Archive

June 2012

More Quick and Easy Recipes For Camping

Quick Camp Recipes Here is the next  in our series of blogs on quick camp Recipes,  I sure we have all used dehydrated camp meal, we at the LD Mountain Centre stock Wayfarer and Rosker  ready food.  Like most camp ready foods they have come a long way in the past few years and have improved greatly.  Most ready foods will have some form of curry in there range weather it’s meat or vegetable,  but for me a curry needs nan bread and Onion Bhaji  so here’s some simple recipes... Read More

New Zealand Ski Fields Kick Off the Season

New Zealand Ski Fields Kick Off the Season With the Northern Hemisphere winter season well over,  many seasonaires have made the yearly migration down to New Zealand, with the southern Island fields opening in the past couple of weeks and plenty of snow falling and more forecast it looks like the southern hemisphere could be in for a bumper season. So for those of you making the trek down to NZ, where should you go and why. Queenstown… A lot of seasonaires head for Qtown, the southern hemisphere adventure capital,... Read More

Quick Camping Recipes to Try

As you may of read in my Hot Aches Productions Odyssey Tour Blog, I have spent my fair share of time cooking over the years in all sorts of places all over the world. We thought it might be good to share some quick and easy recipes, that can be cooked in a camp enviroment or on the bbq if we get any bbq weather this summer. So I will be posting something for you to try every couple of weeks.   A Quick Camp Recipes to Try A lot... Read More

Favourite Areas for Wild Camping in Scotland

Hopefully the summer will come eventually and when it does some of you may want to get away from it all into some remote wild country. If you’re heading for Scotland, or already live there, here’s some suggested areas that we’ve enjoyed. If you’re new to wild camping there are some great areas where you can camp near to a remote bothy or even use the bothy if you want to go really light and leave the tent at home. The great thing about wild camping is that once you’ve... Read More

Getting started. Climbing indoors

For those of you who are learning, or looking to learn to climb– Here are a few ideas for your first pieces of climbing gear. After using the hire kit at the indoor walls you may soon realise it’s a good idea to get your own as 1) It will be cheaper in the long run and 2) If you want to climb more regularly or progress to climbing outdoors, it’s good to have your own gear. 3) Hired harnesses are not the most comfortable in the world! For belaying,... Read More

Summits of My Life Trailer

We came across this little teaser from Kilian Jornet and cameraman Sebastian Montaz-Rosset. The pair have worked together previously on the Kalian’s Quest series of videos for Salomon. For those unfamiliar with the pair, Kilian Jornet is a three time winner of The North Face® Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc® while Sebastian Montaz-Rosset is renowned for his skills behind the camera responsible for the films I Believe I Can Fly (flight of the Frenchies) and One Step Beyond.  Summits of My Life will documents Kalian’s new on-going project on starting this summer by... Read More