What did you buy today?
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The White box stove arrived today. Really pleased able to bring 300ml of water to the boil using 2 fluid ounces of fuel in 2.5 minutes after fuel bloomed. Use trangia 27 kettle which I think is the more stable of my pots over mugs. The windshield is titanium and is more sturdy than aluminium types. Quick delivery from backpacking light.
The stove is perfect for a situation where you only need to boil water for a brew. No flame control or simmer ring facility for slowing down the heating of food. Not sure whether the stove has the capacity to heat a boil in the bag type meal, I don't use such foods. To say it is made from aluminium cans it is sturdy enough to place in a pocket or rucsac. I can recommend it for the use I have bought it for making a quick brew.
I got myself a new lightweight tent (to me 1.8kg is lightweight to me lol)
Vango Nevis 200 for only £72.99
Very Happy with it.
Ive got better pegs in the post.
Vango Nevis 200 for only £72.99
Very Happy with it.
Ive got better pegs in the post.
Vango make some very good tents. The force 10 is a classic.
Got myself little bag for the woods off ebay I had bought a cookset off a Facebook selling page, got my fingers burnt there, it turned up food still in the corner of the pan, and dripping wet, so everything smells badly, sent a message and he claims he never used it then a sorry so only buying new ebay or off here as never had a problem one here.
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A campa box complete....except 3 weeks later Milletts send me the wrong one................
a campa box lite
a campa box lite
Picked up some bits and pieces for our hammocks from DD Hammocks, two GSI Outdoors insulated mugs/containers (an infinity mug and a fairshare mug) for rehydrating homemade dehydrated food, some tick removers for ourselves and the dogs, and two different types of pee funnels to try out.
Do you think the funnels will actually work. I really want a nice solution for that but don't see how they can be better.
No personal experience obviously but this is the one most women pilots use. The picture is of two separate items sold by Sporty’s Pilot Shop (they have an online catalog):
1) the red urinal, and
2) the white funnel adaptor
I don't really know but after reading other ladies' accounts, it seems like you just need to find a type that works for you. I've gone for two (pStyle and Pibella) that had mostly positive reviews and that should be more suitable for the type of situations I'd want to use one in.
I'm usually fine with squatting and don't particularly mind if people notice what I'm doing, but it would be great for situations when you can't do that, or it's too cold or midges everywhere. Would have been great on fieldwork last winter when wearing a boating survival suit all day or working in especially sensitive and protected areas (in combination with a pee bottle).
There is talk of a learning curve (eg don't tip it backwards - gravity, you know ...), but many ladies also don't seem to know their own anatomy very well, which obviously doesn't help.
Which type did you get? I've owned otom ones in small and large but never used them on myself despite owning them for 10+ years. Until the weekend when we found 2 ticks on our dog. Used the larger one but not sure we used it correctly. We twisted and pulled. It came off with a twisting tug but it didn't want to!! It looked intact but there's a swelling left in both tick sites. We now need a second set for us humans so interested in what you got.
One of these - maybe awesome , maybe rubbish.
Draumr-flat sleep hammock tent with bug net and suspension kit
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I'm missing something; how's the foot end suspended? It only weighs 900g! - I was expecting more.
Foot section is enclosed and supported along the lateral seams.
No doubt mine is a knock off ( £40 you get what you pay for ) , but this is another version
