We’re looking for a Customer Service star….

Gareth    Customer Services, Gareth     Customer Services, Gareth, Job

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and diligent customer services representative who can deal with all aspects of customer interaction via, Telephone, Skype and E mail. The ideal candidate will have a never say die attitude to ensuring customer satisfaction, and have a serious attention to detail. As an internet company we would welcome someone who has a good understanding of the internet, computers plus a passion for the outdoors. Attractive Salary, training and discounts on all our gear offered. If you are reading this and interested, please mail your CV to g@webtogs.com in the first instance with a covering letter telling us why you would be great for the job!

The old Walking Gang come down

Gareth    Gareth, General Outdoor    

It’s been a fantastic couple of weekends out and about recently. Most of Webtogs have just returned from a trip to the Alps to traverse the Vallee Blanche – more about that at a later date with the photos. The weekend before last though saw my old walking Gang come down from London. I can honestly say I do not miss London one bit, but what we do miss about the place is our friends, so it was lovely to see them all. For all the routes we go on over the coming weeks, although we can’t upload an OS map which is what we use to plan a walk, we’ll upload a google map route instead which you can see below. All you need to do is grab your OS Map and transfer the key points we have marked and voila, you’ll be able to stroll in our steps.

View Berwick St John round walk via Ebbesbourne Wake in a larger map

Not having had a decent yomp for a while, I decided to head out to an area we had not explored before, namely the downs on the other side of shaftesbury heading along to the badges at Fovant. We didn’t actually get that far this time as starting at Berwick St John, we folowed the path up on to the Wiltshire downs. The day started with what my fellow walker Andy calls Mizzle, it’s like drizzle only more misty and we were soon suitably moist but not uncomfortable as the day was still quite warm. Berwick St John is stunning, the villages in between the downs being quite beautiful, with narrow lanes and a forgotten air about them.

Reaching the top, the Sun, slowly started to play a bit of hide and seek with us, more hiding than seeking to start off with. We came across a couple of green laners who usual inspire ire in all of us but these guys actually parked on the side to let us all through which put us in an unusually good humour. Coming off the hills and down to Ebbesbourne Wake, the village welcomed us with thatch cottages, verdant lawns and houses that looked like they had come from a film set. We finally got to the lunchtime pub called the Horeshoe . Decent beer, a timeless feel and no nonsense food soon had us on our way for the afternoon on the top of Cranborne Chase.

The afternoon saw us going heading up the Ox Drove track back to Berwick St John, the Sun gracing us a little more before we stumbled tired and satisfied back in to Berwick St John for the drive back to Gillingham.

New Facebook page live

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We’re now live and direct on facebook so come say hello to us. We promise not to bite and we do promise to show you all our new videos, piccies and musings!

Paddle to your tent but mind the Bees….

Gareth    Gareth, General Outdoor, Uncategorized    

Well what a lovely summer we are having. What’s that? You disagree? Better head over to Webtogs to get stocked up on waterproofs then, the lad below wishes he had!

Despite the rain, there has been some brief moments of happiness. Helping one of our friends move house last weekend revealed a hidden treasure in the shape of a bumble bees nest. We had to dismantle his shed when we heard an all consuming buzzing starting to come from below the right corner of the floor. Dreading the fact it could be wasps, we gingerly lifted the final boards to reveal the bees nest below. I had never seen one up so close before, watching such fantastic animals who have had such a hard time of viruses and our polution recently was awesome. The colour of these bees was really vivid, a jet black front giving rise to a burnished organge at the tail. Suffice to say we covered them gently back up afterwards with some spare wood and left them to bumble about their business with large grins on our faces.

More nutty Kayakers

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This has to be seen to be believed, Tyler Bradt breaking the worlds biggest waterfall jump, we salute you sir.!

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.