Bank Holiday Mega Sale
Bargain hunt alert! It’s that time of the year again when we need to clear out the summer stock to make room for the autumn ranges.
In the Llanberis shop we will be running a Mega Sale starting on Monday 23rd August and running through the following Bank Holiday weekend to finish on Monday 30th August.
The key brands in the sale will be Mammut, The North Face, Prana, Westcomb and Outdoor Research.
Sounds like the perfect excuse to make another visit to North Wales…the bird bans are also off the sea cliffs too! Yes folks, the ‘glorious 1st’ (i.e. the first day of August when the main bird bans come off the South Stack cliffs) has passed and it’s now Red Wall/Mousetrap time!
Guidebooks galore!
front cover shot showing Steve McClure on the frighteningly difficult Mutation F9a, Raven Tor Photo: Keith Sharples
Here at V12 we do like a good guidebook, so we were pleased to see a trio of hot new titles landing in the shop this month.
The BMC continue to produce top quality productions under Grimer’s watchful eye. The latest in the Peak grit range of guidebooks is Froggatt and Black Rocks. A monster book with over 2200 routes and 1100 boulder problems, plus all the usual interesting historical tit bits. Yours for a snip at £24.
Next up is Swiss Bloc 1, a bumper fun guide to the 12 best bouldering areas in northern Switzerland, including the high profile venue, Magic Wood. The guide is trilingual (English, German and French) and has a pleasing modern feel to its design. If you haven’t been yet, make sure you check this out – it really is a special part of the world.
And last, but not least is a supplement to Peak limestone. Recent Developments on Peak Limestone comes from the Ground Up stable and is authored by Peak guru, Mark ‘Zippy’ Pretty. All you need to know about what has been happening on the steep white stuff in one nifty booklet.
Star product: Crux RK30 climbing pack
Crux RK30 - top class rucsac design!
Every now and then a truly excellent design turns up in the range of new products. Standards are really high these days so it takes something quite special to stand out.
The Crux RK30 is more than just a well thought out climbing pack. Tough, functional and intelligently designed – this is a genuine star product!
Make sure you check it out.
Coloured DMM Spectre Q-draws – £9.99
Limited Edition DMM Spectre Coloured Wiregate Quickdraws – from only £9.99!
We’ve got yet another super deal: this time it’s the DMM Spectre Coloured Wiregate Quickdraws. These ‘Limited Edition’ draws feature a matching colour coded krab and sling at the rope clipping end. All sizes are available at some seriously cheap prices:
12cm – gold RRP £15, but now £9.99!
18cm – blue RRP £15.50, but now £10.99!
25cm – red RRP £16, but now £11.99!
There is also a further special deal if you buy 5 quickdraws. You can pick any size mix that you want and still only pay £49.99 for the lot!
New Ogwen guide released!
Exciting news on the guidebook front: the Climbers’ Club has released the much anticipated Ogwen guide, and first impressions are that it is great piece of work.
Following in the new CC style, established last year with the well received Llanberis guide, it features amongst its many delights coverage of scrambling routes and bouldering.
The enthusiasm and diligence of main author, Mike Bailey really shines through – if you reckon you know the Ogwen crags already this book will make you think again. Mike, and the rest of the team, has done us all proud. This guide stands as a top class addition to the range of definitive guides for the North Wales area.
Other new releases include the A55 Sport Climbs from Mike Doyle, which covers, as the name suggests, the sport crags along the A55 corridor from Colwyn Bay to Dwygyfylchi.
There is also a new mini selected guide from Jack Geldard: North Wales Classics which covers the popular routes on the mountain crags of northern Snowdonia.
Edelrid Eagle Rope 9.8 x 60m £99.99
Edelrid Eagle Rope 9.8 x 60m down from £160 to only £99.99
Here it is, another massive spring time rope deal: the Edelrid Eagle Rope 9.8 x 60m down from £160.00 to only £99.99!
This offer is only available while stocks last, so make haste if you want one.
Camp Nano 30 Q-draw 10 pack £99.99
Camp Nano 30 Quickdraw - 10 pack for £99.99!
Yes folks it’s another V12 super-deal. This time we have we’ve bought in a massive bunch of the snazzy Camp Nano 30 Quickdraws, but hurry, at this price stocks are unlikely to last for long.
If you’re one of those people who have been holding off against the wire gate revolution, then this could be your chance to make the switch to a super light rack, but crucially without lightening your wallet in the process.
A series of deals are available:
1. The single quickdraws are down from £17.00 to £13.99
2. A 5 pack is slightly cheaper per quickdraw at £67.50 (i.e. £13.50 each)
3. And the really amazing deal: a 10 pack for only £99.99!!! (i.e. £10.00 each)
Katana Lace and Scarpa Vapour arrive!
The new La Sportiva Katana Lace - £109.99
As mentioned in the header of the shop site by Gaz, the much anticipated La Sportiva Katana Lace has arrived. The original velcro Katana has always been a popular shoe, famed for its precise and sensitive feel. The lace up version adds a greater degree of precision and fit. It still features the low volume toe box and the awesome heel ridge – previously only the Muira came near to the performance of this on marginal heel hooks.
Scarpa have also brought out a very promising new shoe which closely matches the design brief of the Katana, albeit at a lower price range (£89.99 and £91.99). If you have ever been a fan of the Katana make sure you try out the new Vapour, which is available in both velcro and lace up design. Llanberis shop manager Jack Rattenbury has been using a pair of the velcro Vapours over the last few weeks and had the following to say:
“I’ve always been a La Sportiva person, but these new Scarpa shoes have really turned my head. I’m made up with them and the Vibram XS grip 2 rubber feels really sticky.”
Both the velcro and lace up version (which comes with the Vibram XS Edge rubber) are in stock now.
Also worth a mention is the superb new approach shoe from La Sportiva. The Boulder X continues the tradition of top class design and superb build quality that we have come to expect from this innovative company.
Edelrid Kestrel ropes – prices slashed!
Edelrid Kestrel 8.5x60M BS Classic Ropes – down from £290 to £199.00
Over the next few weeks we will be unveiling a series of incredible rope deals.
The latest super bargain is a pair of Edelrid Kestrel 8.5×60M BS Classic Ropes – down from a hefty £290 to a sweet £199.00 and that’s postage free too!
This is a high quality, high performance rope, in fact, just the perfect set up for the keen trad climber.
The sun is shining, the crags are dry – get to it!
DMM come to Liverpool
There will be a DMM gear testing session at the Awesome Walls climbing wall and V12 shop in Liverpool on Wednesday 28th April.
A full range of harnesses will be available to test out, plus there will be a raffle with lots of lovely DMM goodies to be won.
DMM rep, Rob Greenwood will be on hand to answer any questions (well, at least ones related to climbing gear!).
