Outdoor
Outdoor Clothing and Equipment
You rely on your outdoor equipment and outdoor clothing to keep you alive and comfortable when you are pushing yourself in the outdoors, so you should arm yourself with the best knowledge and the most appropriate equipment.
We select our staff carefully for their knowledge and experience and they in turn select our product range which is what they would choose to use on the hills, underground or out in the backcountry. So you can be sure that our range is the best for you as well.
Come in store for more advice, for the best walking boot fitting service, or to have a rucksack, rockshoe, trail running shoe, race vest or walking shoe personally fitted by our experts.
If you can't find exactly what you are looking for or if its something a bit more unique or niche then please get in touch and we will make sure you get what you need.
Delve deeper and you can choose from the following collections of top brands plus many more:
Bushcraft: Kelly Kettle, Light My Fire, Opinel, Robens, Snugpak, Solo Stove, Ticket to the Moon and Wolf and Grizzly.
Camping: Crux, Exped, Expedition Foods, Jetboil, Lightwave, MSR, Nordisk, Primus, Sea to Summit, Trangia, Vango, VauDe, Victorinox, Wayfayrer, Wild Country Tents and Western Mountaineering.
Caving: Alp Design, Beal, Climbing Technology, Fenix, Kong, Lyon, Petzl, Raumer and Warmbac.
Climbing: 8b+, Beastmaker, Betastick, Black Diamond, Boreal, ClimbOn!, DMM (made in Wales), Edelrid, Five Ten, Grivel, La Sportiva, Moon, Ocun, Pongoose, Scarpa, Tenaya, Totem and Wild Country.
Running: CEP, Clif Bar, High 5, Injinji, Inov8, Montane, Mountain King, Raidlight, Salt Stick, Scott, Tailwind, Ultimate Direction and VJ-Sport.
Travel: Aquapac, Beaton's, Julbo, Life Systems, Life Venture, Oakley, Ortlieb and Peli Cases.
Walking: Bestard, Camelbak, Compeed, Deuter, Exped, Granger's, Kahtoola, Keen, Klean Kanteen, Leki, Lowa, Lowe Alpine, Meindl, Nalgene, Nikwax, Oboz, Salewa, Salomon, Sidas, Silva, Source, Teva and Zamberlan.
and Clothing for each activity from: Bridgedale, Buff, Buffalo, Darn Tough, Icebreaker, Mammut, Marmot, Odlo, Outdoor Research, Patagonia, Rab, Sealskinz and Tilley.
Black Diamond
Rubber Tech Tips
Ideal for hard surfaces or rocky trails, the quiet, non-marking Black Diamond Rubber Tech Tips avoid rock and trail scarring, and offer excellent grip and durability. Works as replacement tip for the Spring 2012 and later only trekking poles and all model Z-poles. Does not work with First Strike, Trail Back, Syncline poles. Sold in pairs.
Pathfinder
Peak District - Outstanding Circular Walks
Uncover 28 beautiful circular walks around the Peak District with the OS Pathfinder Guidebooks, graded by length and ranging from 3 ½ to 11 ¼ miles. Make the most out of your next trip to the Peak District! The walks in this book include written directions, an extract of the OS map for the area, and some background on the history and natural environment you may see.
Primus
Aluminium Folding Windscreen
The Primus Aluminium Folding Windscreen is a windshield to protect the stove flame from being blown out in high winds, it is fantastic for those windy nights at camp when you just want your food without worrying about the flame of your stove blowing out every time a gust of wind comes by. It folds down to a compact size and, when unpacked, can sufficiently surround most single burner stove units.
Yorkshire Mountaineering Club
Yorkshire Gritstone Volume 1 - Almscliff to Slipstones
An inspirational and definitive rock climbing guidebook to the routes and bouldering of the north-eastern sector of Yorkshire Gritstone.
British Mountaineering Council
Cheshire & Merseyside Sandstone
The crags, quarries and bluffs of Cheshire and Merseyside sandstone have a charm and beautiful variety all their own. From the heights of Helsby to the pits of Pex, from Frogsmouth sport to Frodsham solos, it's all here.
Pod Climbing
Tarragona Climbs - Catalunya: Selected Sport Climbs in the Province of Lleida
Tarragona Climbs is a brand new selective guidebook to the one of the finest sport climbing venues in Europe: the Catalan province of Tarragona in Northwest Spain.
Harper Collins
Knots
A clear introduction to the world of knots, from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots. Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A practical guide for sailers, moutaineers and campers as well as those who would like to try their hand at more decorative knots.
Falcon Guides
Knots for the Outdoors
A fully illustrated guide describing all kinds of knots useful in the outdoor environment. Outdoor Knots is the latest in Falcon's popular Pocket Guide series and delivers relevant, expertly curated content in a convenient, travel-ready package. Outdoor skills expert and veteran author Cliff Jacobson provides readers with accessible information on choosing the best knot for the situation, tying different types of common knots and hitches, selecting the best kinds of rope, and much more.
Petzl
Torse
The Petzl Torse clips securely onto the back of your sit harness and loops up over your shoulders and holds the Croll in position. It offers a little more back support than "bra style" chest harnesses. It is easily adjustable before a pitch or to fit different sizes of caver.
Crack Addicts
Morocco Rock - Jebel El Kest & Taskra North
Chase the winter sun and head to Africa for your next climbing adventure! This is your indispensible guidebook to climbing in and around Jebel el Kest and Taskra North in the Anti-Atlas region of Morocco and lists in excess of 1000 routes across 100 crags! This includes multiday adventures to roadside single pitch crags at a variety of grades, so no matter who you are you will find plenty of stuff to suit.
Michel Piola
Mont Blanc Massif: Envers des Aiguilles - Requin, Envers des Aiguilles, Montenvers
The Envers des Aiguilles covers a wealth of fantastic alpine rock climbing around the Requin Hut, the Envers des Aiguilles Hut and the banks of the Mer de Glace.
Michel Piola
The Aiguilles Rouges 1: Opposite Mont Blanc - From the Brevent to the Chezerys Slabs
A new guide to the rock routes in the popular Aiguilles Rouges situated on the southern side of the Chamonix Valley.
Editions Constant
Snow and Mixed Climbs: Ecrins East, Cerces, Queyras, Vol 1 - 344 routes Alpinism and Ski Mountaineer
A new guide covering the Cerces and Queyras and the first of its kind to this area - 344 routes are described including straight-forward snow 'plods', mixed climbs of all grades and the classic mountaineering routes of the area; the guide also describes the ski-mountaineering available in the area.
Rockfax
France Languedoc - Roussillon
France : Languedoc-Roussillon covers the extensive and fertile climbing area west of Haute Provence. The areas covered largely surround the beautiful Parc National des Cévennes, but also includes crags that are close to the cities of Nimes and Avignon. Some areas have been climbed on for generations; others are still very much in development, all will leave you hungry for more.
Vertebrate Publishing
Mountaineering in the Mont Blanc Range: Classic Snow, Ice & Mixed Climbs
Mountaineering in the Mont Blanc Range showcases the most beautiful lower grade snow, ice and mixed climbs (F to AD+) in the seemingly inexhaustible Mont Blanc Range. The routes described in this book should be within the capabilities of almost all mountaineers.
Idea Montagna
Mont Blanc: Clasic & Plaisir
A guide to the Mont Blanc Massif decribing 67 routes, rock, ice and mixed, in the middle grades (up to F6a). The guide is fully illustrated throughout with both full colour photo-topos and excellent hand-drawn topos, it is packed with great action shots and has a good selection of approach and over-view maps.