Posted: 3/13/2013 9:26:42 PM EDT
I used to love thumbing through this old newsprint backpacking and hiking catalog when I was a young boyscout. I would spend endless hours putting together just the right gear for the perfect trip. It was what got me started into prepping. I feel ashamed I cant remember the name of it.
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When I was a kid, I used to think that Campmor stuff was cheap shit because of the quality of their catalog. Back then, for instance, Eddie Bauer was a huge supplier of outdoor and mountaineering gear,and the touted their goose down as being the finest available (we are talking early-1970's). Since them they've sold out and all they sell is shit. The outdoor-related catalogs came in a full-color and glossy stock, giving the illusion of quality to their products, but soon I began to understand that the Campmor stuff was pretty good.
I dont know why I said this. Maybe its because you cant judge a book by its cover? Life's lessons. 
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and LLBean did not sell to yuppies..it was real stuff Still decent stuff for the most part. Banana Republic used to be safari gear too. Heck, if you go back far enough Abercrombie & Fitch used to be hunting/outdoor gear I was just going to mention that OLD A&F catalogs are awesome, they used to be a real outfitter. I realize that I seem to be recommending this firm rather extensively, but it cannot be helped. It is not because I know no others, for naturally I have been purchasing sporting goods and supplies in a great many places and for a good many years. Nor do I recommend everything they make. Only along some lines they have carried practical ideas to their logical conclusion. The Abercrombie & Fitch balloon silk tents, food bags, pack harness, aluminum alloys, and reflector ovens completely fill the bill. And as they cannot be procured elsewhere, I must perhaps seem unduly to advertise this one firm. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32950/32950-h/32950-h.htm
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Still decent stuff for the most part. Banana Republic used to be safari gear too. Heck, if you go back far enough Abercrombie & Fitch used to be hunting/outdoor gear
And they sold Guns!!!! I passed on a abercrombie and fitch luger import. Still kicking myself for that one, they were asking whatever the going rate was at the time for a luger iirc $800. |
I'd say roughly 80% of my backpacking stuff came from them in the past 3 years. Good company, good prices.
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Still decent stuff for the most part. Banana Republic used to be safari gear too. Heck, if you go back far enough Abercrombie & Fitch used to be hunting/outdoor gear
And they sold Guns!!!! One of my fathers favorite "back in my day" stories concerns riding the subway from Queens with his shotgun in his lap, getting out in midtown Manhattan and walking over to Abercrombie and Fitch to have it repaired. 45th st and Madison Avenue. |
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and LLBean did not sell to yuppies..it was real stuff Still decent stuff for the most part. Banana Republic used to be safari gear too. Heck, if you go back far enough Abercrombie & Fitch used to be hunting/outdoor gear LLBean wool socks, (The green and gray one) are great. I can walk out in the garage in them in the winter and not feel the cold for several min. They have held up very well and the first few pairs that I got are at least three years old and have no holes although they are getting a little thin. |