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[31 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]
Vango Storm Shelter 800 – Bivy Sacks

The Vango Storm Shelter 800 Bivy sacks are made of a waterproof fabric and are designed to accommodate a sleeping bag and pad. This form of tent is very light and compact and they are particularly popular with climbers and mountaineers. Some hikers will carry these on trips in case of being caught in foul weather and they need an emergency shelter.
The most light weight bivy sacks do not have poles and lie over the top of your sleeping bag. Some come with hooped poles to keep the tent off …

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[29 Sep 2009 | No Comment | ]
Should be left alone in the wild?

I been watching Channel 4’s Alone in the Wild which finished on Thursday night and I am still thinking about it 4 days later, but not in a good way.
If you happened on this awful piece of television you may have thought that you were watching Eastenders which has in nearly every scene somebody crying, well this was no different.  The documentary is based on Ed Wardle who has a “lifetime ambition” to be left alone in the Yukon for 3 months and live off his wits.
The premise of …

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[10 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Sponsored Bike Ride

Can you imagine six unfit rather rotund ex-rugby players cycling 200 miles of the most gruelling, hilliest and beautiful roads in Scotland in so doing visiting  Jura, Islay, Arran, Great Cumbrae and Bute in 4 days, neither could we until now.
Yours truly along with 5 other similarly gifted specimens are raising money for a truly worthy cause, MS Society Scotland.  Our challenge starts off on the 23 July 2009 and finishes, hopefully, on the 26 July 2009.
The reason why we’re raising money for MS Scotland is that one of our …