New for Old competition winners!

Gareth    General Outdoor     competition, new for old competition

Wow – we have been amazed by the entries in our new for old competition. We were bowled over by the quality, the stories and history behind the gear you have loved (and abused!)

Judging such entries proved a lot tougher than we first thought, with some seriously deserving cases in there. We cogitated and deliberated however to finally come up with a winner, and a runner up as well, as deciding between the two proved tough!

First up, the runner up. Mary Pollard sent in this picture of her Teddy wrapped in her Berghaus raincoat circa 1980ish. It is we think a lightning, one of the first Gore-Tex coats that were available for sale here in the UK. So not only is the Teddy cute, but the jacket is a piece of outdoors clothing history!

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The Winner however are these boots from Kevin Woods. We are frankly amazed that he is actually still walking in his Meindl Burma Pros. The rubber rand has pretty much worn totally away, and the leather has completely split on the sides. Couple that with the fact the toe has worn away to reveal the Gore-tex on the left hand boot, and we knew we had our most deserving winner! All we can say is that it is a testament to Meindl’s build quality that they are still going.

So a huge congratulations to them both, Kevin will be getting a new pair of Burmas and Mary some goodies, but we have also sent a thank you to everyone who entered. Stay tuned for our next competition on facebook for the chance to win gear EVERY week this summer!

Easter Competition

Gareth    Gareth, General Outdoor     competition, Easter, Gareth

Well we have had a twitter competition, so I reckon it’s time for a blog competition!

Pride of place we have here is a brand new North Face Doormat to make you the envy of all your neighbours or to take with you as the ultimate stylish accessory for your tent when welcoming you home after a hard day on the hill. We’ve combined this with a Victorinox Pen knife, Frisbee, Sit Mat and a base layer of your choice to the value of £30 from the site to help your Easter start with a bunny like spring.

What do you have to do to win this selection of goodies? Well all you have to do is to detail your favourite camp food recipe in the comments below. This could be anything from your favourite one pan dish to a rehydrated cordon bleu goodness idea. The winner will be the person who tickle our taste buds the most.

Now where’s my apron……..

Twitter Icebreaker Giveaway

Gareth    eCommerce     competition, draw, icebreaker, men, merino, prize, retweet, rock, rockzip, twitter, webtogs, women, zip

UPDATE: Competition entry closed at end of Jan and we have a winner! Congratulations to Ian Moore who is on twitter as @idmoore. We’ll launch a new competition in the last week of Feb.

Right, so it’s time to start our first Twitter contest and we’d like to start with one of the coolest brands right now “Icebreaker”. The aim is to do a competition every single month from now on and we’ll also be offering some exclusive ones just for existing followers.

We’re giving away one of the following this month (draw ends Friday 30th Jan 2009):

An Icebreaker Rock Zip Fleece Top – Women
OR
An Icebreaker Rock Zip Fleece Top – Men

Want to win one? All you have to do is the following:

• Follow @webtogs on twitter
• Simply tweet “Just entered to win a cool Icebreaker Rock Zip Fleece Top for Fri 30th Jan. Just follow @webtogs and retweet. http://bit.ly/togsjan09 “

Here is the current (updated every minute) of all entries, showing your odds to win.

The contest is open to anywhere in the UK and Europe and is completely free to enter.

Good luck!

Here are some pictures of the Icebreaker tops:

Icebreaker Rock Women

Icebreaker Rock Zip Mens

P.S. Thanks to @simonianson for helping out with some inspiration for this.