As you may have noticed, CiloGear can’t afford much traditional marketing. Sure, we’ve got a quarter page ad in the back of Climbing magazine every issue. But come on, how many packs sold because of that quarter page? CiloGear is dependent on the word-of-mouth marketing done by climbers around the campfire or post-climb pint of beer. Cilogear’s legion [...]
For Cilogear owners who never fight through manzanita, scrub oak, slide alder, devil’s club, or other kinds of gear (and morale)-destroying brush: where the heck are you climbing, and can we go there too? But to the folks who endure days of schwacking through this stuff with a fully-loaded pack, we’ve been there and we [...]
Alaska, and the Ruth Gorge in particular, contain some of the finest terrain on earth for cutting-edge Alpinism. And as this season rolls around, more Cilogear packs than ever will make an appearance on Alaska’s high peaks. In 2008, Alpinist featured nearly a dozen separate newswire entries featuring our packs in Alaska, and the favorite [...]
It’s that time of year again. The leaves are emerging, the ground is thawing, and climbers’ eyes have turned northward to the land of the midnight sun. This is the season when folks start getting excited for Alaska trips, and this excitement manifests itself as a large number of Denali-themed emails in our inbox. For [...]
Cilogear pack owners definitely know how to put their bags through some serious punishment. From marathon third-world bus trips to frightening whippers directly onto a pack hanging at the belay, our bags have seen it all. Yet even through all these trials, perhaps the most common type of damage to a pack comes from a [...]
December 11, 2008 – 1:33 pm
Last summer I was introduced to Graham, head of CiloGear, at the Outdoor Retailer show in Utah. We had spoken earlier, and he was kind enough to loan me one of the CiloGear’s swanky new packs to test out on some upcoming routes. Graham had produced a developmental model of a 30L bag, and I [...]
