Camping

Travel app Sēkr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age

Consumers spent more than $8.5 billion in 2020 on camping reservations across the U.S., but the camping industry itself has yet to be fully digitized. Today, reserving a space at some campgrounds, bo

Gift Guide: Camping gear you won’t regret buying

Buying camping gear is all about making tradeoffs. Lightweight backpacking gear may be perfect for trips where you carry everything with you but might not be quite as sturdy as the heavier options. Li

Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era

After months of shelter-in-place orders, widespread shutdowns and physical distancing, outdoors became the only location for safe socializing.

Gift Guide: Camping and backpacking gear that the outdoors lover in your life really wants

Whether it’s a fun day hike, a car camping excursion or a multi-day backcountry backpacking trip, there’s plenty of great camping and hiking gear that can make life easier for the outdoors person

Road trippers can rejoice as RVshare raises over $100 million to grow its RV rental business

As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV

Andreessen Horowitz values camping business Hipcamp at $127M

Hipcamp raises $25 million Series B to take its campsite booking service global.

This 3D-printed camp stove is extra-efficient and wind-resistant

I love camping, but there's always an awkward period when you've left the tent but haven't yet created coffee that I hate camping. It's hard not to watch the pot not boil and not want to just go back

Tentrr is turning private land into glampgrounds, with the help of VCs

If you’ve ever gone camping and found yourself thinking it kind of sucks, likely because you’re too close to other campers, you might be interested to learn about Tentrr, a three-year-old,

The Outdoor Exchange Is Crowdfunding A Subscription-Based Lending Service For Outdoor Gear

Being an outdoor enthusiast can be expensive these days. With camping equipment, kayaks, binoculars, fishing gear, and of course, Dropcams to record your sweet bike stunts, the costs can really add u

SteriPEN Sidewinder: Crank-Powered UV Water Sterilizer

There a number of ways to sterilize your water when you’re camping, traveling, or just feel like making sure. Boiling generally does the trick, but if you don’t have the time to set up the

DIY: Stereo Cooler

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SC10.jpg" />Here's a clever yet simple DIY project for you, just in time for the weekend. You could probably even through this thing toge

JakPak converts from jacket to emergency shelter

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/jakpak-1.jpg" />Assuming this is durable, this is just the type of emergency shelter I could see using myself. The JakPak turns from an a

Brunton's Flip N' Drip makes camping more coffee-tastic

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/flip_n_drip.jpg" alt="Flip-N-Drip" />If you find yourself in the overlapping section of the Venn diagram containing people who like camping a

Wearable sleeping bag puts Snuggie to shame

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/31pdogellel-ss500.jpg">Consider this a Snuggie for a true outdoorsman. The Lippi Selk’bag is basically a sleeping bag/jumpsuit hybrid m

Not iPhone: Cardboard toilet doubles as a sturdy stool

Here’s a cardboard toilet. It’s called the Shit Box. I’m happy that it appears to only be available in the UK, brought to you by The Brown Corporation (get it?). The outfit’s tagline is “a s

Great Outdoors: Must-Have Camping Gear

Every once in awhile, we here like to step outside of the CrunchGear Mansion. And, when we’re feeling particularly frisky, we’ve even been known to go camping. Of course, just because you&

Great Outdoors: Grilling for Geeks

Technology seems to improve rapidly as time goes by. Think back to fifteen years ago – ah yes, I can still remember my IBM PS/1. I was drawn to it by its sexy Windows 3.1 operating system and of all

Hippy Bath in a Bag

If you’re the “outdoorsy” type, then you’re probably not very bright. The idea of abandoning thousands of years of technology, industry, social evolution and hygiene to “

Sunsei Solar Chargers For Just About Everything

Growing up in the Northwest I was surrounded by trees, mountains, rivers (the non-toxic kind) and a lawn to mow every week. You could call me a treehugger or just a proponent for a greener planet and

Gather Round The Campfire

Come children, gather round the campfire so we can roast s’mores, tell scary stories and sing kumbaya.
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