The Week In Review

Spring depression galore. While in my hometown in Germany it are 22°C and sunny today, we have the wonderful, grey, drizzling, 3°C "spring" weather here in Tampere, with the sidewalks still under ice and gravel and the grey/ white snow being a sad memory of real snow. Go figure that I have no motivation for winter activities anymore.


Best Animation Ever. Samurai Jack.

News & Various:

Timo shows us how to make Pizza in a Trangia.

hrXXLight is raffling off a black Cuben Hipbelt pocket from LAUFBURSCHE, while Lighthiker raffles off three Cuben stuff sacks from LAUFBURSCHE.

Speacking of him, LAUFBURSCHE invites us to "Dance into May" with him, on the weekend of 29.04. - 01.05.2011. If you're in Cologne or surroundings, definitely a must-go.

Another competition where you can win a hand-made wool pullover from Nature-Base is also going on at the moment, so click the link and try your luck!

John reviews the Tenkara, Radically Simple, Ultralight Fly Fishing book.

In case you're now wondering "What is tenkara?" head over to Brian's blog to read Jason's Guest Post on The Perfect Fly Fishing Gear for Backpackers.

And while winter is as good as over, Jaakko will head to Svalbard soon and hence needs to know how to build simple emergency snow shelters.

Locus Gear has some sweet new colours for the new seasons for us available.

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Trips:

The Coastkid went for some fine Midweek Trailrides.

Nick went running A Wander Down Glen Dye.

Italy. Dolomites. Snow. Skiing. Sun.

South Finland. Swamps. Snow. Pugsley. Overnighter.

I like Markus honest words about the West Highland Way. If you plan to walk this "trail", read this and reconsider.

Helen is teasing me with fine spring weather and Combing Coombs Dale.

The Wahweap Hoodoos = This Week's Recommended Read.

Dave's new blog theme is ace, and his Testing post is as well. Recommended Read II.

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Gear:

Chad made a video in which he looks at the Mont-Bell UL Down Inner Parka.

Dave did a review of the Hilleberg Unna tent.

Alan looks at the Alpkit Gourdon 25L daysack and suggests some useful modifications.

Mr. Turner doesn't have a Vimeo Pro account, which didn't stop him from making an almost 17 minutes video about Alcohol Stoves for Lightweights.

Finally, I did a Field Report on the Panasonic DMC-G2.

5 Questions, comments, observations:

  1. Thanks for mentioning my raffle

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  2. "Go figure that I have no motivation for winter activities anymore."

    Spot on, I look forward to Winter all year, but when it gets to this stage of shitty, filthy wet snow, I don't regret it ending, it's been a wonderful Winter and I'm just eager for all the dross to be cleared away.

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  3. The winter has been fantastic, but I could do without this dull greyness. And because of all the snow, I fear the forest won't dry up until May.

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  4. Thanks for mentioning my trip, Hendrik! Your week-in review seems to drive quite a lot traffic!

    Good news: I will very likely be able to send updates from Svalbard so you can follow our progress during the following three weeks. Check my blog if you are interested in updates from the ice.

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  5. As usual, great summary, and again, thanks for the mention dude!

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