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How to Link Trekking Poles For Your Shelter One of the ways ultralight and lightweight backpackers and hunters save weight is by using trekking poles to  support tarps and tents and thereby getti…

Backpack Hunting Meat Care I sat next to my bull, serene and peaceful, watching the early morning light glint off the frost in the aspens. The pungent musk of the bull hung in the thin mountain air, c…

What's New - Seek Outside 2019 At Seek Outside we don't want to bring a new product to market unless we feel it has some compelling advantages over other products on the market, or compliments our cur…

How to Reduce Tent Condensation Nobody likes tent condensation, however every tent gets condensation in the right conditions. The difference is simply how much condensation and do you notice the conde…

How to Stake a Tent in Frozen Ground Staking a tent in frozen ground can be a challenge. Usually, regular tent stakes won't work, or work very well at a minimum. The chances are, some will get bent or…

Mistakes happen and when they happen at Seek Outside it can save you some cash! A Factory Blemished shelter or backpack from SO is a product that comes through one of our inspection points and we find…

Before having kids, one of my favorite past times was packing up the Jeep with the bare minimum and heading out to Buckhorn Lakes in Colorado with my husband. We were free to bring a couple blankets,…

Western big game hunters are masochists. No other sport combines such effort and exhaustion in pursuit of an animal - that is in exponentially better shape than you - with the foreboding certain…

As if organizing your tags, scouting locations, preparing your gear, and physical conditioning wasn’t enough, meal planning for your backcountry hunts can add an additional layer of complication…

Want to cut your backpack hunting weight? Don’t know where to start? Big game hunting while living out of a backpack is an elite (crazy) sport, and the weight you carry is critical.  This…

Did you recently draw a western United States hunting tag? Whether you knew you were going to draw or not you are probably now looking for a few extra pieces of gear to throw into your kit or build a…

Faces of Seek Outside: Father’s Day Tribute Kevin Timm, President of Seek Outside, has worn many hats. Lead Guitarist in a rock band, Waiter, and Network Security Engineer being a few, but when…

Dad jokes can either make you laugh or cringe. If you have a teller of dad jokes in your life, you may be looking for a gift as rad as your dad! Check out our Father's Day Gift guide! Warning: All pun…

The new Goshawk is a pack that I would say is “sitting nicely in the sweet spot”. It has enough capacity (4800 Cubic Inches) to stuff a week’s worth of adventure gear in while remain…

Joe at Seek Outside enjoys fly fishing, mountain biking, backpacking, hunting, photography, hiking, painting and gazing at the gorgeous Colorado night sky. No, this isn’t a dating advertisement,…

“Desert Alpinism” is a term coined by Seek Outside’s Lacie Jurado. It entails climbing desert towers in Western Colorado’s Colorado National Monument while scoping out th…

Who needs the Brooks? Hunters who want one backpack to do everything. The Brooks covers all trips from dayhunt to multi-week backpack sheep hunt, or packrafters on long unsupported expeditions. (See…

A nest is a fine mesh inner tent with a zippered door and a waterproof bathtub floor. All of our shelters have nests that will fit in them. Nests provide protection from crawling or flying insects, an…