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"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…

Walking in the woods, on land open to all, is the quintessentially American activity. The most significant conservation victory of the past few years has been in the conversation about US publ…

A Little Bug Out during a snowstorm.  In spite of the high-humidity environment, condensation was not a problem here due to the consistent 50 mph winds.Condensation.  It is a fact of life in…

At Seek Outside we make a wide range of products, under one roof, for customers with a huge variety of passions, interests, and outdoor pursuits.  On any given day we'll get phone calls from h…

These are to scale drawings. Animated drawings are short youtube videos. This is a work in process. For reference bags are 6'5" and 30 inches wide at shoulders and represent a large 10 degree…

When we released it two years ago the BT-2 (Beyond Timberline, the red shelter below) was the smallest tipi on the market, both groundbreaking and under the radar.  Groundbreaking because it b…

Pyramid shelters (mids) have been a staple for weight and space conscious adventurers for a long time. The Chouinard Equipment mid of the 70s and 80s is just the most prominent and influential…

We recently had a chance to chat with mountain biker and film maker Matt Hunter about the Foodless Odyssey trip which involved hunting, gathering and fishing for food during a week long mountain bi…