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Camping, survival, and off-grid gear
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items Gear for camping trips, power outages, and getting the hell off-grid. Knives, water filters, freeze-dried food, solar power, shelter, and the stuff you want in the Jeep when the lights go out or the trail runs out. Built from brands that actually sta...
Pliers, blades, screwdrivers, and a can opener in one tool that lives in a glovebox or a pack and never complains. A solid everyday multi-tool without the big-name markup.
Gerber Suspension-NXT Multi-Tool
A full-tang fixed blade with a sheath you can mount a bunch of ways. Built for batoning wood, cutting cord, and general camp work where a folder just isn't enough knife.
Gerber StrongArm Fixed Blade Knife
A bucket of freeze-dried meals with a long shelf life. Throw it in the closet for power outages and storms, or grab a few pouches for a camping weekend. Just add boiling water.
Mountain House Classic Bucket
The classic trail dinner. Pour boiling water straight in the pouch, wait, eat, no dishes. Grab a few to try before you commit to a whole bucket.
Mountain House Beef Stroganoff with Noodles
Fill it from a creek, press down, drink. It's a purifier, not just a filter, so it handles viruses too, which matters if you're traveling or the tap water goes bad after a storm.
GRAYL GeoPress Ti Water Purifier
Cheap, tiny, and weighs next to nothing. Toss one in every go-bag, glovebox, and day pack so you always have a way to drink from a stream if things go sideways.
LifeStraw Personal Water Filter
A water bottle with the filter built in. Fill it from a lake or a sketchy campground spigot and drink through the straw. Easy win for hikes and road trips.
LifeStraw Go Water Filter Bottle
A big battery box that runs a fridge, CPAP, lights, and phones when the power's out, or powers camp for a long weekend. Pair it with solar panels and you're basically your own utility company.
Goal Zero Yeti 1500X Power Station
A rechargeable lantern with a hand crank backup and a USB port to top off your phone. Lights up a whole campsite or a dark kitchen during an outage.
Goal Zero Lighthouse 600 Lantern
A mid-size power station that fits behind the seat of a Wrangler. Runs a camp fridge, charges laptops and phones, and keeps the essentials going through a blackout.
Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 Power Station
A folding solar panel that recharges a Jackery power station off the grid. Set it out at camp or on the back deck during a long outage and you're making your own power.
Jackery SolarSaga 100 Air Solar Panel
Burns sticks and twigs instead of fuel canisters, and turns the heat into electricity to charge your phone. No gas to run out of, which is the whole point when you're off-grid.
BioLite CampStove 2+
A slim, comfortable headlamp that charges over USB, so no hunting for AAAs in the dark. Good for night hikes, setting up camp late, or fumbling around the breaker box.
BioLite Rechargeable HeadLamp
A bright, waterproof headlamp that runs on regular AAAs, so you can keep spares in the Jeep and never wait on a charge. Has a red light mode that won't blind everybody at camp.
Black Diamond Spot 400 Headlamp
A tiny canister stove with push-button ignition that folds down to fit in your cook pot. Coffee in the morning, dinner at night, boil water for a Mountain House pouch in a couple minutes.
Snow Peak GigaPower Stove 2.0
A double-wall titanium mug that keeps coffee hot and weighs almost nothing. The kind of camp gear that lasts basically forever.
Snow Peak Ti-Double 450 Mug
A compact smokeless fire pit that's light enough to toss in the back of the Jeep for a campsite or tailgate. Way less smoke in your face than a regular fire ring.
Solo Stove Ranger 2.0 Fire Pit
An inflatable pad that packs down to the size of a water bottle and keeps you off the cold, rocky ground. A big upgrade over a foam pad without spending a fortune.
Klymit Static V Sleeping Pad
A multi-day backpacking pack known for its suspended mesh back that keeps air moving so you're not soaked in sweat. Big enough for a few nights out or a serious bug-out bag.
Osprey Atmos AG 65 Backpack
A simple 20-liter daypack for park hikes and day trips. Room for water, layers, snacks, and a first aid kit without lugging a full pack around.
Osprey Daylite Plus Daypack
A roomy car-camping tent with a big front vestibule you can actually stand up in. For campground weekends where the Jeep's parked right next to the site and nobody wants to sleep crammed.
The North Face Wawona 6 Tent
A 20-degree synthetic bag that handles chilly spring and fall nights in the Smokies. Synthetic fill keeps insulating even if it gets damp, which beats down for car camping.
The North Face Wasatch Pro 20 Sleeping Bag
A trail first aid kit organized by injury type, so you're not digging through a pile of bandages when someone's bleeding. Lives in the daypack, the Jeep, or both.
Adventure Medical Kits Mountain Series Hiker Kit
A heat-reflective emergency sleeping sack that packs down smaller than a soda can. Toss one in every pack and vehicle. If you get stuck out overnight or the car breaks down in winter, you'll be damn glad it's there.
SOL Emergency Bivvy
A machete with a saw back on the spine for clearing brush, cutting limbs, and making firewood. Good one to keep strapped in the Jeep for trail work and storm cleanup.
Gerber Gator Machete