Postie’s not been yet but I’ve just had an email from Alpkit with a mid build photo of my Broken Road, very excited

It’s decent stuff, I’ve had quite a few bits and pieces from them over the years.
They had issues with a batch of camo tarps once (probably 10 or 12 years ago) but quickly resolved it and replaced any affected tarps

#gRAVElwankers

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:34 pm Journey to the centre of the earth just arrived

Read it last year, or maybe the year before on kindle, but wanted a paper copy

Also the Magic Faraway Tree arrived for mini-voodoo

Mr Moonface? Loved that book

techno wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:38 am

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:05 am I knew we had a good number of old punks but didn't know we had so many ex-ravers ... I reckon it explains a lot

Definitely.

Who's up for ravepacking? (Awaiting copyright clearance notification from Reg)

Bagsy not carry the speakers

I seem to have got off lightly with clegs in this country but know others who suffer, my mate down Peterborough way complains about them every summer. The only time I’ve experienced bad clegs was in Austria, walking through a wooded area next to a river when the wife let out a yelp, they were biting...

Sad to see After Dark rotting away now, I live in Morley and drive past the front door every morning. It was turned into an Italian restaurant which was weird, huge place with no atmosphere, kitchen was in the chill out room. That didn’t last long at all and it soon closed again, the neighbouring bu...

Good idea shaf. I'm usually andy. Edit: Oh yeah the explanation. Techno comes from my musical obsession and mail is a bastardisation of my surname. Should have probably just gone for techno thinking about it.... Good man, did you ever make it to Orbit in Morley back in the day? Too right!!! I went ...

I'll just say that I've made it through 61 summers in Scotland with neither a midge-jacket nor midge-gloves... 😊 You’re a braver man than I, or you must taste bad :grin: I don’t actually get bitten that much or the bites don’t seems to affect me much, it’s the sheer density of them that can make a ...

techno wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:11 am Good idea shaf. I'm usually andy.
Edit: Oh yeah the explanation. Techno comes from my musical obsession and mail is a bastardisation of my surname. Should have probably just gone for techno thinking about it....

Good man, did you ever make it to Orbit in Morley back in the day?

The Highland species of midge is the worst of the biters and needs a physical barrier like a headset. :o might explain why I've never been as afraid of em as other folk... I don't think I've ever been to the HLs :smile: Will keep that jacket advice to hand... Do we need a headnet as well as the jac...

There’s quite an interesting book out there on midges, I lent it out on the forum some years ago and never got it back. Talks about all the different species of midge, which ones are the most ferocious, feeding patterns etc. It also talks in great length about science, research and the lengths we ha...

Horrendous most likely but don’t let them get in the way of a good trip.

I’d pack a Beaton midge jacket, either Autan, Avon SSS or Wilmas Nordic Summer, or all three just to be safe,

Pray for a 5mph breeze too :)

Plenty of permethrin for the ticks

Taylor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:51 pm Water coming up through the cleat plate?
Have you sealed it after fitting your cleats?

Interesting, is that a thing?

Only got my first pair of clippy boots at Xmas and haven’t done this

Neoprene is funny stuff and can take an age to dry out sometimes. I have a $900 hunting jacket (I don’t hunt but use it for open canoeing) which has neoprene cuffs, it’s the only thing that lets it down. The face fabric can appear or feel dry but the inner rubbery stuff is still saturated. It’s a tr...

Was the neoprene cuff still wet from your waste deep wading Shaf?

Neat idea, I like that

Lovely, apart from the swimming bit, nutters

Wheel bag just arrived from Ali, should reduce the amount of dried mud I keep finding in the car after a trip.

A bit scared to open a parcel from China so might bung it in the freezer for a couple days first.

I used to carry a Powrmonkey charger in the days before smart phones, two AA’s would be enough to charge up my old Nokia brick every week or so, not used it for ages but I don’t think it would charge my iPhone on one set of batts, technology should’ve come along since the though.

Not really read the article on my phone but I’d be more inclined to do so if she’d written something herself rather than just linked to social media pages, has she even been to the top 8 or just picked them out her armchair? Running an outdoors site myself I can appreciate the struggle between wanti...

Polycryo aka secondary glazing film, I use a wide piece folded in half to prevent tearing and snagging on wet boots.

Tyvek is okay but it doesn’t stay waterproof for long, if that’s a concern

A pair of Schwalbe G-Ones, just need a bike to fit them on now

Oh and a new chain cleaner after I dropped my last one and it disintegrated on the slate floor

Carol always thought I was weirdo for nicking her Tampax for emergency fire lighting, this could be even trickier to explain