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Andy Jarman (AndyJarman) - BPL Premium Member

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About Me Spent my youth addicted to world travel, am now a recovering travelholic trying to pretend I enjoy suburbia...
CityPerth
StateWestern Australia
CountryAustralia

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Roclite 295s
I bought a pair of Roclite 295s to take the place of some cheap Columbia shoes I have had for years. Despite all the marketing hype I haven't found the Roclites to be much superior, same weigh...

In GEAR » Help please trail runners
March 13, 7:11am
Did you read the weight of it though?
It's more than 2kilos isn't it? 4.5lbs. Wonder why? Looks like down.

In GEAR » Convertible Down Blanket W/Snaps-Genius? Superfluous?
February 09, 5:24pm
Hydrophobic down
Have you seen the videos of the tests on Zpack's website? From memory it takes two hours for the treated down to sink into a glass of water, but only a few minutes for untreated. Not really s...

In GEAR » What's the story with Hydrophobic Down?
February 09, 4:53pm
Getting water out of small puddles and seeps.
Samuel Our rivers here in Western Australia are often polluted with dissolved salts and we generally drink from recent rain puddles or local springs and soaks. The Aboriginals lived of soaks th...

In Make Your Own Gear » Squeeze Filter Twirler
January 30, 2:44am
Tyvek as a fashion statement
This website is an eye opener into the potential Tyvek holds http://www.materialconcepts.com/products/tyvek/black-tyvek/ According to this you can print onto it with a bubble jet printer (I&#...

In Make Your Own Gear » Tyvek
January 30, 2:21am
What's the bottom made of?
Have you got the silnylon or the Cuben Fibre floor on this bag?

In Gear Swap » MLD Superlight Biv
January 30, 2:03am
Loose 25grams for $3
I've thrown away my Sawyer Squeeze syringe and replaced it with my $3 backwash converter made from two water bottle lids and a piece of plastic tubing. Simple, cheap and a superior piece of equ...

In GEAR » Light equipment sometimes is really cheap...
January 29, 3:20am
The best pillow I've found so far.
I never seem to have any extra clothes to stuff under my head for a pillow, and my shoes are not the most attractive article of clothing that I want to lay my head on. I've discovered 4L rect...

In GEAR » My never ending search for the right pillow
January 29, 3:13am
Syringe be gone - how I liberated myself of another gadget
Having Read a few of the dozens of threads on the topic of the Sawyer Squeeze filter, and having come into a supply of cheap ‘no-name’ brand squeeze bottles ($1 each from a local supermarket) I...

In Make Your Own Gear » Squeeze Filter Twirler
January 29, 2:41am
Sawyer improves its bags - Aussies go check out Kmart
John Abela has recently posted an interesting article about Sawyer's new tougher (?) and improved 'squeeze' bags - http://hikelighter.com/2013/01/20/sawyer-squeeze-updated-2013-version...

In GEAR » Sawyer improves its bags - Aussies go check out Kmart
January 25, 8:12pm

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