MSR is a great company with an excellent reputation so it is not surprising that their tents are such best sellers. They have a full range that extends all the way from skimpy little shelters that weight hardly anything all the way up to some pretty serious expedition and mountaineering tents. One of their more […]
The MSR Whisperlite Stove vs A Trangia Alcohol Stove: Camping Stoves Compared
I’ve been looking fora while for some real data on how different camping stoves stack up and finally stumbled across a great comparison of the amount of time that it takes to boil some water using different sorts of stoves. The results are pretty stark in showing how much more powerful both canister gas stoves […]
The Trangia Stove: A Review Roundup
Some bits of gear are just so darned simple and reliable that it is hard not to love them. The Trangia stove is one of them. Well, I should say Trangia stoves because there is a whole range of them in a variety of sizes. Yet they are all still true to a very simple […]
The Best Multi fuel Stove for Camping and Mountaineering
A friend recently asked what I thought was the best multi fuel stove for expeditions and camping, and when I thought about it I figured that actually I couldn’t give him one simple answer because in my opinion there are at least two that are great and they are the MSR DragonFly and the second […]
Mammut Lucido TXlite Headlamp vs. the Petzl Tikka XP
Forgive me if I get a little too excited about headlamps, but I really do find that they are such essential pieces of mountaineering gear that I usually end up owning a whole bunch. You may by now have figured out that I am a huge fan of Petzl and love their range of small […]