From The Trail

Where did you go? My partner and I took on the Timberline Trail, a 40 mile trip that circles Mt Hood in Oregon! This is Minimal Gear’s backyard trail and has been covered extensively in our trip reports already, but...
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Customer Support Coordinator Kate spent a week in Moab recently, which included a backpacking trip in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Parks. She graciously wrote up our very first trip report of 2024 to recap her trip! Where did...
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Monday April 22, 2024 is Earth Day, and Cnoc Outdoors - through Earth Day Oregon - is excited to team up with the Greater Hells Canyon Council (GHCC) for the fourth year in a row to raise awareness to their work, and funding to help...
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Lately, we have been getting an increasing number of inquiries questioning the connection of our products with nanoplatics or microplastics, asking if TPU is leaching like PET, etc. Here are some examples: "With recent proof that plastic bottles have us...
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Who are you? Give us some highlights from your past: I am Brett Swope, 27 year old father of 2 beautiful girls Aria (8), and Enora (1). I spent a lot of my young life in, or recovering from, foster care...
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