My husband and I’ve shared an historical Mountain Hardwear expedition duffel for years (similar to this one) to maintain our snowboarding, browsing, and tenting gear collectively within the automotive. With the arrival of our two youngsters, we wanted one other one to haul their tiny tenting chairs, tiny sleeping baggage, and three thousand stuffed animals.
Enter OnSight’s Tarmac duffel. It is available in sizes starting from a 50-liter to a 140-liter measurement. The 100-liter model can match the whole lot that my 4-person household wants for shelter, like a stand-up tent, vestibule, sleeping pads, and sleeping baggage.
It’s gentle—underneath three kilos for the 50-liter model—and has bolstered seams, a yawning D-shaped opening, comfy padded seize handles, and fitted, padded backpack straps. I’m 5’2” and I can cinch the backpack straps tight sufficient for me to put on it comfortably whereas mountaineering.
Most importantly, the bag can also be environmentally-friendly. It’s constituted of Cotec EPO, which is a tarpaulin materials that’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-free. When it’s inhaled as a gasoline—largely through the manufacturing course of—PVC can have harmful side effects that embrace liver, lung, and kidney harm.
“PVC is not something we’re not comfortable having in our product or in our supply chain,” mentioned Ourum. “When [Cotec EPO] is combusted, it’s entirely inert and non-toxic. Even if you were to put flame to it, it wouldn’t create any toxic materials.”
Because it’s waterproof and the zippers are coated, I’ve been utilizing it as a paddle-packing dry bag. I’ve loaded it up in canoes and on paddleboards, and all our gear—together with our full-sized pillows—has stayed dry. It can even stand up to fairly excessive temperature environments; the tarpaulin is designed to remain versatile even round -40 levels Celsius, so I’m wanting ahead to loading it up with snowboarding gear as soon as the climate turns.
It’s fairly sturdy, too. I’ve solely taken ours out on two tenting journeys to this point, however to this point it’s withstood fairly harsh remedy. “That’s the most sustainable thing you can do, is to build a bag that will really last,” mentioned Ourom.
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