Show And Tell
A selection of pictures from the weekend's OS Outdoors Show including some that are frankly shocking...
Posted: 18 March 2002
by Jon
We came, we queued, some of us got inside and had a look round,
took a few snaps. In a nutshell - a good foundation to build on for
next year. The demand took the organisers and everyone else by
surprise and word is that next year's show could be three times the
size.
Observations? It would be nice to have more stuff aimed squarely
at mountain walkers and scramblers - there was a bit of a grey area
in the talks, for example, between top-end international
mountaineering and easy rambling. More bargains from the retailers
please and more innovation from the exhibitors. Anyhow, next year
should be both bigger and better, but here's some of what you missed
if you didn't make it along.
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Ah, the glamorous life of an
outdoors marketing man - Chris Lines of Berghaus, for it is
he, puts his faith in his own products in the Gore rain
tent. Fortunately Chris retained his dry sense of
humour...
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Indoor ice climbing on foam pulled
the crowds in. Heels a bit high in this particular example
we thought, but a lot more comfortable than the real thing,
which is starting to melt anyway.
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OUTDOORSmagic member Alex Ford gets
his lips to grips with one of Gore's inflatable jackets on
the Trail stand. Alex isn't normally quite so pink...
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Clash of the Titans as outdoors
meeja mega-being and editor of TGO Cameron McNeish tries to
swap a copy of his magazine for a bottle of Diet Coke,
belonging to Maria del Carmen Clegg, flame-haired Trail
siren. Is romance in the air we wonder...
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OM editor Jon Doran who'll do
anything for a free magazine. Jon was forced to admit that
his fierce anti-beard campaign was based in his own abject
failure to produce a visible crop of facial
hair.
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Small climber, big plastic rock as
sprogs got in on the act too.
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Patterdale MRT were indefatigable in
their constant rescuing of anyone daft enough to come too
close to their stretcher. You could buy a Berghaus Mountain
Rescue tee for a tenner as well.
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The Craghoppers Adventure Travel
Theatre was the throbbing heart of the travel section of the
show and packed out for ev ery lecture. And of course, Crags
Nosquuito clothing ensured the area was mozzie
free.
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And if you were wondering what an
indoors adventure race looks like, wonder no more. The words
hamster and wheel came to mind with the three-hour heats
qualifying teams for the pleasures of a 4.5 hour final. We
particularly enjoyed the rotating climbing wall. That is to
say, we enjoyed watching the rotating climbing
wall.
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And here it is in rotational action.
Who won? We have no idea, but it was the taking part that
mattered. Erm, wasn't it?
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Keith Byrne of The North Face did a
Ljundberg and dyed his hair for the final. Here he wonders
why it's taking so long to reach the
shoreline.
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Last but not least, here's that
queue again... Apparently the organisers are offering free
tickets for the 2003 event to those who had to be turned
away due to the overdemand and limited capacity. See you
next year?
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