In order to keep my ear close to the ground in the ski touring world, I am going on a ski touring trip! (It’s not a holiday, honest!) A week in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, in the company of Mountain Tracks guides Matt Dickinson and Olly Allen. Weather permitting there will be the chance […]
Current Vacancies at facewest.co.uk - last updated 24 April 2008
We currently have 2 vacancies:
Customer Services Rep. - Closing Date for applications 10 June 2008
We require a Customer Services assistant to work within the customer service operations of our busy sales office. You will use your excellent outdoor industry […]
No blog entry for 2 months, I should be shot! I was on holiday for 1 month and had planned a few entries from the chalet but the router was up the spout so no internet connection. As for the 2 weeks before I went and the 2 weeks since, I have no excuse.
Please be […]
A season worker has died in an avalanche in Tignes last week. He was snowboarding off piste with a friend who was not caught. The man was recovered by his friend using an avalanche transceiver but did not survive.
The point of this post is to remind all off piste skiers and boarders that wearing a […]
Now the dust is finally settling from Christmas we would like to say a big Thank you to all our customers. It was pretty hectic but we managed to get everything out in time. We have just about processed the mound of returns and exchanges that have come back since Christmas so have finally […]
An encouraging start for Scotland this winter with good early snowfall particulary in Cairngorm. Check out the pictures below from the SCUK website
Excellent early snowfalls in Austria is leading to ealry excitement for this coming season.
Davos - 62cm
St Anton - 64cm
Braunwald - 72cm
Kitzbuhel - 100cm+, opens for skiing 6 weeks early
Figures taken from j2ski.com.
Information from Snow-Forecast.com confirms this plus adds that Scandinavia and Canada are faring the same. Hopefully the cold air and snow will push further […]
It’s been a pretty hectic time at Facewest. We think all the winter stock has now been added to the website, the new climbing skins from G3 and Coll Tex were about the last things to go on. they can be viewed here.
Coll Tex Camlock Flexi/Loop Skins £100
2M x 120mm trim to fit […]
The staff at Facewest enetered 3 teams into the Haworth Mudman this weekend. The Mudman is an off road duathlon (run, bike, run) with the legs being 5km, 21km and 3km over very hilly terrain, west of Bradford.
The 3 teams were Stuart (solo), Jake & Stuart J and James and Jon.
Mountain Biking is the most […]
Just back from a BCA sales meeting in Munich and the latest news is that the New Tracker 2 is unlikely to be ready this season. To their credit BCA have all the parts and are ready to go into prouction but are not completely happy with the software that powers the Tracker 2 and […]
