This article can also be found in the how to section of our website.
http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/howto/howtochooseaheadlamp.htm
Unless you have experience of a particular model or have be given a recommendation then it can be quite a job […]

Tomas Olsson is missing on Everest north face, while Norwegian Tormod Granheim has descended to 6500 meter. Tomas vanished at around 8500 meters yesterday, following a fall. The two skiers began their ski descent around lunch May 16 after a 14 hour hard ascent to the summit. One hour later, they began skiing down the […]

I have started work on the Facewest cycle section, which can be found here Facewest Bike Section.
Aimed primarily at the cycle tourist rather than racers or downhillers, we hope to offer the same quality range of products that we already offer to winter sports enthusiasts.
I realised that we already had most of the lightweight camping […]

Funner are offering a preview of their latest snowboarding DVD Smokebomb Check it out here http://www.funner.us/teaser.html
It all helps to get us through to next season.

Excellent pre season snow falls are getting people excited down under. With only a few weeks to go before the start of the season Mt Hotham has reported 30cm of new snow in a single dump. The snow also fell down to 1000m which is pretty good down there. Add that to the previous falls […]

Congratulations to Jon Hendry (our warehouse manager) for the sucessfully organising the Carneige Leeds Grammar Aquathon. Held in mixed weather conditions on Sunday 14.05.06 this event was a complete sucess. 120 children completed this swim - run format in age ranges from 8 to 16. The aquathon was designed to be fun and get children […]

After a very favourable review in an outdoor magazine, this weekend’s hot product was the Exped Crush Dry Bag Medium.
It’s part of the very popular and excellent value Exped drybag line. It’s a roll top waterproof bag for you laptop. Not only that but it also contains a sleeve of EVA foam padding that protects […]

Here are our new product lines from Mountain Equipment for this spring
Men’s Clothing
Mountain Equipment Momentum Zip Neck Top £40.50
Mountain […]

These are links to all the new spring 06 clothing from Marmot that we are selling
Men’s Clothes
Marmot Midweight Short Sleeve Thermal £30
Marmot […]

All our remaining gloves from Winter 05 are now on sale.
Click Here to see all the gloves, or follow the individual links below
Marmot Fleece Glove Was £12 Now £8
Marmot Shell Glove Was £25 Now £15
Marmot Evolution Glove Was £25 Now £15
Marmot Borelais Glove Was £30 Now £20
Marmot XT Glove Was £35 Now £25
Marmot Crestline Glove […]