Barkers of Ringwood Blog

just a reminder that we will be hosting Nordic Walking exhibitions at the Outdoor Lifestyle Show 4th 5th and 6th July. Anyone interested in participating should get in touch with us or visit us at our stand at the show (TP61)

What a donkey!! We gave you a link to the Outdoor Lifestyles Show but spelt it wrong. So this is the correct link - www.outdoorlifestyleshow.co.uk

We are now stockinst of Zeal sunglasses. The key aspect is the unique lens tint (ZB13) combined with the polarised filter, the specially blended ’sepia’ lens colour gives a more versatile range of use than the typical grey or brown sunglass lenses, as the tint allows the wearer’s eyes to adjust more easily to changing light conditions, providing more balanced vision across different conditions.

For those of you visiting the Outdoor Lifestyle Show in early July (www.outdoorlifestlyeshow.co.uk) there is the opportunity to have a go at Nordic Walking. This is an excellent way of enjoying the outdoors whilst giving your whole body a good workout. If you want to know more about it our put your name downfor a session then email info@barkers-ringwood.co.uk  

Frodo

I am assuming that you intend to do all foutreen mountains non stop and that you will be carrying minimum suvival equipment and food etc. I am also assuming that you will be supported by a back up team to meet you in each of the valleys. If this is the case and you are used to fell or trail running and therefore have strong ankles then the trail shoes have advantages of weight but no ankle support.

If you intend to carry a larger pack with some overnight equipment etc  and will have no backup then my advice would be to go with the boots.

Just to remind you that the record for  climbing every 3000ft peak in Wales is just a few minutes over four hours so I expect a young fit man like you to fly round!!

Steve

In this section we will,from time to time, introduce new products that are on the market that we will stock or are thinking of stocking. We would also be happy to share our view here about products our customers would like our opinion on.  the first review will be on a new sock range from a company called Teko. Crap name - dont you think but is it a good product find out in the next few days.

Well here goes, the first entry in our new blog. We decided to have a blog as part of our site because we get asked so many questions in the shop that we thought it would be useful to share the information.

Who knows where all this will take us?

What you will get if you visit us is OUR view on products, manufacturers and a whole range of outdoor related matters. We do not apologies for being completely biased in our opinions but we hope you will accept that it will be an opinion based on experience and knowledge gained from years of being out there and of running an outdoor store.

We will keep you up to date on new products in the shop and our view on new products by manufacturers. And..we will try and make it fun.

Getting a new initiative is very difficult so please be gentle with us whilst we become familiar with new technology and, hopefully, over the coming weeks we will start to share some good stuff.

One rule we will have is that we WILL NOT use the blog to push special promotions or stock clearances. We have taken the step to have a blog to create a vehicle for sharing knowledge.

Welcome to the Barkers Blog.

We know that there’s not much here at the moment, but we will be adding more content very soon.