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′s Dr Watt has been an expert telemark skier, cross country skier and hillwalker.  The Glencoe Jacket, which he used both for walking and telemark skiing, has had minor refurbishment once in 20 years and had a modified moleskin collar.

Dr Watt obviously cares for his gear as he showed us an early Mountain Equipment Duvet jacket, at least as old as the Glencoe Jacket, which had little loss of down feathers. He also bought one of the early Páramo smocks from Hilltrek.

According do his daughter Dr Watt is a bit of a outdoor jacket and gear fan. He was using a Garmin GPS to navigate along the path to Alltdourie.

A man after my own heart!