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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Season's Greetings from OutdoorScotland.co.uk
Happy holidays, season's greetings and merry yuletide to all our customers and readers.
We've been very busy at OutdoorScotland.co.uk in December and I've not had much of a chance to update this blog. We've been working really hard to make sure all your orders get to you in time for Christmas, so I hope everyone's got their parcel now. As for us, it's a short break over Christmas and New Year before starting back in the first week of January. Hopefully we'll get out on the hills over the holidays and with a little luck we might get some snow. Maybe we'll see some of you out there. Thanks to everyone who ordered from us in 2005, we hope we'll hear from you again in 2006. All the best Adam & Nicola Posted by bigcrags @
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 Monday, December 05, 2005 Fife Coastal Path
I was out for lunch and a wander around Elie in Fife yesterday and saw the signs for the Fife Coastal Path. It occurred to me that it would be a great project for winter weekends when the weather is a bit rubbish or you don't fancy hillwalking in the Highlands.
The Fife Coastal Path is 78 miles long and runs from the Forth Bridges to Newport on Tay and goes right through all the Fife fishing villages and St Andrews. It breaks down into several easy sections and I'm really tempted to spend a few days exploring Fife in on this path. I can imagine it would be easy to do it as an extremely lightweight trip, staying in B&B's or driving to one end and using public transport to get back to your car if you are only walking for a day at a time. The weather would rarely be so bad that you need full winter kit or any heavy gear for that matter, so the distances should be easily covered. http://homepages.tesco.net/~fcp/ Posted by bigcrags @
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 Waterproof Fleece Gloves - Sealskinz or Highlander  I was out on a hill in the past couple of weeks and, realising it's getting on for full on winter season, decided it might be a good idea to grab a pair of gloves on my way out the door. My normal ones lying by the coatstand are a pair of Sealskinz. This time though I couldn't find them so grabbed Nicola's Highlander waterproof fleece gloves. Now sometimes I dread wearing my Sealskinz. While they are waterproof and windproof, I just find them rather cold. Sometimes I'm warmer if I take them off. I don't know if it's a trick of the mind, but that's the way it feels. I had never really examined the highlander gloves before. Fleece on the outside, waterproof membrane inside that then a mesh lining for the membrane. Doesn't sound really the right way round - surely the fleece should be on the inside, with the membrane and a shell outside it? Anyway, not holding out much hope, I didn't put the gloves on until my hands were well and truly freezing after lunch, in the spindrift, up on the tops. You could have blown me over - 5 minutes later my hands were toasty. Couldn't tell you how waterproof they were, it was too cold for that, but certainly kept the wind out and gave me warm hands. I told my friends. They thought I was just trying to sell some gloves. "Honest guv' it's true, I prefer my wife's Highlander gloves to my Sealskinz". Sometimes you can't win. But at least I've got warm hands. Posted by bigcrags @
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