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First blog by Helen Lloyd from ‘takeonafrica’

June 25th, 2009 Comments

Helen Lloyd is one determined woman, and we at webtogs are priveliged to help her out during her African adventure over the next couple of years. For an overview of Helen’s journey and to appreciate her simply wonderful photography go to www.takeonafrica.com
Out biking round Dorset a couple of weekends ago, making the most of the [...]

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Thats my summer holiday to Switzerland cancelled…..

April 29th, 2009 Comments

Well this is my summer holiday out then. I’ll get me coat

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The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show 2009

February 9th, 2009 Comments

March sees the annual return of The Ordnance Survey Outdoors Show at the NEC Birmingham. The 2009 guess speakers have now been announced.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Know too many as the “World’s Greatest Living Explorer “, Fiennes was the first man to reach the South and North Pole by surface travel. More recently in 2003 he completed [...]

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What’s the warmest fleece material these days?

December 12th, 2008 Comments

In response to James Penmans great question, on our Ask The Expert section:
Like most things in outdoor these days, the insulation or fleece layer is split between organic and synthetic products.
By far the most popular is synthetic fleece, which makes up a good 80% of the product used on the hill in the UK and [...]

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Icebreaker launches itunes competitor - Ewetunes.

December 3rd, 2008 Comments

You have to give credit to the Icebreaker team for this one - Ewetunes is a neat little site that let’s you drag and drop sheep in a field to create a series of christmas related tunes and send them to your friends. It’s hilarious!
When you’ve finished your masterpiece, revel in the glory and [...]

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Marmot Base-layers appear on Channel 5’s Gadget Show

November 12th, 2008 Comments

Got a head-us up today to note that the gadget show did a technical challenge around base-layer technical garments recently, and uploaded their video to the gadget show site here. Forward it to around 6:50m to see the actual segment

What was definitely of interest is that they covered the Marmot base layers and gave [...]

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