We have just added a new range of kids gear to the online website, to keep your little one's warm over the Autumn and Winter months, this in turn keeps you happier, as you have a smiling child who is warm and dry... not a screaming one who is cold and wet.

The gear we thought looks the best, performs the best and comes at the right price is from Didriksons of Sweden and boy do they get cold weather out there, so you know they know what they are doing making childrens warm winter clothing, hats and gloves.

We have opted for ages up to 6-7, after that we have a range of Marmot Childrens outdoor clothing for your little, but slightly older ones!!

We have hats,

gloves, jackets and pants or all-in-one suits. This really is the best stuff you can get to keep Jack Frost at bay whilst you play and have fun in the snow with your little mites!

Lets hope for a good cold winter, lots of fun, loads of snow and warm houses at the end of the day.

 

Out again today in my Inov-8 Bare Grip 200 with JP Challinor for a lunchtime run. Again they performed excellently giving fantastic grip on the limestone paving, hard pack ground and clay/mud we encountered on our round. Unfortunately it was not raining, so we sweated our way round the 5/6 mile circuit with the heavy air stiffling us. Good to get out again, as usual. Bare Grip's rock!!

We have been offline with our blog since April of this year (2011), but we will now endevour to bring you regular updates and posts, to keep your juices flowing making sure you are as titilated as we are about the outdoors, be it running, walking, climbing or anything else we or you may get upto in the outdoors.

I (Charlie) have just been for a lunchtime run & I swore to myself back in January when we moved from our Windermere Shop to our Kendal Online Office, that I would run up Benson Knott as regularly as I could, I told myself at least 3 times a week... how hard could that have been? Well for one reason or another I failed, misrabley... but its Autumn now and so leaves are falling, so I am turning over (another, as always) new leaf.

And so back to my little run, well I have been up Benson Knott, ran all the way for the first time this year, and it felt great, but.... more to the point, I was wearing my well loved and looked after Inov-8 Baregrip 200's. You can wear these without socks if you like, so this is what I did. To get to the top of Benson Knott from our office, you run through 2 fields, then road for a mile or so, then out onto the open fell, so a mix of grass, tarmac and rough fell. The Bare Grip is great for this type of running, apart from the road you may argue... but.... I will disagree. This is my second pair of Bare Grips, I trashed the first pair whilst planning the  Saunders Mountain Marathon earlier in the year running through too much rough sharp scree. When I trashed the uppers, the studs were hardly worn, and when you look at them you realise they are flat, very aggressive, but flat no the less. And so I thought, why can't you justy run on the road, unlike the Mudclaw 272 or the Mudclaw 333 which have great studs for fell use but if used on the road or hard tracks they wear down very quickly, these little puppies will take the punishment of a harder surface without wearing away so fast. Well thats the idea anyway.

The Bare Grips performed just as well on the road as on the fell. This is my first mixed run in them, but I an betting that the studs will still be in very good condition by the time the uppers have had it, but lets see. I will keep using them for running up and down Benson Knott, and give you regular updates on the state of the sole unit and outsole (comprising of those wonderful flat studs).