Ken Hughes

It’s been around 8 months since I purchased my Berghaus Sullivan GoreTex outer shell jacket and things have gone pretty well. My original requirements when looking for a jacket were :- 3 Layer Goretex (heavy duty) Just an outer shell (none of this 18 jackets in one nonsense) Able to cope with the typical demands [...]

Well, I finally reached the halfway point (in fact I passed it by one) of “munrobagging” (reaching the summit of all 284 of Scotland’s munros – mountains over 3000ft). I left work in Reading, UK at 6pm on Thursday night, drove until 1:30am when I reached Crianlarich Youth Hostel and met my brother Dougie (needed [...]

Saturday 15th April – drove from Rothesay (we were visiting for the Easter weekend) to Inveruglas to do Ben Vane and Ben Ime. It starts with a pleasant (if it wasn’t raining) 3K walk along the road towards the Dam and then turns off, over a bridge to the left. After a couple of hundred [...]

I popped out at lunchtime to by my brother’s Christmas present. I went to Cotswold Camping, I’ve always been a great fan of them (and Field and Trek), ever since my Army days getting me a 10% discount. I had noticed from their website that they are selling the Berghaus Sullivan III jacket at the [...]

Whilst researching waterproof mitts, I came across this great feature on Outdoor Design’s Fitzroy Mitt Flocking patchallows for nose secretion management All through my life my mother / girlfriend / wife have been telling me to STOP wiping my nose on my sleeve, now these guys are giving me free reign !! I have been [...]

Well I beat my record. This weekend I drove from Newbury, Berkshire to Argyll, Scotland to do some ‘munro baggging’ with my brother.It’s a 400 mile journey that I expected to do in around 7 hours. I ended up driving for 10 hours each way. The weather was pretty miserable so we didn’t get anything [...]