Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2019
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
BLISTER Editors Sam Shaheen and Luke Koppa discuss their time this week at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, including mind-boggling new technologies like titanium-coated fibres; inventive sustainability stories involving recycled medical supplies; and noteworthy trends — both good and bad.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Rumpl Puffy Blankets (1:08)
- Gore-Tex Infinium Fibers (3:08)
- Topo Designs’ new apparel & packs (6:37)
- Mystery Ranch Skyline 23 Pack (9:11)
- Sunski Sunglasses (10:40)
- Patagonia Storm Racer Shell (12:35)
- Rab Mythic Ultra sleeping bags (14:34)
- New Gore-Tex Paclite Plus (17:53)
- Black Diamond Z4 Cams (20:02)
- Saola Shoes (23:05)
- Notable trends (26:16)
- Products we wanted to steal (29:34)
- Weirdest / most alarming booths (30:55)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Sam Shaheen, a senior editor at Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.0 | Today, I sit down with Blister's managing editor, Luke Kappa, to debrief our last few days exploring |
| 0:22.2 | the show floor at this year's outdoor retailer's summer market. As always, outdoor retailer |
| 0:27.5 | didn't disappoint, and there are tons of cool new products to talk about, including some |
| 0:31.4 | mind-boggling new technology, inventive sustainability stories, and some wacky trends as well. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, Luke and I are here in Denver. Just got off the show floor at outdoor retailer summer market 2019 and had a hectic couple days checking out a whole bunch of new gear for 2020. |
| 0:56.2 | And you guys are going to be privy to our debrief. |
| 0:59.8 | These episodes are always fun to do, and we've got a lot of cool stuff to talk about. |
| 1:03.6 | So I think we can just sort of dive right in. |
| 1:05.9 | Luke, do you want to start us off with something you're interested in? |
| 1:08.4 | Sure. |
| 1:09.8 | Well, we'll discuss this later, but sustainability |
| 1:12.1 | was an overwhelming theme this year, I think. And one of the first brands I met with was Rumpel, |
| 1:19.1 | who's famous for their puffy kind of camping blankets. And now, I guess, starting in spring |
| 1:26.6 | 2020, all of their kind of puffy-style will have 100% post-consumer recycled content in the fill for the synthetic ones and the face fabric. |
| 1:36.8 | They're also coming out with a new version of the blanket that slots between like their classic traditional puffy, which is kind of like a stiffer, not all that |
| 1:45.2 | light, but on the cheaper end, it's $99 for the small side. And then they have a down version |
| 1:49.9 | that's $200. And now they're making a new version with a synthetic fill that I think you and I |
| 1:55.6 | were both impressed. It feels a lot like down. It's super soft, very light, packs down almost as small as their down |
| 2:01.5 | blanket, but you don't have to worry about getting it wet and it's 150, I think, for the small |
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