Greetings Adventurers!

The Vargo  Titanium BOT has been a favorite within the outdoor community for a few years.

Recently the folks over at Massdrop worked with Vargo Outdoors to introduce a smaller version of the Titanium BOT.

This new, exclusive to Massdrop, Titanium BOT is a 700ml pot, with handles and a lid, and is called the “BOT 700“.

While not all that much lighter in weight than it’s big brother, the BOT 700 makes for an ideal solo hikers all-in-one storage container, cooking pot, water carrier, and anything else that you might want to put into it, and not have it leak out all the goodies inside.

Specs/About:

The weight of the pot & lid is 126 grams (4.44 ounces), with the lid hitting the scale at 41 grams and the pot itself at 85 grams.

It has a total capacity of 700 ml (24oz) and is 10.5 cm (4.1 inches) in diameter.

The screw top lid can be turned upside down and used as a lid while cooking — doing this is important because there is a silicone o-ring on the bottom of the lid (which, duh, makes it watertight) and you want to make sure that the silicone o-ring does not come into contact with the fuel flames. So, a good idea if you are using wood for fuel is to probably not use the lid at all.

Thoughts:

When I first heard about this being brought to market my comment was something along the lines of “sounds like a great way for long distance hikers to be able to reduce the amount of containers that they carry – the all typical Glad/Ziplock plastic bottles for doing cold soaking, and a cooking pot.”

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Greeting Adventurers!

I am now super happy to announce that the Black Rock Gear Synthetic Beanie is available to buy!

In September of 2015 a conversation between myself and Evan, the owner of Black Rock Gear, started happening about the possibilities of him and I working together to bring to market a synthetic version of the crazy popular Black Rock Gear Down Beanie.

The concept was simple:

keep everything that is awesome about the animal down version of the BRG beanie, but introduce a synthetic insulation version.

The “why?” is simple too:

1. it would allow BRG to have another product in their catalog
2. because some adventurers find themselves in situations where synthetic gear is of additional benefit
3. because some folks have either medical and/or ethical issues regarding animal down products
4. because, well, I wanted one as I have switched to using synthetic gear (with exception of feathered friends down booties) and while Evan was able and willing to make a one-off for me, when I posted photos of it, a fair amount of people showed interest in buying one – enough so that Evan/BRG felt it was worth try to bring to market an initial production run of synthetic beanies.

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