Magic Mountain Hits The Web

Glossop-based Mountain Equipment and Ron Hill clearance outlet Magic Mountain now has a web site where you can check the latest offers in the shop.

The site - www.magic-mountain.co.uk - is very basic, but potentially useful. Bear in mind that as well as reduced end of line and clearance stock, there's also a continuous stream of seconds - many with only minor or cosmetic faults - plus ex-test gear and some truly bizarre prototypes in odd colours. There are often ME sleeping bags at around half full retail price.

Well worth a visit if you happen to be passing through Glossop on the way to one of the Peak's many (what?) stately homes, caffs or numerous antique shops this spring. It's at the bottom of the big car park which is first left on the way out of Glossop on the Hayfield Road aka Victoria Street.

Of tangential interest is Glossop's new continental-style caff 'Barista' on Victoria Street itself. A riot of stainless stell and white walls in a quite un-Glossop way, it sells strange London-ish things like latte and other coffees as well as baguettes and pastries baked on the premises. Good coffee, but the walls need painting a warm shade of yellow - at the moment it's a tad arctic.

And then there's Glossop's very own tapas restaurant. Ooops, hang on, I must be bored.