Thank you for generously sharing your thoughts on your gear. Helps a lot to get proper field tested gear insights. The AAWT is a decent testing ground for gear.

Thoroughly enjoying your perspective on this. It's giving me some insight for planning my month of hiking in Tassie. Just a heads up, Tier Gear have passed on the manufacturing of the Quenda quilts, Boodie Down Blankets, and rain skirts to Zero G Gear in the Southern Highlands, NSW. They've been collaborating and he's hoping to be ready to make the Quenda Quilts in the next month or so. Tearloch (Zero G) sounds like a great guy.

Great video and great series. Thanks for the gear review- it helps all of us refine our gear. Any hope of a food review? Disregard -just heard the end of your vid. Looking forward to the log side of things video.

Check out the NZ Natural Clothing polyprop/possum fur fingerless gloves. Can combine with merino glove liners and/or overmitts. Fingerless gloves with flip mitten covers also work great in snow. The old Bridgedale Trail socks rocked. I think they called Hike now.

thanks for that - always helpful to hear the experience of others. On cold hands - I've found the combination of a pair of cheap light gloves (Kathmandu, I think) with a pair of waterproof lightweight Montaine overmits works well.

Thoroughly enjoyed your documentation of the journey. Good informative daily summaries. Thanks for your efforts.

What I do for my head torch is I keep a little bit of electrical tape covering one of the contacts so it can't discharge. Far from ideal though.

I've just returned from a failed attempt at the Scottish National Trail, so my ears perked up at the mention of Rab gear and visits to Scotland. Did you do any big hikes over there?