Posts made by ddtrash

The Martin De Candre soap is very good, lathers easily and builds a nice foam cushion quickly. It should last a long time.

The smell is subtle and not overpowering which is good so it does not conflict with any aftershave you choose to use.

The only downside is the size of the jar opening, it is not quite as wide as the Saponificia Varesino tin jars. This makes working the brush into the top of the soap a bit more fiddly, nothing serious just obvious once you have got used to a larger jar aperture.

Just purchased some new shaving soap, trying the Martin De Candre Fougeres soap this time round. Will report back once I have my hands on it.

@Giles Only approached them to confirm the bag was not repairable. This was one of the insurance companies requests. Funnily enough the predictable answer was "no".

Depending on how the insurance fiasco develops I may well contact them and see if they could assist with the purchase of a new one.

@goosehd One of the beach towels got a bit chewed but no clothing fortunately. Nothing lost out the hole in the bag either.

We are trying to get some compensation out of the airline but you end up in a three ring circus with the insurance company also. The airline ask if you have insurance and the insurance company then ask if you have tried for compensation from the airline, and round and round you go until you get fed up and give up.

With bags of this size I would recommend where possible to drop them off at the oversized baggage collection point. Unfortunately you have no control of where the arrival airport choose to send your luggage, in our case it ended up on the conveyor and damaged.

I know there quite a few fans of the Ortlieb Tizip waterproof duffel and roller bags on the forum. This post may be of interest.

Unfortunately my 110 litre RS roller duffel got irreparably damaged during a international flight from Cagliaria (Sardinia) to Stanstead (UK).

Bag arrived with a large 20 x 10 cm hole tore out of the base.

The bag arrived on the carousel at Stanstead. Normally this bag gets delivered at the oversize baggage area of other airports I have used.

I suspect the carousel conveyor system it was forced through did the damage.

The base has a reinforced foam construction that just got chewed.

I was a bit surprised to be honest as the bag has so far proved pretty robust.

Replacements bag may either be the same type but smaller so if it did end up through the airport conveyor system, it would have less chance of getting stuck, snagged and torn? Or go for the pull out handle version of the bag called the RG. The RG version has the aluminium telescopic handle on the underside which may protect the base fabric a bit more?

Downside of the RG version is the bag weighs more which of course becomes part of your weight limit meaning less stuff you can take.
The RS was the best mix of light weight and size with wheels

Be careful out there!

@Mizmazzle Similar story, Graham Mac got my code retrospectively implemented immediately.

Glad the timings for the releases work out for you.

Looking forward to seeing fit pics of these on the various new owners.

@Mizmazzle Very similar story. My voucher code was also not recognised and I forgot to ask for a larger outlier size large.

Because these hot ticket items tend to sell so quickly inevitably there are going to be mistakes made at checkout.

I have e-mailed the IH team who can hopefully assist.

I am at work on night shift and set an alarm to get up to buy this shirt. Not ideal but most of the time (when not at work) I am spoiled living in the UK time zone. I feel sorry for you US and other overseas area customers, setting alarm clocks for releases must be a regular thing, probably deserves a thread all of it's own...

@FireGX @northsouthdenimguy I have had a mini ripple pair of 2030 Vibergs for at least 6 years, they are holding up nicely. They are worn in rotation of course but seem pretty hard wearing.

good pick up @Tago-Mago. Some of these foursquare releases are becoming collectable,...................................if you can keep the cork in the bottle. delicious stuff.

@Bridger just left Argentiere this morning 🥲

Have a good ski, hopefully you keep getting some new snow to fill in the bumps

Sad to leave the valley when this just happened🥲

I have just finished a nice week in Chamonix. I lived here for several seasons quite a few years ago now.

Weather was kind to us and we got some fresh snow. Was still able to do a couple of the steeper runs in the valley. My body can deal with a week these days rather than a full season.

I requested for another new driver.

Driver number 3. He got caught speeding on the motorway and asked me to pay his fine for him. I told him that I had not asked him to break the speed limit so would not be contributing to him paying his speeding ticket. We drove into the back streets of Cairo. The driver shouted up into a tenement block and a basket on rope was lowered down. The speeding ticket along with some cash was placed into the basket and the basket hauled up into the police chiefs apartment. Bung paid, the stamped ticket was returned and we carried on our way.

I requested for a new driver.

Driver number 2. One evening leaving work during rush hour we were confronted with a completely choked roundabout. Typically we needed the last exit on the roundabout. rather than join the flow of traffic and queue the driver proceeded to go against the oncoming traffic on the roundabout to get to the exit we needed as it was a shorter route.......

My most "interesting" driving experiences were from a short stint working in Cairo Egypt.

I had a driver assigned to me and on day one he missed the motorway exit and rather than drive to the next exit, he proceeded to slow down in the outside lane and pulled into a gap in the carriageway barrier. The gap between the barriers was sandy and the vehicle got stuck. The driver asked me to get out and push. I am now pushing a stuck in vehicle in the middle of a 4 lane (each way) motorway, with traffic whizzing past, so we could get onto the other side of the carriageway to retrace steps.

@Graeme I also like the carbon version, very handsome watch.

I would also, like you, assume it is for technical reasons they have not implemented a rotating bezel.

Bit of a shame really considering that Tudor have managed to manufacture a carbon case with a rotating bezel on the FXD Alinghi models.

Thanks to all the helpful comments @Giles @jordanscollected @mclaincausey. I think I am on the right track with either the 2 day Assault or the Dragon 2.0. I just need to decide which type of opening I would prefer.

I have been using a very nice 30 litre roll top climbing style sack from Black Diamond, the Street Creek 30.
While I am perfectly happy with the pack there is an annoying downside, other people struggle to close the top effectively.

When I travel offshore my bag is checked just like at a standard airport security check. However once the bag has gone through the scanner then you can not touch the bag again, it gets whisked off to the waiting helicopter. Medication and laptops have to be taken out the bag before being scanned and this causes the problems. The security staff are not great at rolling the top down sufficiently or cinching down the securing strap having put the laptop and medication back into the bag.
I am stuck behind a perspex security screen giving "gentle encouragement" for the staff to do the bloody thing up properly.

End result has been my stuff rolling around the heli deck of the rig as the bag is offloaded out of the luggage hold, not ideal at all.

A more foolproof design of bag closure would help.

I was hoping to gather some opinions from the luggage aficionado's here on the forum.....

I am looking to buy a new 25-30 litre day / overnight pack for travel. I have my eye on two Mystery Ranch products of a similar size, the 2 Day Assault pack and the Dragon 2.0. Both look like they could work very well for me. My current bag does not allow easy entry to the entire pack, this is something I would like.

The two Mystery Ranch packs main compartment access is achieved in different ways. The Assault pack uses their 3 way zipper design. The Dragon 2.0 uses a clamshell / flap opening design.

Does anyone have experience with these two opening designs and would care to offer an opinion as to which design they prefer and why?

Aesthetically the Dragon 2.0 looks a bit sleeker especially with the beavertail / Stick it panel removed. However as it is a joint Carryology product, the Dragon 2.0 is twice the price of the Assault pack.