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Gear Review: Gloves

This review closely follows my look at outdoor hats, and no sepia-tinted journey involving your Mum ramming a home-knitted bobble hat on your head is complete without a pair of colourful mittens linked with a length of string. Similarly,  no monochrome winter mountain journey is complete without at least one pair of decent gloves. Gloves divide people – there are those that prefer a single thick glove, those that like a selection of liners with a waterproof  outer and those that opt for those half-finger gloves with a flap that turns them into mittens. My personal approach varies according to the

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Gear review: Winter daypacks

In the first of a new series of reviews of outdoor clothing and equipment, Walkhighlands’ gear editor Phil Turner takes a look at rucsacks for the winter season. Warm jacket, spare hat, goggles, ice axe, crampons, flask of hot rum tea, spare gloves, bothy bag, snowshoes – it’s easy for a winter load to take on gargantuan proportions and swamp that lightweight mountain marathon pack that seemed cavernous in the summer. To accommodate this increased load I prefer a pack around the 40 litre mark – increasing to 45 or even 50l if I’m carrying group kit. In addition to

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Posted in Gear reviews, Rucksacks


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