by Garrett Martin | Sep 3, 2025 | Mixed Bag
How to Choose Your Backpacking Gear: Pt.2 Sleep Systems + Clothing When you’re heading into the backcountry, every ounce of gear you bring plays a role in your comfort, safety, and overall experience. In Part One of this series, we broke down two of the biggest...
by Garrett Martin | Aug 27, 2025 | How to Outdoors
How To Choose Your Gear: Packing for the long haul pt.1 Backpack and Shelter While you’re out on a backpacking trip of any length, all your gear will literally be your home, so it’s important to choose wisely. It can be hard to decipher between all the different...
by Garrett Martin | Aug 19, 2025 | Mixed Bag
Aging into Ultralight: Why Older Backpackers Should Rethink Their Gear and Embrace the UL Life Garrett’s preface: Although this article targets an aging enthusiast it’s not to say ultralight backpacking only benefits older people or that older people aren’t spry...
by Garrett Martin | Aug 13, 2025 | Mixed Bag
ULA 22L Everyday Carry Pack the Cicada Overview For the past 5 years we’ve gotten countless customer customization requests from new materials, new features, and even some sporadic one-off designs. In order to step off of this perpetual motion machine of incredible...
by Garrett Martin | Aug 6, 2025 | Mixed Bag
First Look: 22L ULA-Equipment Cicada Pack After 20+ years building some of the most trusted ultralight packs on the trail, we’ve taken that same reliability and reimagined it for modern motion: commuting, travel, work-from-anywhere. If you’ve seen our take on EDC in...