Disclaimer: I was provided with these products for free for review purposes. I tested these products thoroughly and the opinions expressed here are my own. HJ Socks have been around for over a century, and the brand virtually screams “quintessentially…
The Mountain Equipment Kinesis jacket is both a midlayer and an outer layer and over the last couple of months has become my favourite piece of outdoor clothing. I’ve used it alpine climbing in the Alps last summer, winter climbing in…
Soooo… the Lakes Sky Ultra. Ultra steep. Ultra technical. Ultra hard. Ultra beautiful. Ultra awesome. But let me start from the beginning. I was pretty apprehensive the week before the race. More so than before any other race I’ve done.…
So yesterday Janneke and I went van browsing at a huge used van centre near Heathrow. Exciting times! We just wanted to get a better idea of the dimensions of the vans we’re considering buying for our conversion. Currently our…
Who says you can’t have an adventure and travel in style? Last weekend we were invited to an amazing wedding up in the Peak District. Our plan was to take advantage of the location the day after the wedding. So…
Luckily I had booked last weekend in for some mountain adventures for a long time. I definitely needed to blow off some steam after the EU referendum results were announced on Friday. So I left work early on Friday afternoon,…
What vehicle to buy? As far as decisions go, this is definitely going to be a big one. Get it right – we set ourselves up for an epic trip, get it wrong – it could be an expensive mistake.
Last weekend I was off to Wales for a weekend of outdoor adventures and birthday shenanigans (my climbing mate Ben had invited a couple of people out to his house in Wales for his birthday). Since it had snowed a…
For the fourth year in a row now I joined my university’s mountaineering club on its annual winter climbing trip to the Cairngorms. It’s my favourite climbing trip of the year. Scotland has a lot to offer in terms of…
Once you’ve made some audacious plans and you’ve actually gone through with it, what’s next? I’ve just finished the White Rose Ultra in Yorkshire, a 60 mile race. In the scheme of what other people do, that’s not that crazy,…