The Coleman Exponent Avior X-1 Three Season One-Man Tent Review

The Coleman Exponent Avior X-1

The Coleman Exponent Avior X-1 Three Season One-Man Tent is a great little tent. It's light at just a little over a kilo, so it's great for backpacking and its fairly cheap. If you want to use it for solo backpacking, it's great as you have plenty of room to sleep in and keep all your gear inside!

DIY Alcohol Stove

For hiking, camping, biking, boating, Scouting, RV-ing - used by homeless, survivalists, search & rescue, disaster and third world relief.

This plan is human ingenuity at its very finest. For the cost of a few sodas, you can build yourself a camping stove like no other... lots of scientific data to back up the claim that it's the best travel stove for any money.

I built the alcohol stove last summer and used it on extensively on camping trips all over the country. It worked every time, 100% of the time, rain or shine. It is the perfect stove, especially for international use. If it gets confiscated at security, it takes about 30 minutes to make a new one. Fuel can always be found. Simmers perfectly.

Last year I posted the original instructions for a stove that I had been developing for years - one that is dependable, safe, lightweight, fast, efficient, but is still simple to make and use. This site documents the response to the first alcohol stove that is good enough to compete with gas stoves and keep canisters out of landfills. It will bake scones, or simmer a pot of real rice for 20 minutes with 2/3 oz., and make tea for two with 1/2 oz..

The MSR Dragonfly Stove Review

The MSR Dragonfly Stove

I have had my eye on a petrol stove for a while, as I have used gas stoves before and have some issues with these. Their performance in the cold can be poor, and of course you are always trying to gauge how full the gas bottles are and how many to take. I though a petrol stove would solve all these problems, although I was not so sure. I have heard they are noisy difficult to simmer with and on occasion temperamental.

After some research, I got my hands on an MSR Dragonfly because of the good things I heard about it (a good simmer control, and a good reliable stove).

The Victorinox Forester SAK Review

The Victorinox Forester SAK

Victorinox has a highly-functional lock-blade design in its larger folding knives. Cutting out the clutter of redundant blades, nail files, magnifying glasses and other such non-essentials, the Forester knife is left with a fairly long, very sharp single usable blade, a small saw, a corkscrew, awl, can opener, bottle opener, and slotted screwdriver (and, of course, the ubiquitous toothpick and tweezers, which I might add are handier than you would think).

The MSR Miniworks Water Filter Review

The MSR Miniworks Water Filter

This is without a doubt the best filter for anyone planning on attacking a major hiking trip. The bottom screws onto my MSR Drommlite bag and my Nalgene bottle. It is long lasting and easy to clean if you ever get to that point.You only have to clean the outside of the filter, and only use clean water to do so. Soap is a cloggy substance and will be unforgiving to the carbon granules inside the element.

GSI Outdoors Lexan Drive Bottle- Apricot Orange

GSI Outdoors Lexan Drive Bottle- Apricot Orange

This was given to me as a freebie when I purchased my tent and my stove some time ago. Immediately I was curious as it seemed a bit fragile. I personally have used a couple of Nalgene Bottles before, and this is something new that I just have to try it.

Casio Pathfinder PAG40B-2V Review

The Casio Pathfinder PAG40B-2V

Talk about the Casio Pathfinder PAG40B-2V. It's a very, very good watch if you're looking into buying something that you will use for a very long period of time. I've had mine since 2000, and I must say, aside from replacing the batteries every 2-3 years (depending on usage), it hasn't had anything repaired on it yet. Of course there are some minor scratches, but the triple sensor system is magnificent! It's almost like having a weather station attached to your wrist! The only thing you're missing with the Casio Pathfinder is a GPS feature.

Mount Daguldul Climb

San Juan Batangas is 115 kilometers from Manila, a two to three hours drive depending on traffic situation and routes taken. When commuting, there are two options to get there. The first, common and easiest way to get there is via Lipa Batangas. From Manila you can take either Lipa, Cuenca, Batangas City or Lucena bound buses. From Lipa bus terminal (Big Ben, Jolibee, Mc Donalds) take a tricycle ride to the Lipa City Public Market. From the main road, CM Recto corner Mercury Drug Lipa is where jeepneys plying San Juan Batangas passes by. Alight at the San Juan Batangas Public Market (Petron Gas Station). From that road, the second corner is where jeepneys plying Barangay Hugom waits for passengers. The second option is via Batangas City. From Batangas City there are jeepneys and buses plying San Juan Batangas.