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The Hilleberg StoryHilleberg is a well established tent manufacturer, renowned for quality and durability across the world. Here at Ultralight Outdoor Gear we have had the pleasure of selling and reviewing Hilleberg tents for a few years now and we have expanded the range of tents we stock each year. Hilleberg have been producing tents for well over 40 years now and their history and h …

Down is still the number one insulating material in the outdoor industry, offering the lightest warmth to weight ratio and unrivaled packability. Therefore, a down jacket will provide exceptional warmth but won't weigh you or your pack down. Choosing a down jacket depends on how warm you need it to be and what features you need it to have.How Warm Should It Be?Our lightest down jackets …

If you haven't come across Nemo yet we think you'll find these pages inspiring, we love the brand and we love the Nemo people we've met. Their products work well and are well designed with a focus on comfort and low weight, employing design principles to improve products while adding only a minimal amount of extra weight they are one of our key suppliers.Nemo people love the outdoors - …

What makes the magic happen?The passion all starts with our small team of adventurers, inventors, surfers, contrarians, and jokesters. That’s NEMO in a nutshell — a small band of people who decided against a conventional job to work toward a mission to bring the best gear to adventurers around the world. And we do it together, each step of the way. Meet the team.Cam BrensingerCEO & F …

We Won't Bring Anything to Market That Doesn't Offer a Better ExperienceAt NEMO, we believe the world has enough “stuff,” and we’re not interested in bringing more things into the world. What we obsess over instead is solving the real-world challenges of adventurers and outdoorists. Our process starts outside, in the mountains, under the stars, and off the beaten path. Our own observatio …

NEMO Equipment 2002Cam Brensinger incorporated NEMO Equipment on April 24, 2002 with the intention of bringing high-level design and engineering to the outdoor industry. Only two months later, following his graduation, Cam moved NEMO into an historic mill in Nashua, NH. A quick drive from both New Hampshire’s White Mountains and the great design and business resources available from co …

We love our planet and the places we adventure.At NEMO we believe being a sustainable business is about so much more than checking a box. We don’t sweep this task aside to a “committee” so everyone else can get on with their work.Rather, every single person who joins our team is deeply motivated to use NEMO and their own energy to make the world a better place — to minimize each of our …

LOWE ALPINE AEON 27 REVIEWThe new Aeon Range is Lowe Alpine's answer to lightweight daypacks. The Aeon 27 is a generous size and is perfect for a range of activities from days out in the hills to travelling around the city. I used the pack for a week's adventuring around Italy and will continue to use on day trips in the hills.The AirContour back system offers superb breathability and the lightwei …

Hailing from the small town of Örnsköldsvik in Sweden, a place where mountains and forest meet the sea, Fjällräven is an outdoor clothing and equipment company that’s committed to making nature more accessible. In true Swedish style, we focus on simplicity and practicality, and we have the utmost respect for the environment. This is what they do: Develop functiona …

What is Hydrostatic Head?Hydrostatic Head (HH) is a way of measuring how waterproof a fabric is. The resulting measurement in millimetres relates to how high a column of water standing on the fabric would need to be before the water would penetrate the fabric. For the best fabrics results can be as high as 30,000mm, i.e. 30 metres high, before it would penetrate the fabric.For the best fabrics res …

Design room to manufacturing floorTherm-a-Rest started out by making camping mattresses in their hometown of Seattle in 1972 and have always stuck by their philosophy 'to make what we sell'. They embodied this philosophy by acquiring their own manufacturing facilities and even built their own machines to create some of the worlds most comfortable camping mattresses.But when you create …

We engineer our Yellow Label tents principally to be lightweight. Intended for use in warmer climates and in snow-free conditions, these models have inner tents with large mesh panels which cannot be covered, and shorter outer tent walls. This ensures they have superb warm-weather venting, but can also make them feel cold in cooler conditions. Yellow Label models are perfect for long or short …