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.
Jon Doran
