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- Wed Jan 18, 2017 5:10 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Fancy A Good 65L Rucksack For £28?
- Replies: 16
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Re: Fancy A Good 65L Rucksack For £28?
Hi all, just to let you know this is not the same Karrimor we all know and love. I have had my 90lt Karrimor rucksack for best part of 20 years and it still serves me well. Loaded myself up for the Scillies last year and it performed as always. Last year I saw SportsDirect selling Karrimor items at ...
- Mon Jan 02, 2017 9:49 pm
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Watcher from the shadows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2065
Re: Watcher from the shadows
Hi all, many thanks for the greetings. :D Sethorly: Unfortunately I know a few but mainly the obvious ones and I don't venture down that road too often as I tend to question what I know! So end up carrying at least 2 or 3 books and then refer to another when I get back home. I think with fungi event...
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 9:56 pm
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: Cold weather and lighting a fire
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12131
Re: Cold weather and lighting a fire
Welcome Rob, it's all down to relative boiling points. My understanding is butane needs the warmest temps then isobutane then propane to turn from liquid to vapour. I have had these problems when I first had my Jetboil out whilst working on sea cliffs in February, had to put my ice cold butane canni...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:00 pm
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Watcher from the shadows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2065
Watcher from the shadows
Hi all, been a member for a few years but never posted up to now. Have always considered myself caught between two rationales, one is the countryside ranger who was taught to be prepared when outdoors "better to have it and not need it than...."and preps for many things but not SHTF type s...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:57 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Anyone else use a Shemagh?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8191
Re: Anyone else use a Shemagh?
I work as a countryside ranger and I have had my shemargh for best part of a decade. Bought for less than a tenner of fleabay, and is still going strong now. Have tried other scarves or snoods both wool or modern mixtures but keep going back to the shemargh. It seems to me to have almost silk like q...