Alpkit SkyeHigh 400 - Tested  Price: £65 Weight: 1020 grammes (stuffsack 100g) Features: Goose down sleeping bag with 400 grammes of 90/10 650+ European

Two interesting new, customer-friendly initiatives from Alpkit in the form of the Alpkit Demo Tent scheme, which broadly does what it says on the canvas, and a price-match pledge on its range of down-filled SkyeHigh sleeping bags.Alpkit Demo Tent

start at around £70 for the vest version and go up toaround £130 for the lush hooded Microlight Alpine. More at www.rab.uk.com Sprayway Outlaw Half-Zip It may not look particularly exciting in pictures,but the Outlaw

are available in four versions; 400, 600, 800and 1000 in regular length only. However they'll soon also ship in-20cm short and +20cm long versions, the longer one for lanky folkwill set you back an extra fiver. Prices range from £65 for the 400, through to £110