Expert Camping Gear Reviews & Advice
If you’ve ever spent a soggy Tuesday evening on a campsite in the Lake District, hunched over a hissing stove that refuses to boil water, the odds are good your camping gas regulator was to blame — not the weather (although, to be fair, the weather certainly wasn’t helping). Gas regulators camping setups rely on … Read more
There’s a particular kind of frustration that only campers know. You’re standing in a soggy field somewhere in the Lake District, the wind is horizontal, and your stove — that cheerful little device you’ve trusted for years — refuses to light. Not because it’s broken. Because the Camping Gaz refill you bought last summer turned … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that hits about thirty seconds before the kettle should be boiling: the flame sputters, sighs, and dies, and you realise your gas has chosen this exact moment — drizzling, dim, somewhere outside Pitlochry — to give up. Propane cylinders camping kit doesn’t get much glory. Nobody photographs their gas … Read more
There’s an old camping cliché: spend your money on the big things, save on the small ones. Tent, sleeping bag, boots — yes. Gas canister? Surely just gas is gas, right? Wrong. Profoundly, inconveniently wrong. The value camping gas canisters market is cluttered with options that look identical on the shelf but behave very differently … Read more
You’ve packed the tent, wrestled the sleeping bag into its stuff sack, and somehow managed to cram four days’ worth of questionable weather gear into a 65-litre rucksack. Then you reach the campsite, pull out your shiny new stove — and realise you’ve bought the wrong gas canisters camping. The burner won’t connect. It’s raining. … Read more