Gear Reviews

Camping Gear

Hefting a fully-loaded pack can be discouraging. Take advantage of today's ultralight gear whenever you can. For tents, I like the Firstlight and Hubba Hubba. The 15° down Helium hits the weight-warmth sweet spot. And be sure to check out the new Neoair pad.

Bivy Sacks

• Black Diamond Winter Bivy

Tents

• Brooks Range Rocket Tent
• Mountain Hardwear Skyledge 2.1
• Nemo Losi 2P
• MSR Carbon Reflex 2
• Black Diamond HiLight
• Black Diamond Lighthouse
• Black Diamond Firstlight
• Black Diamond Oneshot
• MSR Hubba Hubba
• North Face Roadrunner

Down Sleeping Bags

• Marmot Atom 40°
• Marmot Hydrogen 30°
• Marmot Helium 15°
• North Face Hot Tamale 15°
• Western Mountaineering Lynx MF -10°

Synthetic Sleeping Bags

• Eureka Casper 15°

Sleeping Pads

• Exped DownMat 7
• Exped Sim Comfort 10 DLX
• Thermarest DreamTime
• Thermarest Neoair
• Big Agnes Two Track
• Thermarest Prolite
• Thermarest Prolite Plus
• Thermarest Ridge Rest SOLite
• Thermarest Z-Lite

Stoves

• Jetboil Sol Ti
• MSR Reactor
• Snow Peak GigaPower
• Jetboil PCS
• Coleman F1 Exponent Ultralight

Tarps/Ground cloths

• Brooks Range UL Solo
• Space All-Weather Blanket

Winter Camping Gear

• Black Diamond Deploy Shovel
• Voile XLM
• Life-Link Snow Saw
• SMC Summit Snow Saw

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