Archives: Glossary

If you need our hire gear for a few more days, that’s not a problem. We charge 10% of the hire price for each extra

An idiosyncratic Tasmanian concept required by the island’s four-seasons-in-one-hour weather extravaganza. Gail understands it to mean that in order to get through a day you

Judgement meal (compound noun): defined as the meal by which all other dishes served at a place are judged. As follows: Ian: Chicken larb at

Ian spent his youth trying to pick bugs out of his dinner while gnashing a cylindrical torch between his teeth, so he’s a believer. Given

Our hire kit contains: blister dressings, tweezers (for splinters), scissors (to cut bandages and adhesive strips etc), blister dressings, safety pins, latex gloves, crepe bandage

Many – but not all – sleeping bags comply with the EN13537 test (updated in recent years to ISO 23537-1:2016), a European standard for sleeping

Dehydrated pasta? Is that a thing? Actually, yes. Cooking and then dehydrating pasta reduces the amount of water required to produce the final dish out

(from our procrastinating hideout: Giphy)

Gail says – as in, humans and other fauna. But if my jacket self-breathes, it must therefore be alive, and ewwww. Ian rolls his eyes