Recent content by Glydr

Smith and Wesson search and rescue knife, fixed blade.

I take a both a trangia set and a hexy stove and mess tins as a secondary, as well as using a fire as much as I can. The trangia I find was a great investment, worth spending the money on, had years of service from it, meths is only £1.49 for a small bottle round the corner from me, most places...

Probably in Mexico is the nearest, maybe

A course for rich people that one.

Totally smother your hands in mud, this will provide some hand protection against stings in the absence of gloves .

My sympathies to you, I have a big dog and a big axe so rarely worry about these things happening to me.

I fortunately live not too far from the coast, I acquired a limpet shell from here, for they make great bearer "blocks", very smooth inside, almost zero friction on your spindle top. Just to make it spin even more freely, I spit into the shell before starting.

lol, and this bit just to make up the 10 characters

Respect to you, I'm quite impressed, you set a tough challenge and rose to it

"Test yourself to the limit".... While sat on your backside indoors. Didn't Bear once say he promoted the scouts because he wanted to get kids off there consoles and outdoors?

I'm now getting off thread a bit, but that's something I've been meaning to post about. When going on expeditions, usually around North and Mid Wales, I sometimes struggle to locate suitable parking within a reasonable distance of a site, say 30 mins to an hours walk as I do haul quite a bit of...

I remember seeing a clip of Ray Mears cooking eggs in embers but he wrapped them in a load of moss first so they just got enough heat to cook and not explode

If you're out in the woods would a pizza delivery place deliver to an ordnance survey grid reference?

I'm not on it myself but my car is on it twice in two different locations with 200 miles in between them.

Two nights out this year so far, on seperate occassions, one in January, one in late Feb in heavy rain that lasted all night, had the tent for that one but used the basha and bivi bag in January, both nights at different spots in Clocaenog Forest