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Outdoor gear reviews

Click on the links below to read a selection of gear reviews.

DMM Puma Harness

"If you've studied the female form, or own one, you'll know there's usually a bigger difference between women's hip and waist measurements than men's, and their rise (waist to crotch) is longer. The Puma's dimensions suggest women have fatter thighs than men too, but Graham says" ... read

My Favourite Gear For ... Walking in Wales

"Gear Ed Sarah’s essential kit for wandering about on wild Welsh isles, or anywhere else for that matter" ... read

Rab Vapour-rise Trail Jacket

"...what makes Gary Rolfe, a polar explorer who swapped SW7 for the remotest inhabited place in the western world (Greenland's Ittoqqortoormiit), choose to wear Vapour-rise jackets “continuously since they were first produced through a temperature range of 81ºC (30ºC to minus 51Cº)” ... read

Marmot Angel-Fire Women-specific Sleeping Bag

"Studies revealed that as well as being a different shape to men, we're generally a lot shorter (the average height of a female is 5'4” - my height, actually) and most of us feel the cold more" ... read

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