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Latest LFTOer Gear Reviews

LFTO Gear Team, 26 January 2010 10:54

This is your chance to see what fellow LFTOers think of the products reviewed by Trail and Country Walking. You can piece together our reviews and the user reviews to decide whether these products are right for you. There are links from each product featured on this page to the full review with star rating, our review and reviews from ...

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Latest LFTOer Gear Reviews

LFTO Gear Team, 26 January 2010 10:54

Gear Deals of the Week!

LFTO Gear Team, 08 April 2009 09:39

These are the very latest offers for top brands such as Marmot, Inov-8, Vango, Berghaus, Merrell, The North Face and much more. Stores across the country have told us their best offers for outdoor gear. Why not have a look... cotswoldoutdoor.com Marmot Men's Precip Jacket £35 From £70 Offer while stocks last Marmot women's Storm Front Jacket £60 ...

Gear deals of the week!

LFTO Gear Team, 11 February 2009 09:43

Fantastic offers on The North Face, Craghoppers, Lowe Alpine, Berghaus, Eurohike and loads more great brands from stores across the country! Some of the deals here are up to 75% off the original price so keep your eyes peeled... GO Outdoors Craghoppers Kiwi Fleece £9.99 From £40 Offer for one Week Only Berghaus Calisto Insulated Jacket £39.99 ...

Five for the best LFTOer gear reviews

LFTO Gear Team, 10 February 2009 10:46

Check out the latest reader reviews for a Berghaus waterproof, an MSR Pocket Rocket, a Paramo jacket and more. Each week LFTOers send us great reviews and we've picked some of the best here for you to look at. You can add your own reviews to products already featured on LFTO by clicking here. Or you can review an item not ...

Latest LFTOer Gear Reviews

LFTO Gear Team, 03 February 2009 14:52

Each week you send us great reviews of gear you've bought and tested. These reviews have all been submitted to our Gear Reviews section. You can add your own reviews to products already featured on LFTO by clicking here. Or you can review an item not already reviewed on LFTO by clicking here. We've selected five of our favourite reviews ...

Gear offers of the week!

LFTO Gear Team, 28 January 2009 15:00

Once again we have top gear offers from stores and websites from across the land. Here, top outdoors firms tell you what their best bargains are this week. Why not have a look... Millets Eurohike 200W Sleeping Bag 2 for £40 From: £24.99 each Offer until 28th June 2009 Eurohike Compact Chair 2 for £15 From: £12.99 each ...

The Gear Blog

LFTO Gear Team, 16 May 2008 08:49

Here's what caught our eye on the wires this week... Jetboil simmering nicely It seems LFTO forum types are the first in the know when it comes to gear-world trends. The new Jetboil Helios is so cutting edge that no one's got hold of one, but there has already been a debate about its relative merits here at the home of outdoors passion. ...

EXCLUSIVE: Petzl’s brightest torch yet!

LFTO Gear Team, 09 May 2008 09:28

You could be forgiven for thinking there was a motorbike zooming down the mountain if you clock a walker wearing Petzl’s newest headtorch this summer. Petzl’s brightest torch yet, the Ultra, will light up the outdoor shop shelves this August. Its 350 lumen light makes it four times brighter than the brightest the brand currently offers, the 85-lumen Myo XP, ...

New lightweight Marmot tent

LFTO Gear Team, 04 April 2008 10:37

Marmot have developed a 3-season tent specifically aimed at the UK and European backpacking market. The two-man Grid tent features a tough flysheet made from 30D ripstop nylon, coated with silicone on the outside and Polyurethane on the inside for strength and waterproofing, as well as DAC Featherlight poles to keep the weight down to 2.5kg. It can be pitched ...

Climbers advised to check Tri-Cams for defect

LFTO Gear Team, 03 April 2008 16:00

The British Mountaineering Council has advised climbers with Tri-Cam climbing aids to check them carefully after a defect was found in one unit.The BMC conducted an investigation into a Tri-Cam, made by Italian firm Camp, after a climber reported that his had a loose pin. He had used the Tri-Cam three or four times but discovered the problem during a routine ...

Scarpa’s new scrambling boots

LFTO Gear Team, 28 March 2008 09:00

The latest boot from Scarpa, the £150 Cristello, combines the best features of its popular predecessors, in a technical scrambling and Via-Ferrata boot that can also be used for hill, mountain and glacier walking.The uppers are made from Pro-Tech suede with a pro fibre midsole for extra support and a very generous rubber rand for added protection on rock. It ...

Petzl launches a climbing daysack

LFTO Gear Team, 27 March 2008 11:23

Watch out for Bugs this April! No, we’re not talking about the small, swattable, biting creatures with an alarming number of legs that leave a grimy smear on your windscreen. The Bug is in fact the first daysack for single-day, multi-pitch climbing from headtorch brand Petzl.This 18 litre, synthetic fibre sack is designed to be worn high on your back, ...

Weird stuff from Merrell

LFTO Gear Team, 10 March 2008 08:00

Imagine stuffing a tough, white bin bag with anything you can find and then wearing it as a jacket. This is the revolutionary concept behind the limited edition Gatherer, Merrell’s most innovative new lightweight shell jacket, which is out in August 2008.The £100 jacket has sewn-though baffles, just like a down jacket, but without any insulation. Instead of coming filled ...

The "lightest ever" self-inflating mattress

LFTO Gear Team, 07 March 2008 08:30

Multimat have brought out what they claim is the lightest ever self-inflating mattress, the Superlite Compact 25. Retailing at £40, the mattress is a lighter and more tightly packable version of the brand’s earlier Adventure Compact 25, which was manufactured to MoD specifications. It weighs just 390g, measures 1220x510x25mm and has a rolled thickness of 260x125mm, making it ideal for ...

Tent lantern shows the way

LFTO Gear Team, 29 February 2008 10:35

Batteries must keep headtorch and lantern light designers awake at night. Not in a ‘because they are all robots’ way, but because this portable power source is nightmarishly heavy and damages the environment. The designers at Black Diamond can sleep a little easier than most, then, because their latest tent lantern, the £35 Apollo (out late March 2008), reaffirms the ...

Big hand for smart-gel gloves

LFTO Gear Team, 27 February 2008 16:52

If you were on the edge of your seat watching the film X-Men and their quick-changing superhero powers, the latest ice-climbing gloves from Black Diamond will be on your wishlist when they hit the shops later this year. Two designs – the original Punisher and the new-for-08 Enforcer – have been rammed with a genius gel called d3o that you could ...

It'll take the kitchen sink: the question is, why?

LFTO Gear Team, 26 February 2008 11:59

You’re trying to design a new rucksack for adventurous backpacking. You sit in a meeting with your fellow designers and kick around ideas for features it should have. Now, in most cases, you’ll slim down the 60-odd ideas to a hitlist, depending on exactly what you want your rucksack to do and who you want to sell it to. Not ...

Snow shovel combines the best of both worlds

LFTO Gear Team, 22 February 2008 20:40

Which is best: a plastic snow shovel or a metal snow shovel? Grivel could not decide either, so they combined the two materials, added a dose of common sense design and came up with a radical new snow shovel that looks set to become standard issue kit.The new Grivel Steel Blade is described as the lightest in the world and ...

Design your own sleeping bag!

LFTO Gear Team, 21 February 2008 08:13

If frosty feet or cold spots put you off wedging yourself into a sleeping bag for a night camping under mountains of stars, here's an idea that might help. A new website from the man behind outdoorwear firm Mountain Equipment lets you design your own sleeping bag and have it made in bespoke fashion. It's the bright idea of Peter Hutchinson, ...

My top five bits of kit

LFTO Gear Team, 20 February 2008 10:17

LFTO's Nick Hallissey lifts the lid on his current gear faves... It’s kind of a fantastically frustrating February, wouldn’t you say? Bright, crisp, gorgeous sunshine and frosty fields one minute, impenetrable murk and a “stay-in-bed” sort of outlook the next. It also means that if you are venturing out, you’re having to throw everything in the rucksack with that “just-in-case” ...

Meet the smiley water purifier

LFTO Gear Team, 18 February 2008 17:31

Would you like your water purifier to be a bit friendlier? Not the most essential quality in your bug-killing arsenal, perhaps, but US company SteriPEN have decided it's a nice touch to give you a smile.The Journey, their latest UV bug zapper, out this April, has an LCD display that smiles when you have swizzled the gadget around your water bottle ...

First-ever recycled sleeping bag

LFTO Gear Team, 15 February 2008 09:54

Does going green mean you have to compromise on quality? Not according to Marmot, who are unleashing their first sleeping bag made from recycled materials.The EcoPro 15 is not only made from plastic bottles and recycled fabrics, it weighs just 1.59kg and keeps you warm down to –9 degrees Celsius. Not exactly a hunk of junk!The bag, which costs £110, is made ...

Coming soon: Rab's new Down jackets

LFTO Gear Team, 13 February 2008 14:43

It might sound like some sort of aeronautical accident, but Rab's new Microlight Down series is actually an exciting new range of insulating jackets. The narrow-baffled coats, with or without hoods and armless body warmers, will hit the shops this September. The warm layers are stuffed full of high-quality European down with a 650g fill. They are very light, at ...

First-ever recycled outdoor rucksack

LFTO Gear Team, 12 February 2008 09:00

Projected for launch in Spring 2009, Osprey are designing an outdoor pack made from 70% recycled materials. The prototype of the Atmos Resource 50 was nominated for the Eco Design Award at the recent ISPO 2008 Trade Fair. Although it didn’t win, Osprey still believe in their sack, and are determined to bring from the drawing board into production. “We ...

Gear News Special: The ISPO Winners

LFTO Gear Team, 11 February 2008 09:00

Well, it’s the time of year when people’s finances might be recovering from the madness of Christmas (the odd worldwide slowdown notwithstanding), so we thought we’d give you a sneak peek at some gear biggies for 2008. The following are all winners of the ISPO Outdoors Awards, part of the massive trade fair ISPO which was held in Munich last ...