. For the price ofa cramped, lightweight backpacking tent, you could buy a mobilemansion with four or five bedrooms, enough space to park a largeestate car in the porch and still have change to buy a five-burnergas range and camp furniture. Not fair...Mild Camping

We couldn't resist this ideal accessory for mild campingafficianados everywhere, the new Vango Carpet range desiged tofit Vango's family tents...Not just a checked pattern of unimaginable loveliness, the carpetsare made from sumptuous woven Nylon

A few years back, I kind of invented the term 'Mild Camping' as a sort of counterpoint to 'Wild Camping' - the idea is that it's a sort of half-way house between backpacking-style ultra-lightweightness, that looks ridiculous when conducted straight

Mild Camping - The BasicsWhat's 'mild camping' then? Well, it's kind of the opposite of wild camping. Not full-on family tents and table and sofas stuff, but an embracing of the concept of a bit of extra luxury when you're car camping for the week

Out right about now are second editions of the stormingly successful Cool Camping guidesto both Scotlandand Walescomplete with over 50 brand new camp sites.The first Cool Camping title was published back in 2006 and the serieshas become alarmingly

Every so often I'm stricken by a desperate need to have aneditorial rant and, you'll be glad to know, today is the day...So what's the rant about? Fit, that's what, or more specifically,outdoor clothing fit. Could someone please tell me why so muchoutdoor clothing has enough spar...

Mild camping just got a little bit milder courtesy of the Nemo Tuo Luxury sleeping pad that just turned up, an innovative bit of kit that takes the self-inflating mat basics and refines them into what's possible the comfiest sleeping mat we've ever

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One for mild camping fans here with the news that Robertshas launched the first solar-powered digital radiomeaning you can chill out to DAB on the camp site without munchingyour way through disposable batteries.The new 'solarDAB' doesn't actually

Mildly diverting stuff from the Altitude Everest Expedition sitewhere there's a short clip of Conrad Anker dressed in 1924replica clothing on the North Col of Everest.Anker, complete with period oxygen cylinders, comments that 'it'sgreat fun' and