The Outdoors Show To Leave The NEC

Yes I know there won’t be many people crying over that. Personally I will as I thought the location was central-ish enough for most people round the country to get to. If we take out the content of the show (which has been a regular complaint from visitors for years) that the cost of going [...]

PHD Winter ‘10 Sale Coming Soon

During the night the “preview” email from PHD arrived announcing the 2010 Winter Sale. The sale itself starts on the 13th March. I announce the sales here because they are a chance for Challengers looking to replace or buy a new piece of kit to get a bargain.
Here using the magic of cut and paste [...]

Cicerone Launch iPhone App

Today Cicerone added to the growing number of iPhone apps for the outdoors with the release of their Cicerone Explorer app. It’s available now from the iTunes app store and is free.
So what do you get for your pennies?
Well for starters there is the ‘locate me’ feature that uses the iPhones GPS to give [...]

Sharrow Meals – Gourmet Meals On The Trail

I’ve been remiss in not putting up my video on the Look What We Found Stuff. It really is unforgivable. Which I will rectify in the near future. But I have to admit I do like the food that they produce. I have a couple of favorites in the range, but I do like the [...]

Alpkit Skip The Outdoors Show

yep you read that right. In the March email newsletter that Alpkit sent out today. This is how they broke the news:
“We have decided not to go to this year’s Outdoors Show. It takes a lot of energy and quite a bit of cash, and to be honest we thought we could make better use [...]

MSP Wants You To Stop Camping In His Backyard

Remember some of my previous posts such as “Is Scotland Such A Good Example?“, “They Are Not Wild Camping!!” and “Loch Lomond and Trossachs NP Informal Camping Bylaw Consultation Period Starts” ?
Well a story has been bought to my attention that is a couple of weeks old now, but still better late than never and [...]

iPhone Memory Map App Free Version

Well the post title gives the game away. The release of the Memory Map iPhone app was covered a few posts back, when I also discussed the elephant in the room as well of the impending free OS maps.
However in the email that Memory Map sent out today announcing the release of the iPhone they [...]

Loch Lomond and Trossachs NP Informal Camping Bylaw Consultation Period Starts

Those of you with a long memory will remember a post of mine entitled “A Couple Of Questions For You” about a story that was being run at the time about the problems the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park was having with so called “wild campers”.
Well now the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park [...]

Memory Map Coming To The iPhone

Soon to join the growing number of iPhone apps that turn the iPhone into a GPS that uses OS map data will be Memory Map.
All Memory Map are saying at the moment is the following (which I took from their email announcement and reproduced here with the miracle of cut and paste):
“The iPhone app will [...]

Faulty SPOT 2 Recall

Over on some of the US blogs I follow they are reporting that SPOT are recalling the Spot 2. Apparently there is a fault with it.
According to SPOT “we discovered that some of the new SPOT 2 devices might not meet battery and messaging operating specifications”.
Over on the US website there are SPOT 2 Exchange [...]

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