Sponsors say "Yes"!
I'm delighted to say Team TGO has it's first two sponsors.
BERGHAUS has kindly agreed to provide some of their excellent Extrem Light range for training and during the race. We're getting the team logo on the kit too. http://www.Berghaus.com
SMARTWOOL is providing socks and warm base layer gear for winter training. http://www.Anatom.co.uk
I'll be writing about this in TGO magazine and The Herald (Scottish newspaper) in coming weeks.
I'm pleased these were the first two companies to offer support because I have a long association with each. In the dim distant past (1983) I made a ski-ing film Gordon Fraser in Les Arcs. He now runs the company which imports the superb SMARTWOOL products to the UK. He kept Liz & I well supplied with SMARTWOOL socks when we hiked the 2,568 mile wilderness Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, in 2002. In the snow of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, to the heat of the Mojave - they performed very well.
I first filmed the two original directors of Berghaus, Peter and Gordon, when they won the "Golden Boot Award" at the Harrogate outdoors show for their revolutionary Yeti Gaiter. For a report on Look North, we had them wading through a particularly muddy part of the Washington Wildfowl park. I kept close relations with the company, even after Pentland took over, but lost touch when I was preparing for the PCT. At the time Berghaus didn't make much ultra-light gear and that was what we needed for the PCT. Now their range is comprehensive so I'm pleased to renew my connections.
Check the main web-site for photo updates. http://www.SimonWillis.co.uk
BERGHAUS has kindly agreed to provide some of their excellent Extrem Light range for training and during the race. We're getting the team logo on the kit too. http://www.Berghaus.com
SMARTWOOL is providing socks and warm base layer gear for winter training. http://www.Anatom.co.uk
I'll be writing about this in TGO magazine and The Herald (Scottish newspaper) in coming weeks.
I'm pleased these were the first two companies to offer support because I have a long association with each. In the dim distant past (1983) I made a ski-ing film Gordon Fraser in Les Arcs. He now runs the company which imports the superb SMARTWOOL products to the UK. He kept Liz & I well supplied with SMARTWOOL socks when we hiked the 2,568 mile wilderness Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, in 2002. In the snow of the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades, to the heat of the Mojave - they performed very well.
I first filmed the two original directors of Berghaus, Peter and Gordon, when they won the "Golden Boot Award" at the Harrogate outdoors show for their revolutionary Yeti Gaiter. For a report on Look North, we had them wading through a particularly muddy part of the Washington Wildfowl park. I kept close relations with the company, even after Pentland took over, but lost touch when I was preparing for the PCT. At the time Berghaus didn't make much ultra-light gear and that was what we needed for the PCT. Now their range is comprehensive so I'm pleased to renew my connections.
Check the main web-site for photo updates. http://www.SimonWillis.co.uk
posted by Simon at 4:26 PM
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