We raided the piggy bank and got a spanky new Satmap Active 10 to replace our aging dinosaur of a Garmin Vista HCX. We toyed long and hard over the Mapyx Lowrance range as they work with the digital maps we already have but in the end plumped for the Satmap. The Garmin has served […]

There’s been a lot of interest in the products being offered by our new NI-Wild Forum Sponsor “Tenth Wonder Hammocks” and rightly so!  I notice a few of our members have already bought some items, but are yet to put them to the test, so I thought I would lay my hands on some kit […]

I did a brief pre-review of the Exped SynMat Ultralight 7 back in 2011 and have been using it solidly since then for bivvying and tent camping (but not hammocking) and it has proven to be an excellent piece of kit. It packs nice and small, is a great weight for the gram conscious and most […]

(Updated 03/02/2013) As my gear loving friends know I’ve been vehemently opposed to Multifuel stoves since I heard first their helicopter-landing din and realised they were little more than an unpredictable Molotov Cocktail waiting to remove a few fingers. However, I’ve always been nervous around anything flammable under pressure, gas included so it seemed only fair that I […]

I’ve been looking for a solution to replace my Berghaus Down Vest for quite some time. While the vest is an excellent piece of kit, I thought its warmth to weight ratio could be bettered and since it’s lacking arms and hood I still tended to feel cold when I was wearing it. My original […]

The NI-Wild Christmas Dinner is an annual affair well worth looking forward to. A full turkey dinner with all the trimmings prepared over an open fire with lots of mulled wine and followed by an evening filled with war stories of peaks conquered, rivers run and weather suffered. Dwarfs would sing songs of the weight […]