Emerging Gear: Outdoor Products This Week

A peek at emerging products, culled from crowd-source sites like Kickstarter, PR campaigns, and industry scoops on the sometimes cutting-edge, sometimes quirky world of gear design.

woolrich speaker
canyoneering bag

Canyoneering Rope Kit

Maine-based Sterling Rope Company gets deeper into canyoneering with its CanyonLux rope and Blitz bag, shipping in 2017. The 8mm rope has a new kind of core using braided Spectra and a polypropylene inner core. The bag has a “stand-up and stay-open” design and fits up to 250 feet of rope.

state hydration pack
mainframe ventra
alite-camp-chair

Most-Cush Camp Chair

Synthetic-fill insulation and baffled nylon warm campers sitting on the Cozy Cover camp chair accessory from Alite Designs. We’ve tested and approve this model, part of a line of extras for mini, round-the-campfire chairs. The Cozy Cover costs $40 and is available now.

women hunting boot muck
led camping lights
luminox XCOR AUTOMATIC VALJOUX