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In my quest to find a decent wind shirt i have bought the Rab Boreas pull on and the Montane lite speed to name 2 well known offerings, i wa...

The Mountain Equipment Arclight jacket was my replacement jacket for the failed Montane Minimus mountain Jacket I reviewed here . In some ...

The Montane Minimus Mountain jacket is a lightweight waterproof. Its only difference between this one and its brother the Minimus jacket is ...

It seems an awful long time ago that i was initially involved in this new waterproof smock. This post is not a review as i did reviews on ...

  The rainy season is getting closer so I chose the O utdoor R esearch Helium Over trousers after much deliberation. And “ Yes", i boug...

About 3 years ago, maybe 4,  i went out of my way to track down a Paramo Adventure light smock in bottle green. I phoned around and eventual...

By far the two most used zips in the latest outdoors shell jackets are from RiRi and YKK. If like me you have had some problems with water i...

 We may have just had the warmest day of the year and waterproofs are probably the last thing on peoples mind at the moment so you may wonde...

 I wrote a post a few weeks ago, here . It was referring to the latest expensive waterproofs that have exposed weather resistant zips and no...

Have you noticed that waterproof jackets for hiking, backpacking etc are now almost entirely using water resistant zips. I don’t know w...

  I always read fellow blogger Alan Sloman’s posts because they portray quite a lot of what i think about the outdoors but he puts it much m...

Thanks to Richard @ blog  Sheila has now received her new lightweight down jacket from Uniqlo. She is over the moon with it and the weight ...

Over the last few weeks we have had numerous discussions on windshirts. Whats good, whats not. What we like etc etc. Some of the prices are...

While is was reading the excellent post from Mac E's blog . (Hope he doesn't mind me putting in the link.)  I thought about the old...