My traditional kit: canvas and leather!
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Just picked up a Frost River Timber Cruiser Junior today and everything said about these packs being bombproof is spot on. Looks like it was designed by Shackleton who passed the manufacture onto someone like Isambard Brunel. The thing looks like it was built in a Victorian shipyard....awesome.
Home ill and found this. Great pics that have taken my mind off things a bit - thanks.
Is that one of the new Fjallrven sacks? How have you found it?
K
Is that one of the new Fjallrven sacks? How have you found it?
K
Cheers mate! The backpack is a Fjallraven vintage 20l and the little Ovik blanket is just thin wool backed g100. Both are great bits of kit, the backpack has a nice removable frame feature which is really comfortable for carrying loads over long distance even though it's just a day sack - blanket does what it says on the tin and I love them both
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I can add this lot now:
more frost river goodness! An 18 inch pack basket, nessmuk with sternum strap, SB lunch bag and trifold fly wallet. There's a Morris billhook and a fallow deer hide which are new too. The basket fits the isle royale well too for a combo if I ever want too. onto photos: (alongside my other frost river goodies for scale)
more frost river goodness! An 18 inch pack basket, nessmuk with sternum strap, SB lunch bag and trifold fly wallet. There's a Morris billhook and a fallow deer hide which are new too. The basket fits the isle royale well too for a combo if I ever want too. onto photos: (alongside my other frost river goodies for scale)
Loving the new gear Cameron - looks great!
Looking forward to seeing some pics showing it all in action.
Looking forward to seeing some pics showing it all in action.
Think you've got the tastiest kit set up ive ever seen their fella.looks a real quality reliable set up.liking the blade n carry all sheath especially.have a goo d trip out
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Cameron.
have you got anything left to buy from frost river mate?
I've been tempted by the nessmuk pack for years but never had the funds spare t justify it
have you got anything left to buy from frost river mate?
I've been tempted by the nessmuk pack for years but never had the funds spare t justify it
I particularly like the photography of the kit layouts. It always seems to add something to the collection to see it nicely presented like that. Just like food, half of it is in the presentation. I take it that is a deerskin in the photos. It is used for anything besides a photo backdrop?
I have an accumulation of old gear, more old-fashioned than old school or traditional, though some of it dates from the 1940s (so do I). I have so much that I have to try real hard to use everything at least once in the course of a year. And I still want more! I have an eye on something from either Duluth Pack or Frost River. I was lucky to visit the Duluth Pack store once. My senses were overloaded for a while.
Even with traditional/old-school/old-fashioned items, we all evolve our own opinions about what works and what doesn't and what is simply obsolete. For instance, I have three or four pair of heavy, thick wool pants. They're good for cold winter weather but under certain conditions, no better than combinations of long johns and blue jeans. Of course, blue jeans are as traditional as a canvas pack. I love wool shirts, too, but I like medium weight dress-shirt styles, like Pendleton, though I have a couple of heavier shirts, too, and I do wear them all. None are "hair shirts." I have also decided that I don't like pullover-style outer garments, traditional or not, though I do have pullover shirts. The reason is because I only have to walk up a slight grade and I'm hot and a pullover garment doesn't allow me to cool off sufficiently.
If you go back far enough, working men and woodsmen wore leather garments, especially pants. I don't recall anyone here ever mentioning leather pants or britches. Anyone have any? Or old-style breeches (not shooting breeks or whatever they're called). In turn of the century photos, one frequently sees men wearing various kinds of breeches, probably riding breeches, either with leather wrap leggings or high boots of one kind or another. I don't suppose anyone does that, just to be traditional or old-fashioned. Somewhere I have a photo of an uncle of mine holding his son or daughter. He's sitting outside of a log house, next to the stone chimney, dressed in breeches (probably army surplus) and leather leggings.
I have an accumulation of old gear, more old-fashioned than old school or traditional, though some of it dates from the 1940s (so do I). I have so much that I have to try real hard to use everything at least once in the course of a year. And I still want more! I have an eye on something from either Duluth Pack or Frost River. I was lucky to visit the Duluth Pack store once. My senses were overloaded for a while.
Even with traditional/old-school/old-fashioned items, we all evolve our own opinions about what works and what doesn't and what is simply obsolete. For instance, I have three or four pair of heavy, thick wool pants. They're good for cold winter weather but under certain conditions, no better than combinations of long johns and blue jeans. Of course, blue jeans are as traditional as a canvas pack. I love wool shirts, too, but I like medium weight dress-shirt styles, like Pendleton, though I have a couple of heavier shirts, too, and I do wear them all. None are "hair shirts." I have also decided that I don't like pullover-style outer garments, traditional or not, though I do have pullover shirts. The reason is because I only have to walk up a slight grade and I'm hot and a pullover garment doesn't allow me to cool off sufficiently.
If you go back far enough, working men and woodsmen wore leather garments, especially pants. I don't recall anyone here ever mentioning leather pants or britches. Anyone have any? Or old-style breeches (not shooting breeks or whatever they're called). In turn of the century photos, one frequently sees men wearing various kinds of breeches, probably riding breeches, either with leather wrap leggings or high boots of one kind or another. I don't suppose anyone does that, just to be traditional or old-fashioned. Somewhere I have a photo of an uncle of mine holding his son or daughter. He's sitting outside of a log house, next to the stone chimney, dressed in breeches (probably army surplus) and leather leggings.
I meant to mention in my previous post that there is a book devoted to traditional camping entitled "Camping in the Old Style," by Davis Wescot. It's quite interesting and well-illustrated with photos and quotes from old books on camping. After I got a copy of the book, I realized I actually possessed a copy of most of the old books that were referenced. The only fault of the book is that many of the reproduced illustrations are quite dark.
Another interesting book, though not oriented towards outfitting and "how-to," like the book above, is "The Way we Camped." It is really mostly about camping in the mountains of California, particularly in Yosemite, roughly from about 1890 through the 1940s.
Another interesting book, though not oriented towards outfitting and "how-to," like the book above, is "The Way we Camped." It is really mostly about camping in the mountains of California, particularly in Yosemite, roughly from about 1890 through the 1940s.
Sorry Cameron this is a bit off-topic, but some here might be interested in this company for canvas and leather gear. Again it's in the USA and looks to be very much a cottage industry, but prices seem very reasonable and they say they ship internationally (NB I've no personal experience of this lot, just thought they seemed worth checking out)
Alder Stream Canvas
Added later: I've now found a few references on BCUK to this company - all very favourable!
Alder Stream Canvas
Added later: I've now found a few references on BCUK to this company - all very favourable!
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There is something to be said for the smell of canvas and leather, very evocative. I wonder if in the future people will be enthusing about the old fashioned feel of goretex and silnylon in the same way?
Their equipment looks well made and very good prices too, I have book marked them. Thanks for sharing the link.
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