April 22, 2017
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The nice people at Sigg sent me a couple of water bottles today. I was rather excited to receive them. The thing is, it's a water bottle, made of metal, so what's the big deal?
Well, this one is a pleasing blue. It has a beautiful finish coupled with the reassuring feel...
March 22, 2017
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Now many of you may be familiar with the phenomenon that is freeze-dried food in pouches. Like me, you have probably tried a few brands from various outdoor shops or websites. They all share the same ubiquitous commonality of promising flavour and calories for the tire...
March 15, 2017
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Contrary to occasional belief, bikepacking has little to do with putting bicycles in bags and a lot more to do with putting bags on bicycles.
But there is nothing new about carryin
g stuff on bikes, nothing new at all. People used bicycles to carry things for as long as...
January 15, 2017
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“Why would you do that? What’s wrong with a hotel?”
This is a common refrain when I tell people that I enjoy trekking and spending the night out on the moor. It’s a question that is hard to answer, because the answer itself is in many ways a subtle contradiction.
You see...
November 19, 2016
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Here are my simple top tips for having an adventure.
1. Open a map. (If you are in the UK, the Ordnance Survey make superb ones).
2. Where haven't you been?
3. If an area catches your eye then plan a route there and go see it!
Or...
4. If you can't decide then clo...
November 16, 2016
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I stand in the pitch darkness listening to absolutely nothing.
There is no sound, none. A hammer of silence has fallen and it is deafening. In a frantic attempt to find any kind of auditory stimulus, my young brain chances upon the faint noise of my own heartbeat and fo...
November 12, 2016
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Looking up, as I sat drinking the coffee I’d just brewed, I couldn’t help wonder how many people had flown over me and looked down.
We pass each other in multitudes every day yet I suspect few pause to consider each other as they do. While the immediate destinations wil...
November 2, 2016
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I have a confession to make. I don’t like beige.
There, I’ve said it. It’s just so, well, beige. The disappointed fusion of a brilliant heavenly white and an unctuous earthy umber.
Now I acknowledge that for many people it is a shade of delight, a colour that bring comfo...