Gear Review: GSI Outdoors nForm Nesting Mug and Bowl

The nForm nesting mug and bowl from GSI Outdoors

Outbreak psp is an ingenious cookware system that provides an ultralight and space efficient solution, perfect for camping and backpacking when pack space is at a premium. It’s also not expensive, costing under $9, making it a great value if you’re trying to stretch your money this year.

The mug and bowl can be used separately or together to form an insulated container for drinking hot cocoa or soup. I consider an insulated mug to be essential, particularly in winter, when I want to sip hot chocolate while I’m melting snow at night for drinking water. The sip lid is extra useful in this situation for keeping the contents from spilling and adding more insulation.

Weighing just 3.3 oz and holding 14 oz of liquid, the mug and bowl are a lot lighter, hold more liquid, and are better insulators than the comparable insulated titanium mugs (which are also 5X as expensive) that I own today.

But while the benefits of this product are impressive for the solo hiker, I think they’re even more impressive if you are hiking in a group because multiple nesting mugs and bowls can themselves nest in a larger cook pot, using a lot less space in your pack.

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This gear review was contributed to TheGearHouse by Philip Werner who regularly blogs and reviews more gear at his website, SectionHiker. If you’re interested in being a gear reviewer for TheGearHouse, feel free to contact us

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Chris 22 April 2009 Ultralight Gear Bowl, GSI Outdoors, Lightweight mug, Mug, Nesting Mug, nForm Nesting Mug 1 Comment

Adventure Medical Kits Spark-Lite Firestarter and Tinder Quik Video Review

I love firestarters. Not as much as the American Bushman does, but I do love them. So when I got the chance to get my hands on a small lot of the Adventure Medical Kit Spark-Lite Firestarter and Tinder Quik, I knew I had to jump on it. So I did, and now I have them in stock and they are on TheGearHouse store

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Scream 3 video This is a great little firestarter that weighs less than an ounce and produces a nice set of sparks, while using only one hand. I’ve put together a video for the full review and to so show how it works but thought I’d mention it real quick too. Within the package, you get the firestarter as well as a little baggie of Tinder-Quik. These are sort of like a braided rope but I’m not sure what the actual material is. Anyway, you get a baggie of 4 of them. They are reusable and they will even light when wet which is extremely important when you are in a survival situation and need to get a fire going. Each little piece, which are about an inch long, will burn for 2-3 minutes.

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Here’s my video review of the Adventure Medical Kits Spark-Lite Firestarter and Tinder-Quik.

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Chris 13 April 2009 Videos adventure medical kits, AMK, Emergency Preparedness, Firestarters, Firesteels, Gear Reviews, Reviews, Spark-Lite, survival, Tinder Quik, Videos 1 Comment

Follow 15 Outdoor Gear Manufacturers on Twitter

As the popularity of micro-blogging platform Twitter grows, we’re starting to see a lot of the major brands take advantage of the site. Brands such as Skittles, Comcast, Dell, and many others are utilizing the service to reach their customers, put out sales, and just get general feedback from the people using their products.

As the outdoor industry catches onto the trend, we are also seeing a lot more outdoor gear manufacturers using Twitter. Here is a list of the ones that I have come across, please ass any others in the comments so that they can be added to the list!

Again, if you know of ones that we missed, please leave comments below with links to their Twitter accounts so that we can update the list!

Chris 8 April 2009 News Gear Manufacturers, Twitter 2 Comments

How To Properly Fit an Internal Frame Backpack

I was just flipping through the ALPS Mountaineering website and came across an extensive pack fitting guide that they put on the website for internal frames. If you are looking for information on how to fit a backpack or how to properly adjust/fit an internal frame pack, then you should check out these steps.