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.
Scottish Mountaineering Trust
Skye Scrambles
The guide describes not only scrambles, but also walks and some easier rock climbs. It is the definitive guidebook to scrambling on Skye and as such it is also an essential guide for any hillwalkers wishing to venture into the mountains of The Cuillin.
Scottish Mountaineering Club
Scottish Winter Climbs
A superb full-colour guide to the finest winter climbs in Scotland. The second edition of this indispensible guidebook to winter climbing has been fully updated and expanded to detail over 900 of the finest winter climbs in Scotland, with the emphasis on the popular lower and mid-grade classics.
Scottish Mountaineering Club
Ben Nevis: Rock & Ice Climbs
Authored by Simon Richardson, this comprehensive guidebook covers a wide area from Ben Nevis and Aonach Mor to Creag Meagaidh and the Central Highlands.
Cicerone
Walking The West Highland Way
Guidebook to walking the West Highland Way National Trail, a 95 mile Scottish long-distance route from Milngavie near Glasgow to Fort William, passing Loch Lomond and crossing Rannoch Moor. Suggested itineraries over 6 to 9 days. Includes accommodation guide and pull-out 1:25K OS map booklet.
British Mountaineering Council
Eastern Gritstone: Froggatt to Black Rocks - The Definitive Guide
Rock Climbing Guide- Froggatt to Black Rocks, England Peak District. The stretch from Curbar and Froggart in the north to the black rocks in the south, is a fantastic selection of varied gritstone rock.
British Mountaineering Council
Staffordshire Gritstone: The Roaches - The Definitive Guide
Paperback. A 2009 edition of the rock climbing and bouldering guidebook on Staffordshire grit. It covers the Roaches; Hen Cloud; Ramshaw Rocks; Newstones to Black Forest; the Churnet; and outlying crags.
Rockfax
Eastern Grit
This guide covers one of the most popular climbing areas in Britain. Major crags include, Stanage, Burbadge and Millstone.
Vertebrate Publishing
Peak District Bouldering
The most comprehensive guide to bouldering in the Peak District ever published - This guide features over 3,300 boulder problems on over 70 crags, both major and minor all around the Peak District, catering for boulderers of all abilities.
Rockfax
Peak NE Pokketz - Selected routes in the lower grades
This book provides a compact and low cost introduction to the brilliant climbing found in the NE Peak Area. It is presented in the same clear and easy-to-follow style that make Rockfax publications but it has been stripped down to give just the essentials required by many climbers.
Rockfax
Peak SE Pokketz - Selected routes in the lower grades
Together with Peak NE , Peak SE Pokketz from Rockfax is a great introduction to climbing in the Peak District, both on Gritstone and Limestone. The routes covered represent the very best on offer in the grade range up to HVS - there are even a few E1's and E2's to whet your appetite.
Supertopo
Yosemite Big Walls
The Bible for Big Wall climbing in Yosemite Valley.
Supertopo
Yosemite Valley Free Climbs
Yosemite Valley Free Climbs has over 230 of the best routes in Yosemite Valley, from 16-pitch multi-pitch trad climbs to one pitch sport routes.
Cicerone
Lake District Winter Climbs
Lake District Winter Climbs is a new guide to winter climbing in the English Lake District. It is the definitive guide compiled by the Fell and Rock Club. Lake District Winter Climbs also includes sections on winter equipment, winter climbing and conservation, climbing walls, and accommodation and a first ascent list that includes masses of interesting historical research.
John Gillham
Scrambles & Easy Climbs Lake District
Scrambles & Easy Climbs in the Lake District is about the appreciation of rock, the exhilaration of climbing, and the sheer pleasure of doing it in some of the most beautiful places on earth.
Fell and Rock Climbing Club
Langdale
Langdale is without a doubt one of the finest of the Lakeland valleys and is easily reached from the M6 motorway; the climber is well catered for with pubs, cafes and campsites. One downside of its popularity with walkers and climbers is that its car parks tend to fill up very quickly on a sunny morning. As a large proportion of the crags facing south the valley is an all year round venue.
Cicerone
Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites: Vol 2 Southern Dolomites, Brenta and Lake Garda
Guidebook to 77 via ferrata routes in the Italian Dolomites in the southern regions, Brenta and Garda. Part of a two-volume set of guides to the Dolomite via ferratas. There are graded routes covering 14 mountain groups including the Civetta, around Trento and the Adige valley, with guidance on the best base for each of the via ferrata routes.