Field testing my new homemade hobo stove. This is a great bit of kit. Its best with the opening facing a breeze so the fire can be fed with oxygen. It was relatively easy to light with the Tinder sticks, or 'Maya' sticks. When feathered these light quickly and burn with a fierce flame. I took along my own wood to get the fire going but used birch bark and local twigs as tinder.

Induction at Newburn Climbing Wall. As a development of a strength and conditioning program based around primal, evolutionary movement skills, the hunter gatherer activities evolutionary biology designed us for. Great facility. The auto belay took a surprising amount of bottle to sit into at the top.