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Make Your Own Gear: Multi-Pad-Ground-Sheet Integration System
Complete step-by-step instructions on how to size, cut and glue a tidy sleeping pad system.
Primus Gravity MF Stove REVIEW
Innovative multi-fuel stove for canisters, white gas and kerosene that performs well with canister fuel but is difficult to use with the other fuels.
Coleman Fyrestorm Ti Stove REVIEW
Innovative dual-fuel stove for canisters and white gas and variants that works very well with canister fuel and reasonably well with white gas.
Integral Designs eVENT Crysallis (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Looking for a bivy sack made out of eVENT fabric? Take your pick at Integral Designs.
Apparel Trends and Highlights
Trends and highlights in lightweight apparel from Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006.
Outdoor Research MicroNight Bivy (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Outdoor Research unveils an 18 ounce, fully-featured waterproof bivy sack.
Night Ize Figure 9 Rope Tightener (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Nite Ize rescues the knot challenged among us with their Figure 9 Rope Tightener.
In the Chaos: The craziness That is OR (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Exciting, awesome, exhausting, intense, and hectic are just some adjectives that describe the chaos of OR.
Sleeping Bag Overview (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Sleeping Bags continue to drop weight with new materials and construction techniques.
New Lightweight Silnylon Products From Equinox (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
These items stray a bit from backpacking, but frankly we were impressed with their quality construction, lightweight, compactability, and usability. They would also make very nice gifts.
Eagle Nest Outfitters SingleNest Hammock (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Hammock options continue to grow with the ENO SingleNest.
St. Moritz Watches: Momentum VP-1 and VS-1 Digital Altimeters and Momentum Logic (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Digital Altimeters with numerous features and a space-age materials analog watch that will stun you.
New Granite Gear Meridian Vapor Backpack (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
What do you get when you cross the Nimbus Meridian and the Vapor Trail? The Meridian Vapor of course!
HydraCoach Interactive Water Bottle
Why the HydraCoach may have absolutely zero applicability for lightweight backpacking.
Manzella Silkweight Windstopper Glove
The essence of gloveness!
Kelty’s New Lightweight Backpack Line
Serious lightweight backpacks from Kelty.
Kahtoola Flight Snow Travel System is Now Available (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Kahtoola, the traction people, were at summer OR to show their latest refinements to their Flight Snow travel system, so we dropped by to check them out.
NEMO Finds eVENT Replacement for Tents (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
NEMO claims to have found an eVENT replacement for their waterproof breathable tents
A One-Person Tent as Light as a Bivy From Big Sky International (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
One-person, single-wall, free-standing, breathable fabric, 28 ounces.
New Macpac AMP Light Backpacks (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
For 2007, Macpac adds a new line of lightweight backpacks with lightweight durable fabrics and a very nice feature set.
Princeton Tec Apex Pro Headlamp (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2006)
Princeton Tec has reduced the weight of their 3-Watt LED Apex Pro by nearly 4 ounces.
