Our Best Gear for Winter Camping
Gear up with everything you need to make your winter missions a success.
Your Pre-Season Backpacking Gear Checklist
You’re ready to hit the trail, but is your gear? Run through this list before packing up and heading out into the back of beyond!
How MSR’s Early Research on Climber Hydration Sparked a Revolution
And led to the development of MSR’s most famous invention.
Gear Archives: Trusted Source—The Evolution of the MiniWorks EX Microfilter
In 1991, MSR took the plunge into water products to answer the needs of backcountry travelers asking for more user-friendly and trustworthy solutions to gathering safe drinking water. One of these initial offerings was the MSR Dromedary™ Beverage Bag, a rugged, collapsible bag to tote your water as you roamed. The other was the now-legendary WaterWorks Total Filtration System—a highly engineered pump filter that was more effective than other filters of the day and so easy to use it changed how people filtered water. The MSR MiniWorks EX Microfilter is its evolutionary descendent and remains the world’s favorite backcountry filter for its plain and simple workhorse reliability. Four Filters Are Better The WaterWorks filtration system was built with four progressively finer filters that delivered pharmaceutically sterile water, without chemicals. The…
Paring it Down to the Essentials: A Guide’s Gear for a Three-Day Mountaineering Trip
As a guide with the American Alpine Institute on Mt. Baker, I often end up working with clients who try to bring all the appropriate gear but end up bringing just a tad more than necessary. In this post, I will talk about the gear I bring with me on a 3-Day Baker Skills and Climb trip and how I pared it down to its current amount. I hope this will help you on your fast-and-light adventures! 58 Mountaineering Essentials To start out, here’s a standard list of what I bring on a Baker 3-Day… Climbing gear: Crampons Harness Ice axe 1 ice screw 4 locking carabiners 6 non-locking carabiners 20-foot cordelette 2 double-length slings 2 pickets 1 rope Waist and foot prusiks Helmet Clothes: 1 pair soft shell pants…
A Look Inside MSR’s On-Site Tooling Shop
Go behind the scenes into the shop where we custom build the tools that create our Seattle-made products.
#48HourEpic Contest: MSR Employees’ Gear List
The fast and light gear that made their sufferfest a success.
FAQ: My cable is stuck in my MSR stove fuel line; how do I get it out?
Stuck cables happen. Here’s the trick to getting them out.
FAQ: My tent’s rainfly keeps flopping around. How do I tighten it up?
Our setup videos explain.