The pack for days when you’re moving fast, the Arcteryx 16L Mantis is efficient, organized, and comfortable on any terrain. The packcloth is durable, lightweight, and made from 100% recycled polyester. The panel-load main compartment has a reservoir sleeve and secure internal pocket. External storage includes side pockets – great for water bottles, windshell, or…
Compartmentalise to your heart’s content with these featherweight Zip Packs from Swiss legends Exped. The lightest splashproof packing cells on the market, this comes in at a ridiculous 31g. Use it to separate your dirty laundry, or thermals or undies, or whatever you like. The customs inspectors will be so impressed!
This is one of a series of excellent guide books from the Confraternity of Saint James, the pre-eminent, London-based organisation supporting pilgrim activities in Europe. Their guides are an inexpensive option for walkers heading to Santiago de Compostela on any of the many routes across Spain, France and beyond. Each book provides directions and details…
It may have been been renamed, but the Field MS (formerly Field 7) is still the industry standard compass for schools, scouts and anyone delving into the art of navigation for the first time. The baseplate, rubber grip and common scales will help teach the junior explorer this lifesaving skill. All Silva compasses include a…
Designed to take you beyond the nine to five, Rab’s Depot 25 is a discreet urban style pack made with hardwearing materials. The Depot 25 has a rock-climbing inspired roll top closure and spacious inner bucket style compartment, carrying everything you need for work and play. It has a zip access back panel with roll-top…
Totally overhauled for 2019, Lowe Alpine’s VT Manaslu has most of the features of the but remains at a lower price point. Utilising their VT Plus Carry System, and thus ensuring a perfect fit for your entire walk, the Manaslu also incorporates most of the benefits of the Cerro Torre, such as the front opening…
Cicerone’s essential guidebook for walking the GR5 trail, 660km from Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) to Nice or Menton, through the French Alps. Includes all the main variant routes as it passes Mont Blanc, then through the Vanoise, the Queyras and the Mercantour National Parks. Includes accommodation, profiles and maps. Suitable for fairly experienced hikers.
Some ancient methods are still the best – like using a CUSTOM QUIVER to carry your poles across your back. Easy to access, easy to stow. Get them when you need them, forget about them when you don’t.
This Osprey travel daypack was designed to integrate seamlessly with the entire Farpoint/Fairview Family, attaching to any travel, trek or wheeled pack in the collection.
Printed on waterproof tyvek this tough map covers the Snowy Mountains Main Range on one side at 1:25,000 & Guthega to Round Mountain including Mt Jagungal on the other at 1:50,000 with amazing detailed representation with 10m contour intervals. Also with detailed insets of Watsons Crags, Dead Horse Gap, Blue Lk, Lady Northcote Canyon & marginal…
John Chapman and his co-authors spend their lives hiking all over this great land and writing guide books so the rest of us can follow them. Through years of refinement John & Co’s books are well laid-out and colourfully illustrated that detail routes, background, safety, trip planning and further reading.