Charlie enters the outdoor scene

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Hello, I’m Charlie, 25 years of age and I’ve been working at Webtogs for nearly 2 years. I started work as a warehouse operative just for pre Christmas help in September 2009 and have, through persistent ear bashing, made a more permanent job for myself here. So now I’m Webtogs Website Manager and loving it. I’m not just saying that, I do genuinely love coming to work and all the guys we work with are great fun, I think it would be hard to find another work place which is as dynamic and intuitive as this one (plus I live 3 mins walk away so they know where I am if I’m ever late).

Now, Webtogs, as an official retailer of Outdoor Clothing, Equipment and Footwear, are obviously pro-outdoors and I to be honest have never had much experience of camping or hiking, mainly because I love the snow. I have previously focused most of my energy on disappearing off to the Alps on that eternal quest for virgin powder and have on occasion found it. As far as I am concerned it’s worth every penny, believe you me. I’ve completed a couple of ski seasons in Italy and Switzerland and the passion still burns from within, but now it has to fit in with work holidays so no bumming off for a season here and a season there anymore – work beckons and this has opened new doors to the adrenaline fuelled outdoor entertainments.

I play hockey for our local team a few times a week and have a friend who teaches at King’s Bruton, where I used to attend. They are paying for him to get all his Mountain Leader Safety courses and complete all the necessary exams needed so he can take the pupils off to train for the Ten Tors and Duke of Edinburgh awards. So I suggested that he take me with him whenever he decides to go off to remote parts of our glorious countryside. We only decided this last week and this blog is going to give you guys, if anybody reads this, the chance to see my progress in grabbing a foothold in the hiking world.

Just to give you the heads up on where I stand at the moment I don’t even own a backpack or walking boots so it’s going to be an epic journey I think. Oh, and I had an email through from the dude I play hockey with, we’ll call him ‘Bob’ for now as I haven’t asked him if he’d mind being plastered over the interweb yet, I probably won’t either so Bob will stick, anywho, the email It said… drum roll please……”I am also seriously considering climbing Mt Blanc next year in the summer so that would be something to maybe work towards. I think that you would love it and it would be a chance for you to try the kit out first hand.”

Oh dear, so now I’ve literally been roped into climbing a mountain? Instead of skiing down mountains I’m going to be climbing them – I have one ace up my sleeve though, Webtogs do happen to stock some pretty gnarly gear which means I’ll be well stocked up for the tasks in hand wherever they may be! There is one thing I do know, It’s going to be a bloody steep learning curve.

Have fun reading about my progress and I’m sure there will be some photos arriving soon of my first baby steps into the Great Unknown that is the British Countryside.

Thanks, bye. C

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