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		<title>Hilltrek Big Winter Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ January 21, 2012 12:00 am to January 28, 2012 12:00 am. ] Come to our big Winter sale in Aboyne in Royal Deeside starting Friday 2oth and continuing through to Saturday 28th.

 The sale will offer great discounts on our retail stock including down jackets, waterproof jackets, fleeces, base layers, walking boots, snow boots etc. 

Brands in addition to our own include Rab, Helly Hansen, Odlo, Patagonia, Páramo, AKU, Meindl, Merrell, Hitech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2012/01/hilltrek-sale-ventile-paramo/</link>
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		<title>20 year old Glencoe Double Ventile Jacket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a beautiful frosty Sunday I met one of our customers Dr Gordon Watt of Alford in the Keiloch Car park at Invercauld near Braemar wearing an earlier version of our Glencoe Double Ventile Jacket.
He estimated that the jacket, which was in pristine condition, was at least 20 years old.  
Although now in his 80&#8242;s Dr Watt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2012/01/20-year-old-hilltrek-glencoe-double-ventile-jacket/</link>
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		<title>Bill Brooker Aberdeen Climber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Brooker, one of Aberdeen&#8217;s most prominent climbers,  died late last year at the age of 79.
Along with Tom Patey, he was one of a small group of climbers from Aberdeen who pioneered new climbing routes  in the Cairngorms in the 1950s and challenged the dominance of climbers from Glasgow in the Scottish climbing scene.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2012/01/bill-brooker_aberdeen_climber/</link>
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		<title>New Hood on Braemar Ventile Smock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have listened to your feedback and redesigned the hood on the Braemar Ventile Smock.
There has been much buzz on outdoor and bushcraft blogs about the size of the hood on the Braemar Smock which spurred us on to do a little redesign. Some found the hood too small for larger heads and also for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/12/new-hood-on-braemar-ventile-smock/</link>
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		<title>Buy Hilltrek Ventile and Cotton Analogy on Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;If you can&#8217;t beat then join em&#8217; step 2 -a second Hilltrek product is now available on Amazon.
Assynt Cotton Analogy Jacket
If you are an Amazon fan you now can buy both the Braemar Ventile Smock and the Assynt Cotton Analogy Jacket alongside an array of Paramo Clothing and other outdoor stuff in the Hilltrek store.
See www.amazon.co.uk and search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/12/buy-hilltrek-ventile-on-amazon/</link>
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		<title>The dreaded Scottish Midge lives on or will we be saved by the snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scourge of our beautiful country -the midge -has survived through to November due to the unseasonably warm autumn weather.
Scottish Midge
Normally after September they are killed by ground frost however the tiny blood-sucking insects are still biting, meaning they are still breeding – despite it being well past the end of midge season.
Frosts and snow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/11/the-dreaded-scottish-midge-lives-on-or-will-we-be-saved-by-the-snow/</link>
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		<title>Is Ventile still used for mountaineering?</title>
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Braemar Ventile Smock in the Alps

Interesting how some major outdoor retailers seem to be overcome with hype of new fabrics and forget that fabrics such as Ventile are still being used in mountaineering -because they work.  
I walked into the local outdoor store of a major Scottish headquartered outdoor retailer several weeks ago to find two models [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/11/ventile-mountaineering/</link>
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		<title>New Liathach Cotton Analogy Smock in Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our new Liathach Cotton Analogy Smock is on its way to Leeds University Centre of Technical Textiles for Rain Room Testing.
The Liathach will be our top end Cotton Analogy Smock combining an outer of Ventile with a Nikwax Analogy® Pump Liner.
When passed each garment will have a Nikwax Analogy® Waterproof badge as proof of its waterproof [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/11/new-liathach-cotton-analogy-smock-ventile-nikwax/</link>
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		<title>Bid for a Dee Wading Jacket to support River Dee program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have donated a Made To Measure Dee Wading Jacket to help raise funds for a conservation and education program on the River Dee, our local river.
The River Dee rises at 4000ft on the high Cairngorms plateau, the highest river source in the UK, and flows through Caledonian Pine Forests and farm lands to the North Sea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/11/wading-jacket-river-dee-ventile/</link>
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		<title>Braemar Ventile Smock summiting Tete Blanche in the French Alps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike in Braemar Ventile Smock
Customer Mike Wilkins recently sent us a photograph  of a recent trip in the Franch Alps wearing a Braemar Smock. He writes:
&#8216;I enclose a picture from this years Alpine trip to Chamonix with one of your single olive ventile smocks on the summit of the Tete Blanche 3429m above Les Tours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilltrek.co.uk/blog/2011/10/braemar-ventile-smock-summiting-tete-blanche-in-the-french-alps/</link>
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