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Barry did you get your swanndri sorted if not a have a dark blue zipped swanndri technowool flleece too large for me so would be xl reasonable offer accepted mark lang
does depend on what product, i have some trestex overtrousers and they were expensive (but heavily reduced) and have actually proved to be excellent very comfortable, breathable and durable. In general products are cheap and nasty, but there is good stuff in there as well.
agree with most of the plants but its not sheeps bit scabious, its either small or field scabious
small umbellifer will be burnet saxifrage, not yarrow. looks like calcareous grassland so you might find salad burnet in there - leaves quite easy to iD and taste of cucumber
as a professional ecologist who teaches plant ID i would use Francis Rose the wildflower key, its not as technical as it looks and once you get used to it is fantastic. Nothing else works as well in my view
I find gore tex liners don't last, make my feet hot in the summer and when they you get water overtopping get wet take twice as long to dry - horrible. I prefer unlined leather boots with sealskin socks when required - these last a few years but at least they are replaceable, dont like wearing...
I have done this with taiga fleece under an arktis Polycotton windproof, works is waterproof but too warm for active walking, that's the rub as the fleece tend to be warmer than the pump lining
what I have done is wear the Quito jacket under Polycotton which SSD a lighter than the Targa fleece...
I have recently had the same dilemma. What I have concluded (to be tested this weekend in the hills) is that a single light wool or fleece top are fine for walking but once I stop I need something warmer: either down, primaloft, or buffalo. if im backpacking, like this weekend I will take an...
Adders do swim although rarely! Much more likely to be a grass snake, did you see a whit/yellowish collar just behind the head? worth sending the location and time of the sighting to your local biological records centre
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