ESC Outdoor News
Posted 17.7.07
New - The Juice Bag Beach!
Capacity 51 Litres
Weight 600 grams
Fabric: Biodegradable canvas
Spend the day at the beach while keeping your iPod, phone, or camera totally charged!
We've built the world's first heavy-duty solar beach tote that incorporates our high-tech flexible solar panel.
With the Juice Bag Beach Tote, your phone is good to go, and your camera's always ready for that one great shot - No matter where you are.
The panel is the same as in other Juice Bags and a phone will run/charge in 2 hours in direct sunlight.
Retail on the bag is £175 and it will be available exclusively from us Esc Outdoor Ltd Tel 01273 487509 hugo@esc-outdoor.com
Posted 16.6.07
During 2006 and 2007 ESC have hosted a series of training weekends for staff from various outdoor stores including Cotswold, Ellis Brigham and Itchy Feet. Based in the Peak District, participants went rock climbing, abseiling off 100 foot bridge into a river, rock scrambling, and ascended Kinder Scout. During the weekend there's a chance to use Gregory packs of choice, and tents and sleeping bags were kindly supplied by Mountain Equipment.
The weekends will continue, so if you are interested please contact Hugo for a schedule at hugo@esc-outdoor.com
Some pictures from the weekends:
Posted 24.11.06
ESC have started sponsorship with yet another leading mountaineer. Cliff Dargonne from Sussex is about to leave for Carstenz Pyramid, the last of his Seven Summits, with his new Gregory Shasta pack supplied by ESC.
Previous sponsored or supported mountaineers are listed on our sponsor page at
Posted 14.11.06
ESC to distribute Sherpa Adventure Gear
Sherpa Adventure Gear is one of the USA's fastest growing outdoor brands. Owned and run by Sherpas now based in Washington State in the US, the brand is closely identified with the Sherpa people of Nepal and is strongly branded with images and stories from Sherpa culture. The brand uses some of the many Everest ascencionists who are Sherpas as its ambassadors - including Apa Sherpa who is the record holder with 16 ascents, and Pemba Doma Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to climb Everest from both sides.
Sherpa AG products are principally technical outdoor clothing with the accent on superb style, colour and design; and a range of sleeping bags designed by Sherpa climbers.
Sherpa Adventure Gear will be available in a limited range from SS07, and a full range in the UK from FW07.
Contact Steve Ranger at steve@esc-outdoor.com for full details of the range.
Posted 7.3.06
ESC Outdoor sign with Mont Bell, Japan's largest outdoor manufacturer
ESC Outdoor agreed UK distribution
with Mont Bell of Japan, Japan's largest manufacturer of outdoor products
and a world leader in outdoor technology. Mont Bell is a company offering
some of the finest, most luxurious, and most functional outdoor products
in the world. A place that cultivates the Japanese concept of kinobi—function
is beauty.
Mont
Bell was founded in 1975 by Isamu Tatsuno (pictured right) along with two
climbing friends, Fumiaki Masaki and Sachiko
Masuo. Tatsuno was the second Japanese ascensionist of the
north face of the Eiger. He has also been heavily involved with kayaking
and is a premier Japanese outdoor personality.
Mont
Bell have 325 employees in Japan, with 37 of their own outdoor retail stores
as well as Japan's largest
distributorship. HQ (pictured left) is in Osaka.
Mont Bell have been at the forefront of outdoor technology for many years. Thir Torrent Flier jacket is the lightest full waterproof Goretex jacket in the world; they are the world's only outdoor company to have their own dedicated GoreTex factory; they licence patented sleeping bag technology to many manufacturers including Mountain Equipment and Blizzard in the UK. These are a very few of the technological advances which have made Mont Bell's name as the premier groundbreaking outdoor brand.
First dliveries of Mont Bell product are expected for the SS07 season. Please contact ESC Outdoor for more details.
Visit the Mont Bell website at: www.montbell.com
Posted 28.3.06
Powerpocket featured in Trail Magazine
Powerpocket featured in the 'must have' section of April 2006 edition of the UK's most popular outdoor magazine, 'Trail'.
Posted 6.3.06
The Case of the Purloined Juice Bag - at the Oscars 2006
This story was posted at: http://twist.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=269055 after the Oscars 2006
Yes, it's true. Like the rest of us, I am subject to attacks of Consumer Lust. Rare, but sometimes intense. Specifically, there were these snazzy yellow & black solar-powered backpacks on display in the "Green Building Lounge." But I only had a VIP, not a Very-VIP Pass, so I couldn't get past the cordon; I confessed my lust to the Evolvers; Lora ran down to grab one for me (as a staffer & sponsor, she had clout). As she passed the backpack to me and zipped off, another staffer accosted me--"Hey, don't take that! We have to return those to the company. They're not freebies." Downcast, I surrendered the Object of My Desire.
Later, I returned to the Sacred Alcove. Since I wasn't going to get to take one home with me, I at least wanted to get some snapshots. I recruited Holly, and Katrina, to model the backpacks. (Hehe, thinking maybe if I give Reware enough PR, they'll send me one. Hint hint nudge nudge wink wink.)
Later, Barent & Heather subjected me to a Citizen's Trial. One of the other JuiceBags had now, in fact, gone missing. And not due to me!
Barent: "Dude, that's so uncool you tried to take that Juicebag. You should be ashamed. Are you sure you didn't take it? Look me in the eyes and tell me you didn't take it."
"Yeah," Heather chimed in, "Swear you didn't that that backpack. Look me in the eyes too."
I swore I didn't take it: "But, I will admit I thought about liberating it." [Anarchists don't "shoplift." They "liberate" stuff.]
"And, you put Lora up to grabbing it for you? Didn't you?! That's even worse. Admit it!"
Well, did I put Lora up to it? Did I recruit her as my accomplice? No. She volunteered to get it for me. And at that point I obviously didn't know that the bags were not free display swag. But that seemed too complicated to explain--it would just sound like I was trying to talk my way out of my [alleged] guilt.
Heather: "So, maybe you didn't take it! But I bet you know who did! Would you tell us if you knew who took it?"
"Umm. . . well, . . . IF I knew who took it, then. . . It might depend on what the punishment was, . . . and how much of a friend they were." [Speculative Moral Quandary?]
Eventually I managed to get Heather to take off her Prosecutor hat. I put her in front of my digital camera and asked her for a User Review of the Juicebag. Heather says she'd charged both her cellphone and iPod off it (not at the same time). She can even fit her whole laptop in the bag, and Reware now has a battery/adapter for laptops.
"Wow, Heather. That sounds like a perfect commercial. Are you sure Reware didn't pay you to say this?" I ask.
"No way," Heather retorts, "I paid $200 cash for my Juicebag, and it's worth every penny. I use it all the time."
We never did discover who, in fact, purloined the JuiceBag.
Posted 13.12.2005:
Gregory Diablo Featured in Outside December 2005 Issue
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| Gregory's amazing new travel/shoulder carry bag the Diablo was featured as a 'must-have' product in this month's Outside in the US - a product for the future, the Diablo features a level of detailing and quality unique to Gregory, laptop sleeve and specially designed shoulder strap system for stability. | ||
