IT’S IN THE BAG Clockwise from top left: Xscape Pods come with all you need in the wild; Osprey’s Farpoint Travel Pack 55; Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Topo Luxe Sleeping Pad; Agnes Salt Creek SL3 tent; Arrive Outdoors offers full kits and a la carte options
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For fairweather campers, buying—not to mention storing and maintaining—a suite of camping gear for those two glorious weekends under the stars each year is a questionable investment. Rather than hitting up your more outdoorsy friends for loaner gear, look to outfitters like Arrive Outdoors and Xscape Pod, which offer online rentals and express delivery of high-end, fastidiously maintained backpacking and car-camping gear.
Arrive Outdoors focuses on dabblers “who may be considering a camping or ski trip for the first time and not be entirely sure what kind of gear they’ll need,” said founder Rachelle Snyder. Along with a la carte options, Arrive offers complete camping and backpacking sets for one, two or four people, delivered via FedEx. All of the gear in one of Arrive’s camping setups, including a Marmot Limestone tent, Nemo sleeping bags and Yeti cooler would set you back more than $1,000 retail, but can be had for $130 a day for four people. When you get home, shake it out and send it back with the prepaid shipping label.
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Xscape Pod’s model is similar: $229 gets a pair of backpackers a three-day rental, including Osprey 65-liter packs, Big Agnes tents and sleeping bags and MSR cooking gear. While backpacking-gear rentals made up just 10% of Xscape Pod’s business in 2019, that figure jumped to more than 50% this year, said CEO Nick Parrish: “We think this speaks to the desire to not only get outside, but to socially distance as much as possible.”
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Sometimes though, you want to be able to answer the call of the wild on the first ring; for that, it helps to have equipment that’s still useful when it’s not out in the woods.
Osprey’s Farpoint Travel Pack 55 ($180, osprey.com) combines a 40-liter backpack with sleeping pad straps and a removable 15-liter daypack, compact enough to be practical for year-round use.
Therm-a-Rest’s new NeoAir Topo Luxe Sleeping Pad (from $145, thermarest.com) clocks in at just under a pound and a half, but inflates to 4 inches thick—cushy enough to serve as an air mattress for unexpected guests, but insulated enough to keep you cozy outdoors, even when the ground turns cool. Anyone can easily carry Big Agnes’s simple, 5-pound, three-person, three-season Salt Creek SL3 tent ($350, bigagnes.com) on short backpacking treks, while occasional car campers can set it up without frustration.
And because one can’t live on campfire toasted marshmallows alone, consider the GasOne Spyder ($50, gasone.com), an 8,000 BTU single burner butane stove that folds down into a thermos-sized package. Deployed tentside, it treats you to morning coffee or an evening pot of chili. And given its stylish design (it comes in shades of orange or blue reminiscent of the classic Ford GT), you won’t hesitate to break it out back in civilization when your stove is full come Thanksgiving and you need a spare burner. Then you can regale your pod with tales of your camping adventures.
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