First frost on the moor: what changes in your pack
The week the ground freezes is the week people arrive at the counter with wet feet. Five things to swap before the next walk.
Kit that has been up the hill and back.
We are an outfitter, not a catalogue. Every tent on our floor has been pitched in the car park in the rain, every boot has walked the moor, and the person fitting you has done both.
This week in the stores
- Boot fitting without appointment, every day, all three stores
- Winter range on the floor from Saturday: insulated jackets, crampons, snow stakes
- Kiln Park warehouse ships Monday to Friday, collect in store by the next day
Five departments
Camp, walk, climb, paddle and winter. If we do not stock it, we will tell you who does.
Thirty-nine years on Tannery Lane
The first shop opened in 1987 in a former tannery with two racks of boots and a kettle. Today there are three stores, a warehouse, a web shop, and 180 people, and the kettle is still on.
We fit boots properly, we repair what we sell, and we take back what fails. That is the whole business model, and it has worked for a long time.
- 1987Founded in Wrexby
- 180People across stores and warehouse
- 3Stores, all with a fitting bench
- 12,000Square feet of warehouse at Kiln Park
From the journal
All postsHow we fit boots, and why it takes forty minutes
What the fitting bench is for, what we measure, and why we will not sell you a boot that fits in the shop but not on the hill.