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“Tipi’s pitched on a sandbar of an Alaskan river, it’s been raining for four days, EVERYTHING is soaked, how do I light a fire in my stove?”We get asked this and similar questions frequently, so we de…

Winter camping and hot tenting can be an incredible time to be out. Some of the benefits of winter snow camping are that it's far easier to find solitude and you have far more travel and packing optio…

Sealing one of our tipis or backpacking tents can be done quickly, effectively, and with little mess.Our seams are flat felled, meaning the fabric is folded over itself in a particular way before bein…

X-Pac™ fabric originates from the sailcloth industry, the same industry that developed Cuben and Spinnaker, among others. The need for huge yardages of ultralight, ultrastrong, waterproof fabric…

We aim to build the best backpacks in the world.  A result of this goal are periodic updates to our backpack lineup.  We're really excited about these changes and introductions.  They r…

It’s easy to be good at something you love. Passion drives action and persistence. Our passion is the outdoors.Nature itself and the active enjoyment of it calms troubled spirits and nurtures the so…

The frame height you need depends on torso length and expected loads. Torso LengthUp to 30 lbs30-50 lbsOver 50 lbs15-16”24"24"24 or 26"17-19”24 or 26"26"26 or 28"20”+26"26 or 28"28"The chart above ba…

"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was…

What makes the Divide the best ultralight backpack on the market? Comfort - our suspension rocks! Our Patented Articulating Frame paired with an articulating hipbelt that grips your body make o…

The Redcliff is a Seek Outside original.  Part tipi, part pyramid, and all versatility the Redcliff is big enough for families and car camping while being light enough for large groups to carr…

Here at Seek Outside one of our most frequent customer questions is "which of the four smaller shelters should I get if I'm going to use it for backpacking?"  It's a tough thing to answer, esp…

It's always a privilege to see the new uses customers find for our gear, things we never considered when we designed and built it.  Michael Fried's ambitious motorcycle and hiking trip through So…

Last week I wrote about a gear testing trip into the Escalante.  Today I'm back with the video report, as well as some thoughts about gear selection and trip planning for a backpacking in the…

Last week at SHOT I had a number of conversations about how an adult who had never hunted might go about learning.  A shooting, hunting, and outdoor trade show might seem like an odd place for su…

In winter the canyons of the Colorado Plateau exist in a delicate no man's land, between the gentleness of the proper deserts to the south and west, and the undisguised harshness of the high mounta…

SHOT show. Vegas.  As a company that specializes in gear which allows people to get away from other people in as much ease and comfort as possible, there's a not inconsiderable irony in atten…

Packing food for a long backpacking trip is much like backpacking itself; the rules are few and simple, but their implementation can be endlessly nuanced.  What follows are the two rules of backp…

In most of our daily lives we've tamed the modern world pretty well; unless you live in a yurt in Wyoming, or the Yukon generally, it's fairly rare that the world just slams on the brakes and says…