Down jacket

This week, the down jacket; this jacket is part of the Rab 8000 m range. This jacket will primarily used when we stop for breaks and stetting up camp. There are eight huge pockets, so plenty of room for camera, I-pod, and food. It will be important to keep anything electronic warm along the journey, as the cold strips any battery power. Also the hood is fantastic; I’d say that this jacket is better than most sleeping bags that I have owned.
Which brings me to “The weather” Found a site today, giving details from around the world. http://weather.weatherbug.co.uk/ looking just before I wrote this the temperature in Greenland is, - high -18 low -20.
Looking forward to meeting our guide in a couple of weeks, it will be great to actually get a training programme so that we can see some progress.
Have got e-mails coming in all the time, it is hard trying to do your regular job, and also all the work for the trip. Hopefully it will all settle down after we have had the first training weekend and we will know exactly what we are doing.
Take care for now.

Stove.

Hello again folks,
Things are really getting a little bit bonkers at the moment! There is so much going on. Had a reply from one of my begging e-mails this week, Furtec ( http://www.furtech.co.uk ) have very generously agreed to give me one of their Claw jackets to use on the crossing.
Spoke to Charlie Patton, and he will be coming down to meet us in a couple of weeks, so will be able to sort out the final kit list, and training programme.
This weeks bit of kit is the stove. The M.S.R. Ex, as with most things in this kind of trip, you have to go with the best that you can afford. I bought this stove last year; it is the latest in their line of multi-fuel stoves. These stoves are a delight in their simplicity, as you hardly need any tools to strip them down (my titanium spoon is made by the same people, and has all the spanner heads needed to undo all the nuts as part of the handle). The stove runs on just about any liquid fuel that you can get your hands on, but white gas (naptha) is best. Also, I will be taking along my old M.S.R. Wisperlite stove, as a spare if the Ex gets damaged beyond repair.
Sorry about not putting a picture of the sleeping bag on the last post, but I up-loaded it to the server, but for some reason it never made it to the site.