Been slowly accumulating some nice shiny gear recently and needed a day out to really test things out, so Got myself down to the Sperrins yesterday. Sadly I caught a dose of lazyitis getting out of bed and so didn’t get down and started until just after 11am. But with good weather and plenty of […]
While we tend to spend a small fortune on various outdoor footwear I would wager not all that many of us have traveled a similar road with regards to what goes underneath. For me this has been something of a five year journey of study and discovery (with a not too healthy amount of skin […]
I had a good wee day out with the kids at half-term in and around the Slieve Croob area. There are some interesting things to see and I thought I’d share it just as an idea for others. There is only a few minutes in the car between each of the places. First up was […]
Wed 3rd Aug 2011 Combined this as a trip with some reviews on kit taken Left Base camp in Castlewellan around 8:30 and started up towards Hares Gap from Meelmore Lodge. Weather was exceptional with the odd WWII plane flying over Hare’s Gap made the journey up extremely pleasurable On arrival at Hare’s […]
Just before Christmas a friend and I set ourselves a new route some of it covering ground we had yet to set foot on. Setting off from the car park at the end of Bann’s Road on a chilly winter’s day our circular route had Bann’s Road as the centre point. I just had my […]
Ever since I got back into this camping and hiking malarky I’ve had a hankering to sort a cooking system where rather than putting pots and pans directly on the fire, we could suspend them over it. We have had lots of success suspending legs of lamb etc but it’s not quite the same as […]
It’s always hard to know what to expect from the weather in Northern Ireland as we have a famously changeable climate, however we also have a nicely precise Meteorological Office who can generally provide a fairly accurate 3 day forecast. We watched the outlook with a compulsion for the whole week leading up to our […]
Hexamine solid fuel tablets are a simple means to cook in a way that requires minimum equipment or in an emergency. The British armed forces used to get solid fuel stoves that used Hexamine in their MRE ration packs meaning they had all the food they needed for a day along with a means of […]
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 […]
It was February 2012 that Dowser came up with a new idea for selecting camping spots. We were finding that we relentlessly went to the same places repeatedly and knew we were missing out on the opportunity to explore and find new areas. The flash of inspiration was beautifully old school simple – a dart […]
