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Gear talk: Pacer Beads

Pacer, or Ranger, beads are a simple and useful navigational tool to make at home

Gear talk: Pacer Beads

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Trail talk- The Swale Heritage Trail
Trail talk: Village Signs
Art on trail: a lightweight fountain pen
Map measure of the month: Société des Lunetiers Curvimeter
Knife chat: Leatherman Juice S2
A hiker’s library: Knots
Trail talk: Britain’s National Parks- A family album
Trail talk: knotty years
Trail talk: returning to my ‘not-so-local local walk’
Gear chat: Gossamer Gear Sit Pads
Knife chat: No.07 Mon Premier Opinel
Map measurer of the month: Philips’ Universal Simplex
Gear talk: HydraPak flasks
Gear talk: FLEXTAILGEAR Tiny Pump
A hiker’s library: Telephone kiosks
Knife chat: The Victorinox DofE ‘Pocket Tool’
Knife chat: First time ‘Vics’
Gear talk: Altoids EDC tins- are they still a thing?
Trail talk: Telephone kiosks
Trail talk: “have you change for the phone?”
A hiker’s library: The Great Divide, by Stephen Pern
Knife chat: Derma-Safe razor
Trail talk: food resupply
Knife chat: Slim, attractive… No, not me, it’s the often overlooked Victorinox Excelsior
Map measure of the month: the Radix
Gear talk: Victorinox Mini Tools
Knife chat: Is this the best, lightest, sharpest, folding knife available? It bloody well might be!
A hiker’s library: ‘A Pennine Journey – The Story of a Long Walk in 1938’ by Alfred Wainwright
A hiker’s library: ‘Shake Well Before Use, a walk around Britain’s coastline’ by Tom Isaacs
Knife chat: breaking down the Victorinox Midnite Manager
Knife chat: breaking down the Victorinox Classic
Trail talk: A coastal walk in the wake of vikings and hovercraft
Map measurer of the month: the Silva scale lanyard
Trail talk: “Clues without a Compass”
Trail talk: The Sustrans Millennium Mileposts
Gear talk: Pacer Beads
A hiker’s library- before the click of a mouse: ‘Know the Game’
Trail talk: a bespoke paint palette for backpacking
Trail talk: measuring gradients with a slope card
Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day three
Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day two
Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day one
Map measurer of the month- the Mile-O-Graph
Knife chat: Opinel knives
Trail talk: 1962 instruction on how to get in to trouble- “Map Your Own Home”
Trail talk: bothies
Knife chat: Victorinox Money Clip- useless clip, great knife
Gear talk: Kovea Spider
Trail talk: “Camp the Outward Bound way- and laugh at the weather”
Trail talk: happy birthday Rupert Bear
Map measurer of the month: The Roller Rule- “The Pencil with a Brain”
Trail talk: A brief history of rambling guides for Kent

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