A concise and comprehensive kit explanation and links to suppliers for walking and backpacking/wild camping. We’ll publish every month on fb so really there is no excuse to be wet and miserable on a cold day on the hill.
Campervan!
Now that it’s not needed as a live in vehicle, I lived in my van from September 2012 through to November 2018, and so set up to accommodate everything I owned, I could make a conversion that was all about utility and comfort. A van for living in but mostly for holidays… So I stripped out the IKEA and country cottage T&G interior and started again…
Wales Outdoors Store
We have a store – it’s now the only payment portal for walks as we have severed links wit PayPal due to PayPal’s appalling response to the corona virus and support of small business’ at this extraordinary time.
Litelok
When researching dipping my toes into being a cyclist again I was, following the changing nature of cardiff and it’s car criminality as well as knowledge that every friend that had owned a bike had had a bike stolen, I was concerned about having my new and shiny bike stolen.
Peak Bagger
Just about, as far as we have come across, the best resource for recording all of those hills you’ve been to the top of.
OS Locate – Know Where You Are
This is a great and free app that gives you on one screen a compass, grid reference and your height above sea level. A must have in thick mist and so a very useful back up navigation device on your phone…
what3words
In a world of dumbing down all things we think this a great solution to the scary and complicated numbers and odd letters that make up grid references or gps locations. Anything that assists emergency services locate a missing or injured person is a good thing…
Sky Map
It’s a simple map app but not one that you can use to navigate by, well, unless its a cloudless night and you are an ancient mariner…
GPS Personal Locator Beacon
OK – I can’t find much else that comes close to this so in a month or two I’ll be buying one of these. Anyone with any experience or advice or knowing of a better option please do be in touch 🙂