Pilgrims progress

Gareth    Footwear    

Helen Lloyd, our ‘takeonafrica’ adventurer is well on her way through europe and is currently enjoying the perils of paella in Spain where the weather has just got to be better than here! look her up on the link

Ohhhh – shiny new product videos

Gareth    Clothing, Footwear, Gareth     Gareth, Mica, Targhee, video

We have been busy out and about in the woods and have added a couple of product videos to the website that you can view below. I’m wearing my shiny new Mica jacket which has made my summer so far awesome. We’ve also posted up a review on our Targhee II’s as well.

Dean Karnazes – the fittest man in the world?

Gareth    Clothing, Footwear, General Outdoor, Planning, Uncategorized    

I was out running around my new home town of Shaftesbury – which is pretty hilly to say the least, but after warming down, stretching etc (not!) but I did have a shower and a packet of crisps! Anyway, idly surfing/searching (working) the web for a local running club later that evening I came upon this truly amazing character.  Needless to say, I have put away my cheese and onion six pack and trying even harder to sprint up Gold Hill (the one from the Hovis advert) to the cafe at the top, mmm – Dorset clotted cream teas’ …

Newport H2 in action

Gareth    Footwear, Gareth, General Outdoor     Gareth, Newport, Newport H2, Nick Parks, Vietnam

Another update from Nick after his first report back to us – we challenged the fact that he was using his Newport Sandals as we didn’t get any pics. So he sent us a couple which you can see below.

“Things are warming up for the our film crew here in Vietnam as we get close to the start of our shoot. So it was a welcome break for me to shower and cool off in one of the beautiful gorges here and a chance to really test my Keen sandals. Well I have to report they stood up superbly giving me great grip in the raging torrent and the confidence i needed to execute our stunt rehearsals”

We’ve stopped asking him currently as we are all completely jealous! Suffice to say, we think he is road testing them fully now

Dead keen on Keen

Gareth    Footwear, Gareth, General Outdoor     Gareth, Keen, webtogs

Over at Webtogs HQ, we all love KEEN. I’m just looking around right now and 4 people in the office have them all on! Although they are a major US brand, they’re still scrappy newcomers in the UK. With this in mind, we wanted to do something a little different and from this week we are offering a 30 day comfort guarantee.

So How does it work I here you ask? Well if you buy a pair of Keen shoes, sandals or boots from Webtogs and you don’t think they are the most comfortable shoes you have ever had, we give you 30 days from the date they arrive with you to send them back to us. The key difference – you can send them back having used them. Yup, you read that right! As soon as we get them back, we’ll refund your payment card for the full purchase price you paid. We don’t, however, refund any delivery charges, or the carbon offset if you elected to pay it.

The catch is….well……there honestly isn’t one! The only thing you need to do is make sure they are clean when you send them back to us. We’re not talking brand new clean, but they do need to be free of any loose soil / mud / sand / other things!. This is actually a health & safety requirement and not us being afraid of a bit of dirt! One other thing, you can only use this guarantee once. This is an addition to our current returns policy. All of the normal ZERO hassle features you know and love are totally unaffected by this guarantee.

We don’t offer this guarantee on any other brand of footwear (or anything else, for that matter). It’s not that we don’t love our other brands, but they are all well established in the UK. We’re on a mission to spread the KEEN message as far and wide as we can. We hope that this extra guarantee will convince a few more people to try KEEN for the first time. If they’re like our current KEEN customers, we won’t be seeing too many returns! The full details of the guarantee are here and all our keen products can be viewed here.