Hurrah, we're off to sunny Harrogate on the Costa del Yorkshire
Norte for the annual outdoors trade show.
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What it's really all about...
Show time :-) with Mr Buff
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The bad news is that as a result, the site will be a little quieter
than normal on Monday and Tuesday, the good news is that we'll be
getting drunk, sorry, we'll be bringing you the scoop on all the new
gear and clothing for 2003 plus anything else we find out.
Of course, being the news-driven dynamo of a web site that we are,
we've already told you about quite a bit of new kit over the past few
months, including scoops from Berghaus and The North Face and
including the first UK test of the new Paclite 3 fabric for spring
2003, but they'll be a load more besides and we'll be bringing you
pics and information on the best of it later in the week.
We're expecting to see a lot of ultralight kit based on the new
Paclite fabric, but we also reckon on a soft shell explosion and a
lot of beige-coloured travel gear. Don't worry, everyone has it and
we'll ignore it as ever...
Joking aside there's always some interesting smaller companies
around with innovative new ideas and we'll be doing our best to root
them out and tell you all about them. Just drop by the site later in
the week for the full monty.
On top of the gear news, Go Outdoors - the industry trade body -
is launching a new 'Go Walking' campaign with a ridiculous logo aimed
at getting more people out there walking (and coincidentally buying
outdoors clothing, boots, packs etc. Plus the Outdoors Retailer of
the Year competition gets decided.
Try not to pine, we'll be back on Wednesday with a couple of
updates before then if we can get out of the bar...
