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Garage Grown Gear Review:
Find Out How GGG
Can Help You On Any Trail

by Diane Spicer

Meet Hiking For Her's Diane

This Garage Grown Gear review is being written because I want you to find out about what's fresh and new in our hiking community.

No one asked me to write this review.

I can say exactly what I know to be true, because all reviews on this website are unpaid and unbiased.

I've decided to be a Garage Grown Gear affiliate because I really like the way they roll. Keep reading for details.

• If you purchase from GGG through this website, HFH receives a small percentage but this costs you nothing extra.
• Only the best of the best are chosen as HFH affiliates.

Garage Grown Gear review:
the details

So what is Garage Grown Gear?

GGG is a collection of small, startup and cottage outdoor brands featuring lightweight gear, food and clothing.

It sprang into life in 2014, a collaborative effort from the very first day.

GGG offers a great way to think about what they do: the "farm to table" approach to outdoor gear and food.

And they do it by focusing on small businesses.

That is a win-win situation, my virtual hiking friend.

• You get great new products for your trail adventures that feature a lot of innovation and attention to details. 
• The companies get exposure and cash to fuel their growth and sustain their worthy efforts.

You can feel great about shopping at Garage Grown Gear! You're supporting innovation and creativity with each purchase.

What Garage Grown Gear
offers hikers

Any hiker welcomes a chance to lighten up the load, so you'll appreciate Garage Grown Gear's emphasis on ultralight hiking.

Even if you don't identify with the UL label, you can appreciate what awaits you at GGG.

We'll take it in this order, or use these links to take a shortcut:

• backpacking gear
• backpacking food and trail snacks
• female hiker must haves
• snowshoes
• Hiking For Her favorites

Garage Grown Gear review:
examples of great outdoor products
for backpackers

Carrying less weight as a hiker makes good sense, whether you're a twenty something who wants to go fast and light or an elder hiker with tender knees.

Tents and shelters

Six Moon Designs in Beaverton, OR offers a backpacker so many lightweight shelter options, at various price points.

Solo backpackers will appreciate the features of this lightweight shelter with a low hexagonal shape, the Lunar Solo.

Choose between aluminum (cheaper) and carbon fiber (lighter but a bit more money) poles to pitch this little beauty.

How to sleep well inside your shelter

If you want to shed ounces of weight but not sacrifice your warmth and comfort at night, consider the snuggly lightweight backpacking quilts made by Enlightened Equipment in Winona, MN.

Here's a versatile option:

Not sure which choice is right for your plans?

Here are detailed tips for you to make a good decision:

• sleeping bag or quilt?
• why use a quilt?
• best sleeping bags

Garage Grown Gear review:
good trail food choices

Hikers are always interested in new trail food choices.

• In that regard, we are like our canine trail companions.

This Garage Grown Gear review introduces you to a few companies who do things right to keep your taste buds amused and your muscled fueled up.

Best backpacking meals

Does your palate crave a little something different after all these years on the trail?

Or are you a newbie who isn't sure what a good backpacking meal looks like?

Either way, Good To Go meals are there for you!

Here are just two tempting options for single serving backpacking dinners:

For lots more backpacking food options, read these Hiking For Her articles:

• best backpacking food
• satisfying food for backpackers

Best hiking snacks

Kate's Real Food is exactly that: high quality combinations of fast energy from carbohydrates, balanced with protein in tasty and convenient bars.

These aren't the usual icky sweet "energy" bars.

No weird chemicals or fillers to slow you down or make you thirsty.

And their flavor profiles are amazing!

This combo pack gives you lots to choose from on your next hike:

TIP:

As a beginner hiker, a combo pack of trail food saves you money and allows your palate to experiment.

Store these bars in the freezer and you'll always have a snack handy when you head out to the trailhead.

Garage Grown Gear review:
products for female hikers

More hygiene tips for women hikers here.

I've hiked with a lot of people over my 50+ year hiking career, so I feel justified in sharing an observation:

female hikers suffer more from dry skin a few days into a backpacking trip compared to male hikers. 

Garage Grown Gear review:
conclusions you can use

I want to put one thing right out there for you.

Small companies can't hold a deep inventory. 

• Being on the back order list might frustrate you, so be proactive with your purchases.
• When you see it, and it fits your hiking requirements, order it!

Just a little nibble here,
lots more to come

This is only a small sample of the marvelous and innovative companies gathered together in Garage Grown Gear.

You won't see this hiking and backpacking stuff in the big box stores.

I'll be rotating through all of the GGG companies on this page.

• Check back to discover what's highlighted and brand new in this Garage Grown Gear review!
• And check my latest deals for hikers page, I always have Garage Grown Gear on it.
  

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