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GORE-TEX comes in many forms - we look at GORE-TEX ShakeDry on this page and give our opinion of it.

GORE-TEX comes in many forms - we look at GORE-TEX Paclite Plus on this page and give our opinion of it.

GORE-TEX comes in many forms - we look at GORE-TEX Pro on this page and give our opinion of it.

GORE-TEX comes in many forms - we look at GORE-TEX Active on this page and give our opinion of it.

We stock 4 ranges of Mountain Equipment sleeping bags, find out which they are and what they do here.

Wechsel Bella tent - designed by women, optimised for women but a great backpacking tent for anyone.

I used this pack on a three-day winter backpacking trip to the Lake District and was mightily impressed, Gregory don’t seem to have compromised at all which makes me wonder why all backpacking rucksacks don’t weigh in at 1.2kg or thereabouts. How much does it weigh? The sample pack I used had a medium back length and with all the optional components removed it weighed 1100 grams, but you …

Criterion has two particularly lightweight ranges of sleeping bags of interest to backpackers, they are the Ultralight range and the Quantum range. The former uses 700 Fill Power down and the latter uses 870 Fill Power, therefore the Quantum range has the highest warmth to weight ratio of the two so is of most interest to us. Down Quality At 870 Fill Power Polish Goose down (in a r …

The Hoka One One Sky Kaha boot is the closest to a ‘traditional’ hiking boot in the Hoka range but you won’t have experienced this level of comfort in your typical leather hiker. The deep midsole combined with the rocker makes you feel like you are almost floating across the trail. They are part cushioned trail runner and part-leather hiking boots. The upper is nubuck leather with a …

With new sleeping bags being introduced into the range for 2022 the range is now very big, we explain how to make sense of it and choose the most appropriate Rab bag for your activity.

Exped have revamped their sleeping mat ranges and are now using recycled fabrics and are producing the mats to a carbon neutral standard, furthermore they have simplified their naming convention so that the mats now feature the R-Value in the name. This is only a good thing if you understand R-Values and we think the names could have been better. The R3 is a regular sized mat 7cm th …

This was not my first use of these boots, I’d been using them for about a year prior to this trip, I’d bought them as a winter boot for days out in the Lake District where I didn’t see the need for big traditional winter boots. They will take a lightweight micro crampon for traversing ice, they are waterproof and warm enough with mid-weight socks for everything I’d be doing during a Lak …