Archive for June, 2008

ME Free T Shirts with Sleeping Bags

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

For a while now Facewest and Mountain Equipment have been giving you a free Logo T shirt when you bought a Mountain Equipment jacket costing £100 or more. Now that offer has been extended to cover sleeping bags costing £100 or more, which is basically every down bag made by ME.
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Trangia Stoves from Facewest

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Classic lightweight aluminium burners and cooksets that run on methylated spirits. Trangia stoves have been around for years and have always been popular with outdoor groups and families. No moving parts at all so very reliable and excellent value. Not sure why it has taken so long to add them to the site as they […]

Faster Boil Times and Fuel Economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

In the pursuit of more fuel economy and faster boil times it has become apparent that the greatest gains are to be had by improving the heat absorbed by the cookware rather than the energy chucked out by the stove.
A standard unshielded pot only gets about 40% of the energy put out by the stove. […]

Water Filters and Purifiers

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I have just revamped our water filter and purifier offering. In comes the Steripen Adventurer and the MSR Sweetwater Filters. Discontinued is the MSR WaterWorks. All the images and descriptions for all the filters and purifiers have been improved and updated, which in some cases was long over due. We were never actually doing the […]

More Therm-a-Rests

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

We thought we could broaden our Thermarest offering as we seemed to offer all the fast and light mats and the Trek Travel ones but were missing all the super comfortable Camp Comfort ones. I know you would be mad to walk anywhere we one of these monster mats but there are a lot of […]