Get Shopping!
Keswick is full of great stores offering a range of fantastic products, great advice on gear and some special festival offers. Don’t miss out on these shopping highlights;-
George Fisher
Is one of the UK’s leading retailer of outdoor equipment and clothing, they are proud of their reputation and continue to offer the best level of service in the business whether it be sales, advice or after-care. This year they have teamed up with Salomon to offer a boot fitting and hire service just for the period of the festival. Get fitted and get out on the hills! Garmin will also be in store showing their GPS range which you can borrow to test out on the hills. They will be running geo caching challenges; you could win some great prizes!
Needle Sports
DMM is just one of the many great climbing brands stocked in store, but is a favourite for festival goers. Pop into Needle sports on each day of the festival between 11am and noon to meet staff from DMM and to see prototypes of their superb new Dragon Cams and find out how they are made. Bring along your old bits of climbing gear and test them to destruction on DMM’s test rig!
Cotswold
Cotswolds and Ordnance Survey are hosting an evening of navigation and map reading sessions on Friday night from 6.30pm. Unfold your maps, charge up the GPS and navigate your way to the Keswick Cotswold Outdoor store to refresh those rusty mapping skills at the in store Navigation Workshop.
Rohan
Specializes in travel clothing, so this is a great opportunity to pick up your travel gear to the summer ahead. To make it even more appealing Rohan are offering Festival Goers a 15% discount during the Festival. Don’t miss out!
Rathbones
First started in retail in Keswick in 1964 and are an award winning family business that prides itself on high quality customer service and advice provided by highly trained staff. Rathbones are kindly donating prizes for one of our fantastic sporting challenges. Pop in and check out what they are up to.
Ultimate Outdoors
Ultimate Outdoors is a long-established family business, and has been operating in outdoor retail for ten years. All the management team are keen outdoor enthusiasts in some form or another.
Keswick Bikes
Keswick Bikes (a.k.a. K.M.B) was born back in the heady summer of ‘92 by Amos Doron and Andy Prestwich who still head up the business today. We have 3 specialist Lake District locations (all in Keswick) with a massive bike brand portfolio including: Commencal, Kona, Specialized, Merida, Giant & Trek and also custom build options from Nicolai, Foes, Yeti, Merlin, Cove, Cotic, Pace & Cervelo.
We offer expert, impartial advice and make sure our customers get exactly the right bike for their kind of riding. We know how important it is to get it right ..!
Angling and Outdoor
Specialising in Outdoor Clothing and footwear, camping equipment, cycling, climbing and fishing.
To support the Keswick Mountain Festival Angling and Outdoor would like to offer you a free Montane cap with purchases over £75. Visit their new store at 60 Main Street, Keswick. Available while stocks last. Check out top brands including Rab, Haglofs, Paramo and Montane as well as many others!__________________________________________________________________________________________
Fancy buying new boots, don’t throw out your old ones….
Owners of any brand of worn and unwanted walking boots are being encouraged to donate their old boots through a new initiative launched by the leading outdoor footwear brand, Meindl. Boot owners are being given the chance to make a difference in developing countries by donating their used boots with all monies raised from the collection of the footwear donated to WaterAid.
Throughtout the festival, outdoor enthusiasts can simply take their old boots of a wearable standard to Cotswold or George Fisher.
Each pair of boots donated will be sent to a developing country to be re-sold. This provides much needed affordable footwear to meet the needs of local communities, while providing employment and income opportunities.
In return, if new Meindl footwear is purchased at the same time, Meindl will reward the donor with free Meindl boot care products!*
For further details or to see the full Meindl range please visit www.bramwell-int.co.uk
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Don’t forget to check out the Adventure Base at Crow Park for some great stands plus clothing from Millican, Alpkit, Mountain Junky and Craft Clothing.
