How was your walking over Easter?

Our product manager, Philippe Galland certainly caught the weather in the right mood when he ventured all the way up to Ullapool over the Easter weekend with his wife Clare.

You can see his photographs of the trip here on our flickr pages.

And remember if you've any outdoors photography you'd lie to share with us, please email them to Zoe, (zbrookes@pentland.com), and we'll showcase them for you alongside ours.

Did you watch 'Wainwright Walks' on BBC recently?

I missed the first programme but thanks to the good offices of the web and the BBC iPlayer, managed to catch it online.

Truly a case of the unmissable becoming unmissable.

It was a really nice way to spend half an hour of an evening, and coming hot on the heels of our recent post about Wainwright's Window being in peril, hope it generates even more interest in the great man.

If you did miss the er, unmissable, (the iPlayer only let's you access programmes up to 7 days after the event) series 1 & 2 are available now as a boxed set from the BBC shop.

We're delighted to report that Bill Oddie, ornithologist and all-round Goodie, wears our boots.

Indeed we're told he's been an avid fan of brasher Supalite GTX boots for many years, loving the lightness, softness and comfort of the full leather boot.

You’ll see him sporting them in many of his television series including the latest Autumnwatch and the new series of Springwatch due to be televised in May of this year.

Bill works closely with Country Innovation, who specialise in clothing and footwear for the bird/wildlife market and who are a brasher Premier Stockist and Key Online Specialist.

Commenting on our boots Bill says; My only complaint is that my Grandson’s feet have grown and he keeps pinching them, saying ‘Wow Grandad, these are cool!’.

Philippe, one of our product managers is off to Ullapool.

He tells us:

"We have now completed most of the key Munroes around Torridon and also climbed some exciting routes around Beinn Eighe, even managing to take in one of the most demanding ridge traverse challenges in the UK: Liathach.

Now we feel it's time to explore a little bit further North. This year – and because of the current winter conditions – we are off to Ullapool.

If there is a cold snap in the next few days, the snow will consolidate and some ice should form.

The plan is to complete some winter climbs such as 'Lord’s of the Gully' (Left branch. Grade III) on An Teallach."

In telling us about his plans for this Easter, Philippe was reminded of a trip a year or two back:

"Two years ago Clare my wife and I were exploring the mountains around Torridon. One day we decided to climb Bein Alligin. It was a typical Scottish April day: windy, rainy and snowy conditions :-) During one of numerous motivational 'Tea stops’, we found a pair of glasses lying on the ground. We completed the walk and at the car park I asked a couple of guys if they could tell me where I should drop these glasses ? The guy inspected them and asked me if I'd found them below the Horn of Alligin? Which actually  we had. The glasses in fact, by amazing co-incidence, were his! And he told me that he lost them up there last year! "

Zoe in Marketing, and her husband, (not forgetting black labrador Benjie), are heading of to Monyash in the middle of the Peak District camping and walking for 4 days. (And also not forgetting Zoe's new digital camera, which she's promised will bring back with lots of new photos for our Flick gallery.)

They are planning to do various walks in the Manifold Valley, with fingers crossed that the weather is kind and, indeed everything crossed to ensure as Zoe says that: " With my poor navigation skills I hope we don’t get lost !"

Note from blog Editor: 'Zoe. Keep the questionable map-reading skills quiet eh? We try to imply here that all brasherites are granite-hewn, survival skill expert, map-reading geniuses, not to mention; grizzly outdoor legends. Please don't spoil the illusion.'

Last but not least, Martyn Yorke our Product Developer is off to Burbridge in the Peak District bouldering for the weekend in preparation for his 10 day, hard-core bouldering holiday in Font in April

Looking for a comfy pair of boots straight out of the box for Easter?

You could do a lot worse than our Borgue GTX.

But don't just take our word for it. Graham Thompson, gear tester extraordinaire at the authoritative and well-informed Trail magazine concurs.

A great review in the current edition describes the Borgue GTX as 'A great all-rounder that is ideal for most hill-walkers, trekkers and backpackers.' The reviewer also comments: 'For my money, The Brasher Borgue GTX provides more than enough comfort and performance. It transforms Brasher into a supplier of a broad range of boots, rather than simply the most popular boot in Britain.'

So if you're looking for a new pair of boots for Easter, (or the Summer come to that) you might want to give the Borgue GTX a spin.