was interesting, there was a...

Hi guys, I thought it might be a good chance to show you some of the leatherwork I've produced over the last little while, particularly some work I have done this summer. A friend commissioned me to make a simple sheath for his grandfathers sheath knife and I came up with the following: I...

I was camping with my nephew on some woods owned by my work last week and decided to test out my new rig. It is designed to mimic the kit that might have been used by woodsmen in North America during the eighteenth century which dictates materials etc. I have a canvas sheet that I am using as a...

Dear all, I've been lurking here for a little while and have found it to be a pretty fantastic source of information and advice so I figured it was probably about time I started getting a little more involved (read as 'I wanted to pick people's brains more effectively'). A little about...