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A couple of major engineering wins this week deserves

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Well we picked the name GearPods Frontier for our new multi-kit system after a brief impromptu contest on FaceBook. In this last post about Frontier you'll find annotated photos of the system (full details are available here). We also wanted to talk about personalization.
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Our new multi-kit system (MK-5, currently unnamed) due out later this week has a second theme: extended stay. We try to avoid putting numbers on our multi-kit systems, but if we did, GearPods Backcountry and GearPods Wilderness would probably fall into a 24-48 hour bracket. This new multi-kit system is more geared to 48-72 hours or even beyond. In our minds, this means adding a set of robust first-use tools (in particular for shelter construction and firewood gathering) and more consumables (sol… Continue

Next week we're introducing a new as-yet-unnamed multi-kit system (see us on FaceBook for a naming contest). Aside from being our most comprehensive kit to date, it has a few themes to it. It's shown here in olive drab and digital camo.
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With our Spring 2010 products, we're going to start making products available to retail stores. Here's a sneak peak at some of the packaging coming to a store near you. Not all of our products will be available to retail stores initially but that will change over time.
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