Review: Glock Entrenching Tool
An entrenching tool ( e-tool for short) is a compact digging tool which is a good thing to have in your backpack. It can be used for a variety of purposes, -digging a toilet pit, digging a shallow trench around your tent to channel off rain water, digging for roots, mundane construction projects or to [...]
Review: Pacsafe eXomesh rucksack lock
Buying the best backpacking gear is expensive, so keeping it safe is a priority. Backpacks or rucksacks are not secured as easily as a suitcase is. Suitcases can be chained or tethered by means of a cable/chain and padlock, but how do you do that for a backpack? If you loop a reinforced chain or [...]
Review: Chico bag’s Bottle Sling
When I bought my 40 oz (approx 1.1 liter) Klean Kanteen, I also bought a neoprene jacket made by Built NY from them. It took me quite some time -almost a year to get used to the neoprene jacket (because I was carrying my Sigg around) as it was a bit different from the simple [...]
Review: Snakes of India -The field guide
Snakes evoke mixed feelings in most people. They are either feared, adored, worshipped or despised. Even among those who worship and revere them, most of them would rather keep their distance than come up close to observe them. On looking back at my past interactions with snakes, from a total of about six or seven [...]
First Look: Khukuri, Ganjuwal Swiss
I had been aware for quite some time that my camping equipment was missing a tools for chopping up firewood into manageable pieces. I did have emergency tools like the excellent shark toothed saw on my Victorinox Swiss champ, and a commando wire saw. However these are basically tools to be used in an emergency [...]
MRE’s in India
My post on the Bug out bag keeps getting more complicated and the research seems never ending. It seems sensible to break up the post into manageable chunks instead of one long post which will otherwise weary the reader. This separate post is also advantageous as I can keep reviewing newer products without breaking the [...]
Review: Clikstand for the Trangia burner
review of my Clikstand for the Trangia burner
Review: TV on Tata Photon +
Technology keeps changing… After I replaced my Airtel EDGE data card with a Reliance USB modem, I breathed a sigh of relief, but not for long. I’m habituated to opening umpteen tabs on Firefox -a habit I picked up while using my Airtel PCMCIA data card on account of its mule like pace. I don’t [...]
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