Tag: Gear History

GoLite launched with Ray Jardine’s designs and defined ultralight backpacking. Then it went bankrupt. Here’s what happened, and what survived.

The Svea 123 is a compact brass backpacking stove from 1955, still made today and still worth carrying.

Somewhere right now there is a thirty-year-old backpack going up a mountain. Faded, a little sun-rotted at the lid,…